Silent Clowns

For the final part of SJ's birthday present, I'd bought tickets to go and see Paul Merton's Silent Clowns. This is something I'd heard about on the radio. essentially, this was to watch the old silent movies, on a big screen, accompanied by a live pianist.

We set off for London on the now ubiquitous train...we arrived in Faringdon and made our way to Smithfields fr something to eat...unfortunately, we were a bit early and all was shut! Anyway, we had a nice walk round and so decided to catch a cab to the Hackney Empire where the show was on. We arrived in Hackney and (starving) tried to find somewhere to eat...well, all the places looked a tad rough but eventually we thought we'd try a Chinese where Chinese people were eating, figuring that it must be good...and good it was...! It was the nicest Chinese I've ever had and I'd definitely go back there! It was worth the trip to Hackney just for the food!

Anyway, meal over, we headed intothe theatre for the show. It was really good...Paul Mwrton introduced his favourite clips of Hrold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, etc and it was al plaed on the big screen, live, and accompanied by a live pianist...it was brill...!

We had no such palaver as the ast time we went into London...we got home no problems...