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Days 151 - 169 August 2020

 Location: London, UK 


COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

So I kind of lost steam with the blog.

I'm not sure how but suddenly a day, a month had passed since I'd written anything.

The end of August came and went.  

Some highlights for me: 

Attending a socially distanced vegan supper club (great food, great wine, great company).  

I took part in an unrehearsed reading of The Effect by Lucy Prebble which was really fun, very interesting play and one I missed seeing a few years ago, so I was pleased to have the chance to perform it.

Decided to "Eat Out to Help Out" and went on a 33,400 step vegan food journey across London which was great fun! Mildred's for breakfast, Eat Chay for lunch, sweet treat cookies from Humbledough and Neat Burger for dinner - good thing we walked as far as we did!

Visited Eltham Palace in South East London - one of the English Heritage properties which has re-opened the house and not just the gardens.  Fascinating house - half 13th century, half art deco! Definitely worth a look.

In the world... Trump doesn't seem to want to support the US Postal Service to allow postal voting, which could be seen as a act of voter suppression - essentially making it harder for or actually taking away people's ability to vote.  Polls suggest that Democrats are more likely to vote by post so there is an inkiling as to why he may be doing this... 

Over and out


Eltham Palace


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