Meanwhile, Back At The ´óÏó´«Ã½
Just a few days into our family holiday in London and I'm already drawn back to the ´óÏó´«Ã½. We were at Oxford Circus when the female half of the Zed clan decided they wanted to spend some time "trying on clothes". This, I now understand, is similar to actual shopping but there is also a good chance that the time invested in this activity wont result in an actual purchase.
I took Zed-son along to Broadcasting House where, I assured him, a cost-free time could be had just hanging around the reception area reading magazines. As it happened we also got a glimpse of newsgathering in action. Reporter Nicholas Witchell was interviewing people about the Corporation's annual report which is out today. We tried to sneak past the live camera but found our exit route blocked by some construction work so we had to sneak past again in the opposite direction. I fear our sneaking antics might have made it on to the six o'clock news.
"Why are ´óÏó´«Ã½ reporters always interviewing people about the ´óÏó´«Ã½?" asked my son, in one of those simple, child-like questions that sums up our current state of self-obsession. I had no simple answer.
Instead we marched down to the Trocadero Centre and spent an hour on various games machines including miniature bowling and a space-flight simulator.
More fun than trying on clothes, that's for sure.
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