The weekend starts today, precisely at 2:30PM when Mrs E arrives at St Pancras ("International", as it likes to be called) to be treated by Mr E to a flute of bubblies at Europe's longest champagne bar.
It promises to be great fun even with the arm in a sling: the Bloomsbury Festival returns after a three-year hiatus, with more than 100 events for art lovers, music fans, shop-aholics, literature buffs, etc. Taking place across the area, the programme includes a lantern-lit procession (tonight 6-8pm), dance snippets by The Place all around the festival site (Sat, Sun), music in the area's parks and gardens (Sat, Sun), a tour of the secret spaces in Charles Holden's Art Deco Senate House (Sat 10.30am), a South Asian festival (a MUST!) with a food market, henna hand painting, dance and music at SOAS, and a street party on Lamb's Conduit St with music, entertainment and food (Sun 4-9pm). There are also open days at local museums including the Dickens Museum, Foundling Museum and Cartoon Museum.
Two dinners, a brunch party on Sunday and nocturnal pleasures complement the exhilerating joys outdoors until Monday morning. It's good to live in London.
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