The Punters Want More Fodder!

Ok, Ok Already. Well, we went to London yesterday, Canterbury on Friday (night), I ran 1.5 hours on Monday, my squeaky Blundstone needed fixing (Thursday), some trousers needed hemming (Thursday), I finished a 'square' on Wednesday and just got back from a bang-up roast dinner this afternoon...So here's proof of some of this.
London was great. Excellent weather. It was so busy with everyone - tourists, runners, Londoners, buses, cars, the lot! We have loads of pictures but the sites that stuck in my brain were: the clock on St. Margaret's Church, our flight on the London Eye, the gherkin, more spikes on St. Margaret's, the Guard's Museum and Horse Guard's Parade.
I'll post more pictures as the days go by so here are a few to start. Can anyone spot the gherkin? Does anyone even know what a gherkin is? We saw the gherkin from the Eye and also as we came into King's Cross Station. The sundial clock was pretty accurate. Located beside Westminister Cathedral on St. Margaret's Church. We saw some real horses in Horse Guard Parade - it is a kind of staging area for many of the horse parades and we saw the Life Guards of the Queen's Household Cavalry - horses are always black, their mounts in red. It's actually one of the most well-trained and senior regiments of the British Army.
We had been warned that there might be huge queues for the Eye but we found the line to move quickly and it only took 1 hour from start of line to end of 'flight'.
J-Rock's Grandad was a Grenadier Guard so the trip to the Guard's Museum was well worth it. We are going to get more info on his service record by writing the archivist and hopefully we can get some photos of him leading the Trooping of the Colour. (He was the one who yelled out the commands and twirled the baton...an RQMS - a prize if you know what THAT means!)