If The Slipper Fits

Lunch with Devon at the Candid Arts Cafe, just behind the Angel station.

Then to Loop for Devon to get some souvenir yarn.  One of the ladies who seems to own the shop was there preparing for a class, and boy, is she a skilled yarn pusher.  I may have been helpless to resist: I can't say.

Then further up the road from where we had lunch to Exmouth Market, which is an up-and-coming area with a lot of restaurants and independent shops.  There was much browsing.

We had some late-afternoon fortification at the nearest Caffe Nero, and then went to dinner here:  http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz_photos/tzhHDaJrDTYfTLNeAi8NOA?select=XIs351SyOKYfm5Ag2z-VsQ.
Now called Sade, it's owned by the same people. 

Devon walked us back toward Sadler's Wells Theatre and then ran for a bus to Waterloo to catch her train home, and JY and I went to the theatre to see Matthew Bourne's production of Cinderella, which is set during World War II in London.  Although we would certainly recognize locations used in the sets if we were to see it in Los Angeles, it is very fun to see it in the city where the action is set. Plus, you know me and anything to do with the Blitz.  There were even WWII nurses.  The "prince" is an injured pilot, and the ball is set at the Cafe de Paris on the night it was bombed, which gives a very convincing urgency to the idea that Cinderella must leave at a certain time - although this is a dream sequence owing to the fact that she has been injured in a bomb blast out in the street.  The setting of the ballet conciously echoes films about that period of time that were made in the same era, black-and-white and earnest.  At the close, the Angel (instead of a fairy godmother) sees off the couple at Paddington Station, and then he comes to rest with his hand on the shoulder of a young woman sitting alone at a cafe:  The next Cinderella. Just a lovely image.

You can play a clip here:  http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Matthew-Bourne-Cinderella