To London.....

The first thing that went wrong today was just after setting off to Carlisle for the train I realised that I had left my UK phone behind so we had to go back a few miles for it.The second thing that went wrong was as we were waiting at the station for the train I discovered from the tickets that our train to London had been at 9.49 am and not at at 10.30 as I had first thought. The tickets were only valid for the 9.49 train!I went to the ticket office.......the lady smiled as I approached and I leaned on the counter, took a deep breath, winced and told her that I had just discovered that we had missed our booked train."  I shouldn't do this........but I will,"  she said and she wrote out a special travel authority form which said that we had been delayed by traffic and missed our train and that our tickets were to be accepted on the next train."You will have lost your booked seats though," she said.We managed to get the perfect seats in an unreserved carriage and had a lovely 3 hour journey to London and arrived early!Josh met us and took our bags and we wandered into the city.After he had gone I realised that I had left all the details of the tickets we needed to collect for our theatre show that evening in my bag.....but hoped that they would not need any of that and just require a name......it was the third thing to go wrong........so that was that for the day.We called first at The Wellcome Collection for a coffee and to avail ourselves of their internet. There was an exhibition on called "Memory Movement Memory Objects" by Alice Anderson which sounded really relevant to our friend Tracy's current PhD work. It was fantastic......with every day objects wrapped totally in copper wire and lit in such away that they glowed and it was like walking through a dark cave filled with treasures.We continued on through the British Museum and called at the Gielgud Theatre to collect our tickets. We had no trouble. We then hovered outside Costa stealing their free internet while we worked out our journey back to Josh and Helena's after the show. It seemed fairly easy if we caught the 73 bus from Oxford Street.We wandered down to the Mall and went in the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts).....we discovered it was free on Tuesdays as we were ferreting about for the £1 day membership..........Thank goodness we didn't pay anything because there was nothing to see.......we were out again in few minutes......they seemed to be in between exhibitions.We wandered through Trafalgar Square and popped into the National Portrait Gallery. The BP Portrait Awards Exhibition had finished two days earlier. We had some pasta and risotto in Soho and the had a wander before the theatre. London Fashion Week was just finishing and we walked passed a show being held in what looked like a multi storey car park. We found the bus stop we needed to get back to Josh and Helena's, had a drink in The Green Man pub and then went to back to the Gielgud Theatre to see 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-time.' I had wanted to go see it for ages and had heard such great things about it.We saw Josh Thomas, an Australian comedian and actor, in the foyer during the interval.We were both disappointed by the play though the set was amazing. The actor who played the boy Christopher was excellent but I hated the characters of his parents, they were too unlikable for me to care about them.......I wanted to love it, but didn't.We found our way easily up to Stoke Newington and the day was capped by us seeing a fox almost on Josh and Helena's doorstep.