Royal Opera House - scene of luxury

I was looking at various shows around London at Christmas time, and one of the shows that looked vaguely interesting was The Nutcracker, all sounds very nice, very classy very cultural!

Amazingly, there were tickets available at a bargain 15 pounds. Excellent, so I add 3 to my basket. At the next stage it tells you what seats you will be allocated, along with a hyperlink entitled 'information' which proved to be very enlightening.

It said: "Restricted: WALL/SIDE/ Tall Loose Seat - View: The view of the stage is obstructed by the WALL in front of this seat. Restricted due to a SIDE view of the stage. Seat Type: A seat about the height of a bar stool. It has a foot rest but no arm rests. It is not fixed to the floor."

In other words, you're sitting on a stool with a wall in front of you. Still, it's a Royal Opera House stool, which has got to have a much greater cultural value than almost any comparable stool.

In the end I bought tickets to Scrooge: The Musical, which frankly deserves a blog entry of it's own.

I was also treated last night to the sight of the Agape team doing skits, I'll never forget Kevin the Cheerleader. I was also treated to a trip to the Richmond Tavern with Dr Steven Attwell, a man who upon learning that i was from Hampshire (this was the first time I met him, the first day I moved into halls) declared "loads of money", rubbed his hands together and then walked off. As you can imagine, it was a most enlightening evening.

p.s. the best 'river pollution' word was liverpool, the longest is revolution.