One way to the UK?

Well, for the weekend just gone Mara and I had planned to visit Buck Palace and see the changing of the guards and the state rooms etc (open whilst the Queen is in Scotland on holidays) however, Friday night was the ‘last weekend in London’ celebrations for Carrie and the other flatmates sooo we didn’t wake up early enough on Saturday morning to go! I bought a new dress/top Friday after work (half price summer sale) and wore that out – nice black and blue silk and unline anything I already owned. I didn’t actually drink much on Friday night at all (ahrmm quite unlike Mara!), just danced an awful lot so had biggest blisters on my big toes and sore feet overall which wasn’t too nice. Carrie actually had a glass dropped/smashed on her foot accidentally though so her toe was quite nasty! Luckily for her the alcohol had hit home and so she felt nothing!!! Me being the sober one, fixed her up with TCP (like Dettol) prior to sleep & all was healed over in the morning.

I had motivation on Saturday to do something and Mara had just enough to come downstairs to The Cafe for bacon and eggs and some nice cold juice to get the day started! The day wasn’t too bad either, so once we’d finally left the house we headed for Borough Markets under London Bridge and the produce was fantastic! All organic, so I’m guessing probably a little expensive however, we bought some really nice vegies for dinner – made a salad of sweet potato, baby spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, jersey royal potatoes, toasted pine nuts and german wiesswurst (sp?) sausage plus balsamic dressing — the nice thick almost molasses like dressing that they use in Oscars Restaurant (Alice Springs) and it tasted sooo good! So yeah, we ate really nicely Saturday night! All the flatmates had a night in too! I think Friday night did it for most haha even though it’s their last weekend here.

To backtrack a little – after the markets (yeah, we did it in wrong order & had to carry everything around), we went to Leicester Square to see the WEST END LIVE, a free concern by the City of Westminster which showcases most of the big west end musicals that are currently playing. [read on]

Well, woke up this morning and it was raining outside! Last night/yesterday was the Summer Solstice, and it was still light til about 10:30pm or so (i have some pics to post later) and so now the days will start getting darker earlier… and we’re all still just hoping that summer will arrive! Some sunlight not affected by clouds would be really nice.

 The guys were singing Ben Lee in the shower/bathroom this morning…. they have 7 days left in London… it’s going to be quiet without them all around!!! We’re all down on the ‘door list’ for Zoo (niteclub/pub) tonight for Carrie’s farewell do. She’s off the same time as the guys to Europe. So yeah, tonight should be good! Hopefully it’s not pouring rain but it’s not a far walk from the tube station anyway. It’ll be a busy/loud week next week too as it’s Ryan and Joel’s birthdays on 27 June, and then they leave for Europe the next day so they’ll all be up and most likely drunk for all hours! ;o)

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