Tuesdays: discuss

Tuesday is not a very exciting day. It doesn’t evoke the passion of a Monday, the satisfaction of a Wednesday, the exited stirrings of a Thursday and frankly the oftentimes giddiness of a Friday. In Zen terms Tuesday just is. So a way to mark what is otherwise an unremarkable day is to go for dinner and a movie with your gorgeous missus. So that’s exactly what we did. We headed into Beckenham on a FREEZING (below zero) Tuesday evening.

I wanted to go to Pizza Express because I like their salads and not surprisingly, their pizzas. Beckenham Pizza Express rocks! Now food wise, it’s like every other PE, good quality, tasty but hardly a mind blowing gastronomic experience. But the atmosphere was great. It was packed - everywhere else was dead, but PE was jumping. The service was impeccable and they had a singer/pianist who was 'mazing. He did a fabulous version of Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars which could have gone so horrible wrong but which was really, really good. You could hear the music clearly but it just didn’t feel intrusive at all. When we left he was doing Keane and I almost went and sat back down. The customers were really diverse and there was lots of talking and laughing. (Maybe I was wrong about Tuesday’s?!)

There were lots of gay people about and that might have been for a very good reason… they have a rainbow sticker on the window by the door! PE Beckenham is gay! Hurrah!

Nice food, nice atmosphere, nice service and very good music and all on our door step... well done Pizza Express.

Afterwards we went and saw Hot Fuzz, which was bloody funny. There were only about 20 people in the cinema – mostly women – and again there was a really nice atmosphere like everyone just wanted to have a good time. At times my partner and I jumped out of skins (church spire anyone?) but the gun battles are absolutely brilliant and it’s a cracking film with real laugh out loud moments - highly recommended.

So there you have it, Tuesdays. Underestimate them at your peril…