It’s starting to come together. The carpet was installed today over the 1950’s linoleum that the Kiernans installed when they first finished out the attic. The blue industrial strength carpeting and the blue walls and ceilings of the Hatker era are now all gone. The ceilings are white and the walls beige. All the door casings and baseboards are of a 1920’s style and the new carpet is a soft beige. Everything’s neutral. Tomorrow new air-conditioning vents will be installed upstairs.
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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