Olive’s birthday celebration. 85, and still out on the town

11th June 2005

Find Olive in the family tree

Kirsty shows off her digital camera to Olive and with which she took these pictures. Ian provides the tea and an itinerant French conjurer does his best for Anglo-French relations.

Ken Livingwotsit had closed the underground to make life a misery for tourists wanting to watch the Queen Troop the Colour and octogenarians intent on serious retail therapy. Hence the walk along Villiers Street to chance our arm on the No.11 bus. The bus arrival announcement panel said we had to wait 15 minutes but the bus turned up in just three. Ain’t technology wonderful!
Peter Jones and other fashion shops got a good ‘going over’ but the only place that extracted money from us was an Italian restaurant called Dino’s. It wasn’t as good as the prices would suggest but it was a welcome break for the footsore.

There was an art exhibition in the King’s Road but it was a bit too ultra modern to tempt our birthday girl. A black cloud chased us on to a passing bus and by a circuitous route we eventually found ourselves near Tower Bridge as it began to get dark. The camera lies; it was 9pm.

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