By Alice | Published:
January 5, 2012
Between Christmas and New Year we visited Kew Gardens, I had been quite ill after Christmas with a horrible tummy bug so this was my first trip out feeling quite pale and delicate. We often seem to go to visit gardens in the winter, they certainly are quieter! :) My dad had strongly recommended we find the Marianne North gallery which is hidden away at the edge of the gardens, it is really interesting, I now strongly recommend it too. Afterwards we paid a very quick visit to the Petersham Nurseries tea house but they’d run out of lunch items so instead we went to Wallace and Co for a quick lunch.
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By Alice | Published:
December 20, 2011
It was my birthday on Sunday and I celebrated with days and days of events spread over two weekends. I really love having my birthday and it’s exactly a week before Christmas so feels very festive and people are in a happy jolly mood.
Birthday number one was with my family, we met at an Italian place for lunch and then went to One Man, Two Guvnors and after we had dinner at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand which is a fun place to eat as it’s very traditional British food and they come and carve at your table.
Birthday number two was going with some friends for pizza and drinking. This was also jointly Simon’s birthday as our birthdays are close. We ate the pizza at La Cucina which was excellent and coped really well with having lots of people.
Then on my actual birthday we had a whole plan of going off to London but the weather was a bit crazy so instead we went for a delicious lunch around the corner at the Magdalen Arms (like last year), and went for a walk. The weather was indeed pretty crazy!
The annual picture of me when I make Simon take one :)
It was a very good birthday.
By Alice | Published:
July 15, 2011
A few weeks ago we headed into London on a very hot day to visit a friend. Going to visit someone in the place they know really well when they have great taste in interesting places is always a winner. On this visit we started with coffee at the Milk Bar (very nice), ate at Little Georgia (delicious), sat around on London Fields (whoa so many fixies/tattoos), had a coffee here (a handy spot), drinks on the terrace at South Bank (love South Bank), then a last few drinks in The French House (missed the last train and had to get the coach). A very fun visit, London you’re alright.
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By Alice | Published:
July 1, 2011
Something else from the other week is that we got to visit the House of Lords again! Every few years Shelter are kind enough to invite Simon and I to their events there. They are a fantastic charity who do so much great work.
I took the Olympus PEN EP1 with me so my handbag wouldn’t be massive like it is when I am toting the Canon but I really miss the big lens when trying to take landscape pictures like this.
We were there under the red awning, nice location!
After the event we met a friend who had been at some political talk and we went over to the Scooter Caffè (again) which is just over the water. It’s funny that even on some random weeknight in London we still bumped into people we knew from Oxford :)
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By Alice | Published:
November 29, 2010
It is FREEZING at the moment. No snow as yet though. I stayed in Wimbledon in London this weekend as there were early starts to go and participate in some recordings.
My corner.
Driving back to Oxford over Battersea Bridge. One night we also drove over Hammersmith Bridge, it looks really interesting, I’d love to go back in the daytime.
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