I am so tired I can hardly see, but my brain is on overdrive and I cannot sleep. I have a load of blogging stacking up over Heathrow and am about to go away and accrue a whole lot more things to say, so I am trying to empty my brain a bit. I hope this means that the important stuff like remembering how to eat, doesn’t get pushed out by the need to recall all the daft things the children will undoubtedly do on holiday.
I am not capable of much coherent thought at this point though, so I thought I would share with you a few random images of our holiday in London a few weeks ago:
Like the shutters on a glorious house in Bermondsey that sat next to a house with a kind of beach hut style thing on the roof that I also loved:
Or this deranged sheep at the Tower of London:
It looks menacing because it is actually part of a cannon. An ornamental cannon. I still can’t quite get my head around that one.
I loved these knitted patchwork blanket changing room curtains in the Mornington Crescent Oxfam shop.
And this red socked girl who was painted on a wall at Camden market.
These words painted on the wall leading down to the nocturnal house at London Zoo are wonderful.
This van made me laugh. It was so filthy I think that tasting the Nile from its environs would probably give you dengue fever.
And the very self deprecating sign advertising ‘quite nice mugs’. Let’s not go overboard here.
I love this detailing from the gates at Potters Fields Park. And this:
splendid roof at the Hays Galleria.
Finally I will leave you with the word I always think of when I am in London:
Thanks for the photos Katyboo. Have fun in the southlands
Sharon
No problem. We will, but given the fact that it is raining in biblical proportions I am thinking there won’t be much beach type action.
Have a great time m’dear – it’s p’ing down here too.
The van is funny.
We were following a van the other day which had ‘Fat people are hard to kidnap” painted on the back- not written in the dirt, in the style of ‘I wish my wife was this filthy’- actually painted on. Weird.
Love London, love life… ‘cos all human life is there. Someone else said something similar to that once. Can’t think who… ; )
Hi Katy,
I have been meaning to come on and write a big THANK YOU to you and all of the readers who gave us London suggestions. We had a fantastic time.
We have, since we returned two weeks ago, hosted my sister and her family for a week, driven to Toronto and back and moved once. So, blog-reading has been at an all-time low. I will try to comment later about what we did specifically, but OH it was so hard to leave and return to suburban Connecticut! Definitely must find a way to move there or get someone to fund London trips….
I’m sad that I didn’t see the girl with the red socks when we were at Camden market.
I am astonished to find I didn’t have to read 250 posts just to catch up with you – but no doubt there will be that many once you are back from Kent. At least the weather here is nice now, so maybe you will get to the beach after all. I hope you have a good holiday.
Watchthatcheese
Hope it is less damp now.
Jo
That is odd. I did see a sign on a van for Baldy Butchers the other day. Maybe it’s a new fashion.
Dotterel
Deeply philosophical!
Sonya
That sounds madly busy even by my standards. Glad you had a fabulous time. I’ve been dying to know how you got on.
Bev
You need to go to the toilets in the bowels of the horsemarket bit.
Alienne
Nope. it’s been a slow blogging summer. Glad to hear from you.xx