<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/kings-cross-stationoct18.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5321" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/kings-cross-stationoct18-200x134.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="134" /></a>A trip down to London is always exciting. Arriving just after midday at Kings Cross in bright sunshine and met by Richard and Nicola with lunch at <a href="https://thelighterman.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Lighterman</a>. The whole area around the station has changed dramatically with a Google building amongst many other major players in the corporate world.

<img class="alignleft" src="https://www.whatsonstage.com/s/wos-photos-production/122804.jpg" alt="Image result for macbeth at barbican" width="224" height="149" />After a pre-theatre dinner we took our seats at the Barbican to see the RSC performance of Macbeth. I had seen a live cinema broadcast of it at Peterborough earlier in the year but the three-dimensional performances with Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack was excellent. The whole effect is breathtaking and despite not always following the Shakespearean language completely it is very enjoyable. Macbeth of course is a simple case of power corrupting, a powerful wife and the fallout continues throughout his reign as he tries to cover his deeds...

<img class="alignright" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/aa7006612c3dee38c622b6746074cb4e/5C45BC2A/t51.2885-15/e35/40803761_293324487924954_3688600713057854551_n.jpg" alt="Image result for tate modern weimar review" width="250" height="250" />A drizzly Wednesday and a visit to Tate Modern with particular interest in the art of the Weimar period. This was the time between the first and second world war when Germany was finding its feet again and Hitler was coming to power. The artists of Germany were anti fascist and therefore had a very difficult time during this time.

We  walked back from Tate Modern in a light drizzle through to Islington. Richard and Nicola had bought us tickets for the <a href="https://www.oceanfilmfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ocean Film Festival</a>. It was a series of short films ranging from surfers in Hawaii to saving shearwaters on Lord Howe Island in the Pacific ocean. The shearwater youngsters were having their stomachs pumped because they were full of plastic that had been fed to them by their parents. If global warming doesn't end our days on this planet then the amount of plastic entering the food chain certainly will.

And then a train journey which I really enjoyed - reading New Scientist and looking out at the wonderful english countryside.