Clare just texted me, she has seen Stephen Hawking.
UPDATE: also Michael Gove was there. Sounds like Clare had a fun day, good dinner and drinks but doesn't sound like the opera itself (Tristan and Isolde) would have been my cup of tea.
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in A small town, Kent. Wed to Clare + father to 2, I am a full-stack web engineer, + I do javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.