It snowed the first week of April in London. I was thinking the flowers in the garden have no chance of a proper spring but the sun finally made it's debut this weekend.

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I helped out at a Kids Company sleepover at The British Museum and how fun it was to hang out there after closing time!

When I arrived the museum was the emptiest it could ever witnessed. It felt surreal. Excitement filled the air when 86 kids showed up. They laid their sleeping bags in the Egyptian sculpture hall and took storytelling, dancing and ( Read more... )

Hope you can forgive me for being indulgent but I can't sing my praises enough for Hampstead. I'm house sitting in this beautiful part of London and this weekend has been a cracker. The sun was shining, it was balmy and the people came out to play.

Woke up to birds singing and pulled back the curtains to see this. Hello world!

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I took photos throughout this day with my phone. It was hectic but memorable one.

Woke up to this amazing sun-shiny day. You can't really see it here but ANY day with clear skies in London is a blessing.

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This is my first afternoon tea in London, thanks to a friend visiting from Oz. It was a glorious Sunday and for October, the weather was amazing. The sky was cloudless and searingly blue. I shielded from the sunshine because I was actually getting burnt ( Read more... )

I experienced a shock of sunlight and colour when I looked outside my window ( Read more... )

Week seven (or eight?) in London and I've been eating well. Here is my hoard of random food pics.

Typical English breakfast fry up at Canteen. Eggs and bacon served over bubble and squeak.

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My uni friend Matt has been encouraging me to visit Richmond since I moved to London. I'd been putting it off because it's in Zone 4 on the tube map (and Zone 3 is a long way by my standards). There was no time like the present since I was returning to Oz ( Read more... )

This is actually a reconstruction, or replica of the original theatre co-owned by William Shakespeare. It's located in Southbank, across the Millenium Bridge, close to my work ( Read more... )

I'm sure you're asking "what the hell is Silent Disco?" It's a disco where everyone wears headphones tuned to the DJ(s) playing and all you see is people dancing but no music. I would not normally go on a late Thursday night, let alone by myself, but Peaches (an obscure electronica musician) was playing and I wanted to see her live.


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