This must come as quite a shock, yes an update in less than a week since the last! We have had a couple highlights this week, long boating on Wednesday, Gwyn rolled off her City and Guilds project and is moving onto a new project at Siemens in Staines (Ali G hails from Stains too), our anniversary - eight years as an item, bank accounts finally being sorted out, both now with national insurance numbers, booked our trip to Le Tour (Tour de France), and I saw the Bat mobile!
Long boating…. in London?... sounds a bit odd, but Shawn’s god mother, Josie, who lives over in Maida Vale (posh area) has a long boat, and yes there are canals in London. We were invited to a dinner cruise which took us from Maida Vale up to Camden Town and back. We were welcomed on board with a ‘long’ glass of wine and set off with Shawn at the helm, guiding us down the windy cannel through some long tunnels under roads and past some of the wealthiest areas in London. Houses here go for a staggering £10 million and are owned by some rich Arab sheiks. Now we know where to hide if the Al K’Aida decide to attack London…the only place that won’t be bombed! Mom, we saw Michael Flatly’s place too,not too shabby! We moored up at Camden, all of the market was packed up, but the weird people (punks, fairies, goths, walking S&M advertisements, pin cushions, etc) were still around. To continue past Camden required going down a lock, which was just too much effort after the amount of wine that we had already consumed, so it was an about turn, off to find a spot to settle for dinner. Strangely we came to a holt alongside the London zoo…. Josie prepared us a pasta dinner and the 7 passengers sat inside, enjoying the spoils. After that, we decided to take ourselves for a tour of the zoo, strangely, one can walk straight into the zoo even though it was way past closing time, now 21h00 and still light. It felt a bit odd being the only visitors, and so did the creature features, all giving us the look, which eventually got to us... so we moves on our way. We only managed to home at midnight, but it was well worth it!
Saturday, we popped down to Waterloo station to get our Euro Star tickets for our France Trip, very efficient system the Euro Star people have going. Looking forward to seeing Lance come home for his seventh gold! Shawn and Nadia went off to The Parade of the Colours, celebrating the Queens Birthday and were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the royal family, Camilla and William included. Then we popped down to Covent Garden, and guess what, Batman rocked up, promoting his new movie Batman Begins, giving us a sneak peak at his car, wow wow wow… Gwyn had to drag me away, it must have had a V12 under the hood, lots of flaps everywhere…. Any mans dream. Saturday night, to celebrate the Eight years that Gwyn and I have been a couple, it was out to supper at an American restaurant called Old Orleans. We decided on a ‘Chocolate Brownie Sunday for Two’ for dessert, and when it came all the heads in the restaurant turned, a little boy sitting at the table next to us chirped up, ‘look at the size of it’. It was huge, the equivalent of a gold fish bowl full of brownies, cream, ice cream, caramel and all the good stuff…. This was after we had a huge meal…. So much for the diet! Anyhow this feasting was followed by a movie, ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ well recommended!
Next weekend we are off to Birmingham for a visit, so watch this space for updates.
Lol & Gwyn
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