Six weeks in Great Britain Part 1

My husband and I got back a week ago from a six week trip to Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. It seems like a lot of time but we still didn't do all the things we would have liked to do.
Our first week we spent eight nights in London.
Trying to avoid jet lag we took a flight that was suppose to get into London at 10:10 pm. We left St. Louis at 6 am for Chicago. The flight out of Chicago was for 8:30. No problems, found the gate for the London flight, but then there was a delay. They told us by 9 am we would know what was going on. Close to 9 they said it was a sensor, they had the part, we could start boarding and we needed to hurry because we had to take off by 10 am to make the Heathrow curfew of 11:30 pm. Just as we were all getting ready to board the sign went up that we were delayed until 5 pm. But the people at the gates and on the plane were saying "no, no we are good to go". That got straightened out and they rushed us on board and we took off by 10 am. We are an hour and a half late taking off but landed only 55 minutes late.
There is no one in Heathrow at 11 pm. No one looked at my passport I just laid it on a screen. It was nice landing in a country where we spoke the language and could follow the signs easily. We took the Underground Piccadilly line to Russell Square.
I'd chosen a hotel in Russell Square since I was looking for a hotel within a block or two of an underground station. I have a bad back and arthritis and wanted something easy to walk to at the end of the day. There was a lot of second guessing on my part about this fearing we were to far out.
We stayed at the President Hotel, part of a chain of Imperial Hotels all around Russell Square. Only a block and a half from the underground. I did become a member of the hotel chain in order to get 10% off. The hotel was nice with 24/7 reception, restaurant and bar but the rooms were very small. I think they were larger than a Premier Inn Hub. It was half a block away from a busy street by Russell Square, lots of restaurants, buses and a few blocks from the British Museum. We found it was easy to get everywhere on the underground or buses.
Our first night we went to bed around 1:30 am and got up the next morning around 9. We found a coffee shop, Nero Cafe which is a chain, had breakfast and walked to the British Museum. We didn't have tickets but walked right in and spent several hours there.
Around 3 pm we went for lunch at the Queens Larder, a nearby pub which takes it name from Queen Charlotte, wife of George the III, who was receiving treatment for insanity at a doctors house near the Queen's Square. Queen Charlotte cooked for him by renting a cellar beneath the pub. We had a beer but unfortunately they had stopped serving lunch at 3:00. On the same short block was the Swan where we had a steak and ale pie. We met a couple from Australia and had a nice conversation with them.
Then we went back to the hotel to rest for an hour or so. We finished the evening at another pub called the Museum Tavern which is on a street corner across from the British Museum. The place was full and two men offered to share their table with us, We spent a couple of hours talking with them. One of the men ran a cafe/camera museum nearby. He told us stories about the Rolling Stones whose business manager had offices near him, showing up in their individual limousines, He also talked about Madonna's son, Rocco, who sometimes came into his shop.
I won't do a day by day report after this but some of the other things we did over the course of our travels.