Seeking Inspiration

Took a day off - time to reflect on the past few weeks and needed a quick recharge. Know the next couple of weeks will be busy; fun, but busy.

I live in a fairly nondescript part of west London, but even here you can stumble across the odd interesting thing. On the other side of park, and by the Thames, there is Shakespeare's Temple, built by famous 18th century actor/manager - and no doubt all round luvvie - David Garrick.

Go the other direction and you come across Teddington Studios - a temple of comedy. Most famous for being where Benny Hill filmed - and let's not forget that in the early days of b&w TV he did some inspired material utilising the new medium of TV, before sinking to the dire Hills Angels stuff - many other comedy greats have filmed there, including Morecombe and Wise.

Not sure where I would be on that artistic scale - Shakespeare at one end and Thames Television comedy at the other - but who'd have thought a rather suburban west London borough could contain such a mixture...