We both needed a little pampering so tonight Amanda and I had a night out in London.

After a drink in Villiers Street we went to Grosvenor Square to the Millennium Hotel to eat at the restaurant of the TV chef Brian Turner. The bar and restaurant have been renovated in a sort of Art Deco style with mood lighting in the form of candles in the bar and frosted glass screens separating clusters of diners in the restaurant. Despite it being set in the centre of the embassy district of London with the American Canadian and Italian embassies close by there was nothing pretentious or fussy about the place.

After a glass of champagne in the bar watching the man himself entertaining tonight's clients we went to eat. The food was excellent and we both gave up on the set meals to enjoy pea soup and chicken pie and avocado blini and roasted monkfish.

Outside for a cab ride to the Adelphi Theatre to see Chicago. Art Deco seems to have been the theme of the evening. There's been a theatre on this site since the Sans Pereil was opened in 1806. However, in 1930 the place was rebuilt in the moderne style which we now know as Art Deco. Chicago's a great musical and in the cast tonight were Jill Halfpenny, latterly Kate Mitchell of Eastenders and recent winner of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Michael French, Nick Jordan in the BBC series Holby City.

All in all a great evening.