The pizza that is, and although I’m getting stuck into MU123 (Discovering Maths) I wouldn’t really call it tasty. Talking of Studies, I duly dispatched the final TMA (EMA) for DD131 on 16th September so here’s hoping for a favourable result. I now look forward to a year of living math-wise.
On Saturday 21st (hi fi) Richard and I decided, after the rather poor pizza from Great Portland Street on Aug. 17th, that we would eat in the Bruton Place (Mayfair) Pizza Express - PE - for a change from the usual in Thayer Street. Before meeting up with Richard at KJ West One and setting out for our evening pizza I paid my now customary visit to Workshop Coffee in Wigmore Street. Great coffee, as per usual, and some friendly banter with the (all female) baristas…To quote from Time Out magazine “…the coffee (roasted at the Clerkenwell site) is several cuts above the London norm. Sit at the counter if you like watching baristas (skilled and friendly) at work. An unassuming gem.”
It is (almost) worth the tube ride to visit this coffee shop alone but then there is the £6 fare on top of the £2.20 for each espresso (I had three!) which would add up to a rather expensive coffee session
With the Bruton Place PE being just off Berkeley Square, and not far from the Ritz, it is a little different from eating pizzas in the area around New Cavendish Street. This one also happens to be the PE that served excellent food on the occasion I went there with my son on May 26th this year. Not only was the food really good both times, making the extra mile or so of walking well worth the effort… we get to be in the posh bit for a while. Not that there’s anything wrong with the Marylebone Village area of course, but even the good ol’ Monopoly game highlights the difference between Mayfair and everywhere else!
Thought I’d also mention the Bugatti Veyron (a special edition of an extremely fast sports car) taking pride of place in one of the large windows of Berkeley Square’s Bentley showroom, with a price tag of around £1,500,000 (1.9m Euros) - ten times the price of an ‘ordinary’ Bentley! Here’s me thinking that expensive hi fi has Big numbers, although with many systems costing (£) 6 figure sums and some that cost considerably more than the aforementioned Bentley, I guess it is. As previously noted, I can’t afford to run a car let alone buy hi fi these days…
This past two weeks has seen time for Dvorak’s Second Symphony (from the 1860s) which has became more ‘interesting’ since investing in Bruckner and Mahler symphonies. I have also been playing the cornet (trumpet) part of Gustav Holst’s 2 suites for Military Band while having the recordings playing on my ‘system’ - more music for the neighbours to enjoy... perhaps? The Wind Orchestra of the Royal Northern College of Music (for my listening) makes it sound easier than it is!
Maths and mmmm-Mayfair… tasty!
The pizza that is, and although I’m getting stuck into MU123 (Discovering Maths) I wouldn’t really call it tasty. Talking of Studies, I duly dispatched the final TMA (EMA) for DD131 on 16th September so here’s hoping for a favourable result.
I now look forward to a year of living math-wise.
On Saturday 21st (hi fi) Richard and I decided, after the rather poor pizza from Great Portland Street on Aug. 17th, that we would eat in the Bruton Place (Mayfair) Pizza Express - PE - for a change from the usual in Thayer Street. Before meeting up with Richard at KJ West One and setting out for our evening pizza I paid my now customary visit to Workshop Coffee in Wigmore Street. Great coffee, as per usual, and some friendly banter with the (all female) baristas…To quote from Time Out magazine “…the coffee (roasted at the Clerkenwell site) is several cuts above the London norm. Sit at the counter if you like watching baristas (skilled and friendly) at work. An unassuming gem.”
It is (almost) worth the tube ride to visit this coffee shop alone but then there is the £6 fare on top of the £2.20 for each espresso (I had three!) which would add up to a rather expensive coffee session
With the Bruton Place PE being just off Berkeley Square, and not far from the Ritz, it is a little different from eating pizzas in the area around New Cavendish Street. This one also happens to be the PE that served excellent food on the occasion I went there with my son on May 26th this year. Not only was the food really good both times, making the extra mile or so of walking well worth the effort… we get to be in the posh bit for a while.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the Marylebone Village area of course, but even the good ol’ Monopoly game highlights the difference between Mayfair and everywhere else!
Thought I’d also mention the Bugatti Veyron (a special edition of an extremely fast sports car) taking pride of place in one of the large windows of Berkeley Square’s Bentley showroom, with a price tag of around £1,500,000 (1.9m Euros) - ten times the price of an ‘ordinary’ Bentley!
Here’s me thinking that expensive hi fi has Big numbers, although with many systems costing (£) 6 figure sums and some that cost considerably more than the aforementioned Bentley, I guess it is.
As previously noted, I can’t afford to run a car let alone buy hi fi these days…
This past two weeks has seen time for Dvorak’s Second Symphony (from the 1860s) which has became more ‘interesting’ since investing in Bruckner and Mahler symphonies. I have also been playing the cornet (trumpet) part of Gustav Holst’s 2 suites for Military Band while having the recordings playing on my ‘system’ - more music for the neighbours to enjoy... perhaps?
The Wind Orchestra of the Royal Northern College of Music (for my listening) makes it sound easier than it is!