Julie's Boggle

As is fairly typical for a Sunday afternoon, we started off with very little on the agenda.

First off we had to finish watching Shadowlands – the excellently-told and very moving story about C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy.

After that Tom started making noises about wanting a curry…

The tragedy of this, is that our favourite curry restaurant Le Cinnamon stopped serving lunch (probably because it was not a profitable venture) some months ago! In the absence of a good alternative and with the lunch hour moving onwards, we headed out to find the Anglesea Arms, a gastro-pub that we’d been told was good but not visited so far.

It took about 20 minutes of gentle strolling to bring us to the famed Anglesea, only to find that we didn’t want to eat there! It was packed with punters and a heavy cloud of cigarette smoke hung over the proceedings. Veto! We moved on, wandering through the pretty streets of terraces that the real estate agents have named “Brackenbury Village”. The walking was all very well, but we were getting hungry! And the few pubs we came across were clearly not doing food any more. At last we got back to Hammersmith Grove and another gastro-pub we’ve visited a few times: The Grove.

We were in luck because they were still very much in the serving-food mode and their lovely light and airy room was a joy to behold. Tom went for the chargrilled rib-eye steak, for a slightly eye-watering £15 (he only noticed afterwards), and I had an option from their brunch menu:- smoked salmon and scrambled eggs which was delicious. Afterwards, to cushion ourselves against the potential disappointment of the cinema not having our favourite ice cream flavour again, we went for desserts too.

After rolling home, we had a choice of several movies that we’d flagged as “need to see” and we picked V for Vendetta.

Wow!

Described by our favourite reviewer as

“a visually sumptuous concoction that combines political allegory, bloody action, and a few stunning cinematic moments into a solid piece of entertainment”

it thoroughly lived up to the review. All I’d add to that is “well worth seeing”.