We came home from surrey the day before Jane’s 14 year old son Julian came to stay for two nights. Aisha & William loved having the ‘Big J’ here taking him on the tube, playing monopoly endlessly as well as musical jamming. See his thoughts on anti-bullying tactics expressed in a musical fashion here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCUXYwyk9M0 . This was all Interspersed with visits to the excellent Science Museum and the even more amazing British Museum. We also squeezed in watching buskers at Covent Garden before going to a performance of the Queen inspired musical ‘We Will Rock You’. Although the story line was a little ….loose the music was excellent and very LOUD.
The British museum is simply amazing. Amongst the endless exhibits of centuries of British colonial looting are unbelievable wall reliefs from Nineva in Northern Iraq. The exquisitely carved wall slabs created for his palace at Nineveh show the hunting exploits of the last great Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC). The detail is astonishing with lion whiskers, dog claws and tunics all in incredible detail. 
The night before we went to Guildford was the Legacy/ High Commission Gallipoli Ball held in the Exhibition Hall. Apart from its various diplomatic purposes this grand hall’s most recent claim to fame was to be the location for Greengot’s Bank in Harry Potter films. It gave us our first opportunity to in London abandon the kids to the care of adult son of one of the neighbours ! The ball was fun and supported the great work that Legacy still does supporting the families of deceased veterans. A recent edition of Australian Geographic has a photo \Gallery on Australia House. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/view-image.htm?index=3&gid=8799
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