The nice weather on Friday morning meant a trip to Regent's Park. It
was my niece's first time on a train and on the tube and she enjoyed it
a lot. The Boy and my niece had a great time in the play area, some fun
looking at the ducks, geese and herons (look mummy this one's got a
blue beak). The children were also fascinated by the old man who was
hand feeding bread to a couple of swans. There they were delicately
removing the pieces of bread from his fingers.
Lunch was not quite as successful. We tried The Garden Cafe (in the
Inner Circle) and were less than impressed. The setting was pleasant
(outside table) and the waitresses were helpful quite nice but they
were let down in a big way by the kitchen, we waited a long time for he
food and could see the other patrons were also getting impatient.
Anybody who has ever been sat at a table with a hungry 2 and a half
year old and waiting for food to turn up will know how it's not an
ideal situation. When the long awaited food finaly turned up it was a
let down. The kedgeree was overly spicy with a pungent curry powder
smell instead of being creamy, smoky and delicately spiced; the tomato
and gruyere tart was swimming in fat and the accompanying salad's
dressing was straight out of a bottle and the seafood salad was rubbery
and tough.
Since it was just down the road we walked to Hamleys at my father's
suggestion so he could buy The Boy a belated birthday present. More
lego pieces for my barefeet to tread on in the morning, yippedydooda.
Introduced my father to Sudoku and he is now totally hooked. When he
left this afternoon it was with a copy of the puzzle in Friday's
Evening Standard to solve on the ferry and with a promise I will send
him some more.
After my family's departure The Boy and I gave Him Indoors a bit of
revision space and hopped on the tube to the London's Transport Musem
Depot at Acton Town to look at tube trains, buses and other London
transport paraphenelia which is not exhibited in Covent Garden due to
lack of space.
Shame it's back to school and back to work tomorrow.
5.6.05 22:29
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Jiiiiim!!! / Website (7.6.05 16:58) Nooooo, that Su Doku/Sudoku/Count Dooku is like crack for the brain. I started doing the one in The Times on the occasional day I had to go to work on the train and now I'm totally addicted. You HAVE to get the Times on Saturday for the Samurai Su Doku, which is five merged Su Doku puzzles. Much more frustrating than the normal thing. |
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(7.6.05 22:59) Sounds horrendous, have you no mercy fat fakir? I do need sleep sometimes you know :-) |
