22 July 2007
What a lovely sunny day it has been! It has been a lovely weekend, all in all. The middle blister and family Chakra(ex)hongkies came a visiting. We went to see if the fish and chips in the Sea Cow were as good as the Guardian review said or if standards were going off as I said. Actually, it was pretty good.
Then, we all piled back to the homestead to avoid the intermittent downpours, sadly missing out on fudge from Hope and Greenwood. Not one bookshop in East Dulwich was selling Harry Potter, so I didn't manage to support local business by spending way over the premium for my edition.
Middle blister spent the next two hours reading Harry Potter. The rest of us fought over the X-Box to see who could crash the most in Colin McRae's Dirt. Curly was not impressed and wanted to be taught German from my Usborne's German for Beginners.
Today, we went to town to buy new shirts for BB and Harry Potter for me. Lunched at Canteen, which still has pretty decent food, but the service is no better at the new Southbank branch than it is at the Spitalfields branch. The waiter didn't know the specials, tried to flog us carton orange juice passed off as freshly squeezed, asked us about three times what our order was, brought us the wrong bill and when we asked for the bill said, 'Why? Are you in a hurry?' The mayo was also slightly curdled. I know they do well, but they really shouldn't rest on their laurels.
By the river there were some new sculptures of people who looked like they were emerging from large lumps of poo. One of them looked like he was projectile vomiting water. Anything passes for art these days...
Then, we all piled back to the homestead to avoid the intermittent downpours, sadly missing out on fudge from Hope and Greenwood. Not one bookshop in East Dulwich was selling Harry Potter, so I didn't manage to support local business by spending way over the premium for my edition.
Middle blister spent the next two hours reading Harry Potter. The rest of us fought over the X-Box to see who could crash the most in Colin McRae's Dirt. Curly was not impressed and wanted to be taught German from my Usborne's German for Beginners.
Today, we went to town to buy new shirts for BB and Harry Potter for me. Lunched at Canteen, which still has pretty decent food, but the service is no better at the new Southbank branch than it is at the Spitalfields branch. The waiter didn't know the specials, tried to flog us carton orange juice passed off as freshly squeezed, asked us about three times what our order was, brought us the wrong bill and when we asked for the bill said, 'Why? Are you in a hurry?' The mayo was also slightly curdled. I know they do well, but they really shouldn't rest on their laurels.
By the river there were some new sculptures of people who looked like they were emerging from large lumps of poo. One of them looked like he was projectile vomiting water. Anything passes for art these days...
# posted by gilamonster : 22:11
