Today was a gentle day. The house is in order and we had the opportunity to sleep until we wanted to get up! We started the day with a leisurely swim in the pool and decided that this house has been a wonderful place to visit for the last fifteen years! We continued the dejunking in the garage, talked with neighbors, played double solitaire with Matt, hosted Susan for dinner, went to Swing dance, and talked with Greg as to whether or not Boston College would be a good move for this Fall.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
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