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Dear Lazyweb...
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 11:40 pm...I would crave your indulgence and ask your aid, if I may.
In a couple of weeks we will be visited over a period of three nights (a little like Scrooge's Christmas Ghost), by my Mum, sister and 14 year old niece. That's good and I am looking forward to seeing them and showing them around the Gin Palace.
That's ten minutes of the visit catered for, then.
I'm not too worried about my sister and niece; I am happy to trail them around town and show them things for some of the time and the rest they can manage on their own - I'll give them tips on how to get from A to B and back again, so that shouldn't be a problem (I hope). What I can't do is show them around and look after Mum at the same time. Equally, I can't -and don't want to - leave Mum at the Gin Palace to fend for herself while the rest of us march off to see the wonders of London. Mum is 83 and increasingly forgetful. She is also not as fast on her feet as once she was. If the weather is hot, I shall have to deal with that, too. She doesn't get on well with excessive heat.
Anyway, the indulgence I crave is this: does anyone have any suggestions on places of interest that can be reached in London with minimal amounts of walking from the nearest Tube station? Even better, a couple of interesting places reasonably close together.
Any and all suggestions gratefully received; this managing of the generations is not an easy thing to achieve.
In a couple of weeks we will be visited over a period of three nights (a little like Scrooge's Christmas Ghost), by my Mum, sister and 14 year old niece. That's good and I am looking forward to seeing them and showing them around the Gin Palace.
That's ten minutes of the visit catered for, then.
I'm not too worried about my sister and niece; I am happy to trail them around town and show them things for some of the time and the rest they can manage on their own - I'll give them tips on how to get from A to B and back again, so that shouldn't be a problem (I hope). What I can't do is show them around and look after Mum at the same time. Equally, I can't -and don't want to - leave Mum at the Gin Palace to fend for herself while the rest of us march off to see the wonders of London. Mum is 83 and increasingly forgetful. She is also not as fast on her feet as once she was. If the weather is hot, I shall have to deal with that, too. She doesn't get on well with excessive heat.
Anyway, the indulgence I crave is this: does anyone have any suggestions on places of interest that can be reached in London with minimal amounts of walking from the nearest Tube station? Even better, a couple of interesting places reasonably close together.
Any and all suggestions gratefully received; this managing of the generations is not an easy thing to achieve.