Kew Gardens

So the last week has been getting busier and busier at work. This weekend we were nailed by food orders, which is a real pain. I think between the two bars we did something like 80 of them, which isn’t that much in the scheme of things I guess, but the pub really isn’t designed to handle that much food going through. That, and it really isn’t convenient for us to take all those orders and get them out to people. It’s a very problematic situation. Which, from what I hear, is only going to get worse. Neil said this happened last year around this time, so it must be some school holiday that gives people a lot of free time. The other thing that is changing is that there are a lot of college kids starting to come in. I don’t know if this is tied to some sort of holiday, but it is rather annoying. I can know say for certain that Uni kids around the world act with about the same amount of stupidity. Oh well, hopefully it will pass.

I managed to have some fun with my time off this week. My roommate Michael leaves sometime next week to go travelling. He and I went out to a pub I really like to have a drink since we both had the next day off. It was a good time, especially when these three British guys showed up, sat down with us and then started buying us drinks. They all started talking cricket, which was fairly humorous from what I picked up. Not sure on all of it though. I feel there might have been some jokes at my expense as well.


The next day I got up early and went on a run with Russell and then took the Tube out to Kew Gardens to catch the fall colors. Fall is a weird time here. There are leaves all over the ground and a few here and there on the trees changing, but most of the leaves I can see are still green on the trees. Granted, we haven’t had a hard frost or it hasn’t even gotten that cold here, but the leaves seem to change on a one by one basis. Even at Kew, there were only a few trees that changed like they do back home. Oh well, the day was sunny and beautiful and it was great to be outside. I had an amazing lunch at the orangery and sat around reading for a little while before exploring some parts of the garden that I hadn’t seen before. There was a really interesting little rocky garden with all sorts of waterfalls that was really cool. I was planning on staying a little longer than I did because it clouded up and then the temperature got to be fairly cold pretty quick. So I walked to what turned out to be a really nice pub by the train tracks and waited for the Tube.

From Kew in the Fall

When I got back to central London, I walked around and took some pictures around Trafalgar Square before going to a play. It was called Riflemind and its about a punk band getting together for a tour ten or fifteen years after they had disbanded. The main character was struggling because he had given up that lifestyle and was afraid he would return to drugs and partying. It ad an interesting little twist at the end too. It was directed by Phillip Seymor Hoffman too, if that’s anything.

From London by Night