Hmm that’s strange; the sun was up this morning when we got
up. Well, the forecast said that it
would be raining and as the forecast is usually spot on we were surprised when
it wasn’t. But, by the time we had been around to the supermarket to stock up
on a couple of essentials there were a few spits of rain, so that’s all right
then.
It had eased off by the time we went down to the station to
get the London Bridge train. So where were we going? To a show that’s where,
and which one? Carousel.
We’d gone in a bit early so we had time for a stroll from
the station to the theatre, which gave me the chance to get the camera out and
get snap happy.
We found a couple of Wenlocks. Go on ask me what a Wenock is…
It’s the mascot of the Paralympic games. A good opportunity for
pictures. Wenlock is such n odd critter, one eyed and big headed. Sounds like a
couple of people I know.
According to wiki
The mascots
were unveiled on 19 May 2010; this marks the second time (after Vancouver's Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk)
that both Olympic and Paralympic mascots were unveiled at the same time. The
mascots were created and designed by iris, a London-based creative agency.
Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a
steelworks in Bolton. They are named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of
the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville Hospital,
a facility in Buckinghamshire that initially organised the Stoke Mandeville Games,
the precursor of the Paralympic Games.
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| The Barbican |
Then on to the show. A Rogers and Hammerstein musical, what
better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than with The Man. I didn’t know that
they had written the anthem that Liverpool football club us. You know the one. You’ll never Walk Alone. We did enjoy
the singing and the scene changes were very clever
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| Above and below are pictures of the original ancient London City Wall |
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