Last night we attended an event at the Leamington Museum, with live music, gin and tonic (we skipped the gin) and the museum curators talking about the collection. Guess what? We are not the only people who play Ugly Baby Jesus!

We spent a while chatting to one of the staff who had her BA and MA from Birmingham University, and the art students there play UBJ. She also told us about  Renaissance Elbow, and we explained First Cows of the Day to her. India, if you read this there are some of our UBJ finds here and here.

How come they had maybe eight varieties of designer gin, and only one sort of tonic? In a G&T the tonic contributes at least as much to the taste as the gin. I mean, there might be people out there who prefer Schweppes to Fever-Tree.

There are some fine murals, or perhaps graffiti, on the way out of Leamington. There would be more pictures, but I was trying to take photographs and steer the boat at the same time.

Talking of murals we were watching the first episode of the new Tales of the City series last night. There’s a scene set at the end of Clarion Alley, by a mural that I watched being painted, and at the end of it Shawna sets off to walk back to Telegraph Hill in the wrong direction.

Even if she was taking BART, the nearest station is the other way.

And it’s too far to walk (more than three miles).

If you’re going to go to the trouble of using a genuine San Francisco location, you might pick one in North Beach, or South of Market, where you could reasonably walk to Telegraph Hill, and then go in the right direction.

We were lucky with the locks today, getting assistance of one sort or another through most of them, so we got further than planned. No mobile signal tonight, so I am not sure when this will get posted.