Daily Archives: July 7, 2011

The Flying Karamazov Brothers

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Laney and I went to see The Flying Karamazov Brothers (FKB) tonight at the Vaudeville Theatre. Once again I didn’t really know what I had booked us in for but I was quite pleased to find that we had a very enjoyable night. In short The FKB are a comedic juggling group. The show was witty and funny and included jokes which showed tailoring to the audience, namely English culture. The juggling required incredible co-ordination and the brothers also demonstrated considerable musical skills with the piano, trombone, tuba, alto sax, guitar and recorder all making an appearance – there was one particular set which had each other playing someone else’s instrument whilst keeping balls in the air! In fact, quite a few of the acts demonstrated the link between the rhythm of music and the rhythm of juggling. They even juggled dry ice and a cava (which eventually exploded.) Not every set was a hit, I mean there was this scene where the boys all donned ballet costumes and flitted around on stage. Not sure what this was about.There was also crowd interaction with audience members being invited to submit items for juggling, with the finale involving one lady getting up stage to have flaming items juggled past her.

Overall just the kind of light-hearted entertainment that we were looking for.

Babylon Roof Garden with Jill and Craig

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Jill has been so lovely to me over the last six years or so at work that I thought it would be nice to take hert our to a nice lunch before she leaves the team. I know she appreciates good food, not just the stuff you can get in our local pubs, so we headed over to Babylon Roof Gardens. Conveniently only bus ride away. It was nice to have the time away from the office and engage in chit chat that wasn’t work related!

Food at Babylon Roof Gardens continues to quite stunning if I do say so. I had a divine Pea Soup which really suited the cooler temperature we were having today, followed by a gigantic portion of a Roasted Pork Cutlet on a bed of apple and sorrel risotto. So filling Craig’s and Jill’s Salmon and Liver respectively were gigantic too. And all very good. Topping out a trifecta our desserts looked and tasted fab. The green tea and strawberry swiss roll worked particularly well.

It was a shame that it was absolutely tipping it down outside and there was a function downstairs so we couldn’t see the pink flamingoes close-up. I was, however, amazed at how busy the restaurant was. First of all it was the middle of the day! And second of all the weather really was terrible – I thought it would keep people away!