A family history reference to Niagara Falls triggered Mark’s memory of a Three Stooges skit that he shared with all of us this rainy morning. Of course we then needed to watch the Abbott and Costello version. From there we proceeded to Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box. We challenge you to watch it with a straight face!
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.
Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch . . . .
And as the rain continues to fall, we’re now listening to “The Second Week of Deer Camp”, “A Walk in the Irish Rain”, and other great songs by Gunness the Duo accompanied by appropriate beverages!
“nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!”, “woob-woob-woob!