Simon and Ruth-Sunday in London

Finding ourselves on our own in London one Sunday in January, we took a bus from Tottenham to St Martin-in-the-Fields, in Trafalgar Square, for their 10am Communion Service. It was an hour and a half’s journey (rather longer than our usual 7 minutes along the by-pass to reach St John’s) but it was a sunny morning after grey days and we enjoyed our tour of London, that’s why we prefer taking the bus to the tube, this way you can see how the bits of London join up! We received a warm welcome and enjoyed watching the pews (yes, pews, we are a step ahead at St
John’s there) filling up. The service was a joy of diversity and enthusiasm with a wonderful feeling of common purpose. There was an outstanding choir - it was good to learn some new hymns, as well as sing some old favourites. The brilliant sermon on the theme of ‘the lamb’ talked of sacrifice. Thought provoking. On our way out the vicar asked someone to show us the way us to their hall for coffee. The ‘someone’ turned out to have a daughter studying dance in Leeds and directed us to Somerset House. We had a quick lunch in the amazing cafe in the church and made our way to see the exhibition, having little idea of what to expect. We were blown away by an extraordinary display of Artificial Intelligence generated choreography by the world renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor. Next we saw two girls dancing close to their admiring watchers, as their movements were captured by AI banks of lights. It was quite breathtaking. We have a video clip of Ruth’s dance reflected on the AI screen! - definitely not for publication. 

​Finally we returned, again on the bus, in time to see the family home from their weekend in Oxford. Back to King’s Cross and we settled down on the train for our trip back to Yorkshire.

What an amazing Sunday in London