The main purpose of our trip to Nottingham this day was to go and see Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers in Noel Coward's play 'Private Lives'. The play was good, though not a patch on Relative Values, and Nigel and Patricia reminded us why amateur theatre is amateur while professionals are professionals.
There were very few of us in the balcony and the theatre was offering to upgrade us to the stalls, but it seemed more sensible to stay where we were and this proved to be a wise choice. There were only about ten of us up there, which meant we could move seats and I could stick my leg out into the aisle.
We thought we were going to the Royal Centre, but actually we were going to the Royal Theatre, which is around the back - a proper old theatre, with multiple balconies and a predictably paltry amount of legroom!
During the morning we visited the TAG Heuer boutique in the town, here we talked to Brad and I tried on the Carrera Montreal. We also visited Goldsmiths in the Victoria Centre and Rose tried on the fumé dial Aquaracer.
We had booked a table for lunch at Fothergills and it was very nice, we both had pies, but unfortunately we were too full for a pudding. After lunch we headed to the theatre, and as we stood outside we marvelled at the fact that people were quite happy to stand (or sit) on the pavement, feet away from cars belching fumes, just so long as they have a drink in their hand.
We decided that as we had breached the 7 hour limit on parking and as were now going to have to pay £17 for the pleasure of parking our car that there was no rush to leave. As such we decided to visit the bar at the Crown Plaza (where we had parked) and enjoyed a couple of drinks there before we left.
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