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Devon is a direct and digital marketing professional dedicated to inspiring creative ideas and intelligent marketing solutions. Her passion for communications extends outside the office with a semi-professional hobby as a writer, actor and humorist. She created and performed the first show based on a blog at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London Comedy Festival in 2004. Devon is also an avid theatre-goer with reviews that have been quoted in TIME magazine. You can find links to all of her personal and professional projects here: http://www.google.com/profiles/DevonDudgeon

The sun was shining today! In London, that means people flock to the parks, every inch of Soho Square is filled at lunch time and everyone is generally in a good mood. It doesn't happen often.

Since I work from home, I took the opportunity to go for a lunch-time walk in Clapham Common. There were fewer pasty white people exposing flesh for their annual burn than I expected, but there was no shortage of mums, prams, kids and a few dogs. An Indian woman walked past me and said "it's a nice day out, isn't it?" As I headed back home I noticed an old lady sitting quietly on a fallen-tree-trunk-cum-bench, just reading the paper. It was a peaceful scene and I thought how lovely London can be. Then I nearly stepped in human excrement.

In the evening, I went to The Wyndham Theatre to see Hamlet, starring Jude Law. We had seats in the fourth row. Shakespeare was a bigger draw for me than Law, but it was Law who made eye contact with me. I suspect it was due to me accidentally having to stand in the aisle at the start of the second act rather than any resemblance I might bear to Sienna Miller (same color hair is pretty much the only one).

I'd already seen the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet twice  in the past year, and this production couldn't hold a brief candle to it.

After the three+ hour show, I headed back home from Leicester Square and wrote a Five-Word Review of the show for my blog:http://fivewordreviews.blogspot.com/