First Official Pub Crawl

We went to Central London so Debbie could introduce herself at the Soho Theatre where she had applied for a job while we were still in L.A.  The position was for a Writer's Assistant.  After 4 flights of stairs and an oxygen tank later she met one of the producers she had sent her information to.  Good news......interviews hadn't started yet......Bad news.....over 500 people applied for the two positions.
We took the "DLR".....(don't know what that stands for but we assume it is for some sort of light rail) to Lewisham, which is the county seat for the borough that we live in. It's a little rough around the edges but we visited the mall . Poundland and the 99p store are located there.......that's right, nothing too good for us! Anyway, in the center of the mall they were holding auditions for "Annie" with hundred of little girls singing "Tomorrow".  We listened to the first ten or so then decided we'd rather shop at Poundland.....didn't care if the sun came out tomorrow.
There was a great Farmer's Market going on outside and we chose a local cafe for lunch.  Jon had a "so-so" cheeseburger and Debbie had the lambchops and chips.  She expected maybe two lambchops but got five rather tough ones instead.  She asked Jon to put his foot on them so she could cut through them.We were the youngest and most mobile people in the cafe.....but on a sad and rather sweet note.....there was a lady who was elderly and had lost one of her friends that morning.  She was with her son and as she feebly stood up to leave, she fixed the collar on her son's coat.  Love between a mother and child is ageless.
That evening we decided to go to a pub in Forest Hill which is a city close to us and turns out we like that area alot.  It is by the overground train station that we use.  The name of the pub is "The Hob" Very quaint and popular.  It had a sixties band playing that night and we met the female singer's best friend, Sonia, who joined us at our table.  She is a curator at a Museum in London's Financial District.  She told us of an event coming up in November where the oviginal Mayor of London's Coach will pull the new Mayor by horses.  Everyone will be in Medieval dress, except for Sonia.  She said noone has asked her to do so yet and she is not going to say anything.  I think we'll go, sounds like fun.
So.........2 and 1/2 pints of Kronenberg for Debbie and 3 1/2 pints for Jon, we walked around the corner to Pizza Hut and ordered a pizza to "take-away".  We ate at the bus stop, on the bus, and on the way up the hill to the flat.  Finished our midnight dinner and passed out.

By the way, we figured out the boiler and we now have heat in our HOME for the first time in two years.
One last note of interest.  Saturday morning we took the bus into a town called Bromley, where they have a very nice mall, similar to the one in Topanga (L.A.) and it rained on and off.  At one point, when the rained stopped, we heard very cool jazz music.  Turns out, in the town square there were dancers doing the jive and they even have a web site. http://www.surreyjive.co.uk/  so apparently the sun did come out tomorrow.
Cheers,
Deb and Jon