Showing posts with label south kensington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south kensington. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Delightful days

Another two happy days with Stephanie. Off out on Friday, bus up to the west-end and a delicious lunch in M&S and then onto the Science Museum in South Kensington. Well my lovelies I hadn't been there for many a year. Oh how it has changed. We were rather taken by the ground floor but not so enamoured by the higher ones, in fact they got worse the higher we went. Ah childhood memories of flicking switches and turning handles, all gone. Herds of school children of course but we walk round unnoticed.

A minor hiatus when Stephanie loses her handbag but it is soon found, phew! Off out into the cold and a bus back to the west-end. We dive into Superdrug as Stephanie needs some new razors. Well as you can imagine it is one of life's little laughs buying male sundries whilst en femme.
After dinner we take ourselves off the Ikea at Brent Park for various items. Quite amazing we only get a couple of quizzical looks.
Today, well morning is photo time followed by lunch an a visit to Brent Cross. Of course it is much more crowded than weekdays but it doesn't stop us, oh dear me no.

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Well we started late this week, a visit to IKEA first then back home and out again. An outdoor photoshoot with a goth theme in a graveyard. Quite atmospheric with an over grown graveyard but not so much that we couldn't get about. Then it was back home for lunch then putting the IKEA purchase together and that was the day gone.

Off out today and what a glorious day it was. Off to South Kensington and the Natural History Museum. Quite disappointing actually, well it was not our thing but we needed somewhere new. We hop the bus up to Oxford Street and pop into Pret for an early lunch. Supposedly I made an impression on the nice young man behind the counter, mmmm well not as much as the young woman who was in front of me LOL. A quick visit into M&S and Superdrug then its off to South Ken.

As I say we were not that impressed. Of course there were hordes of schoolchildren and we came to the conclusion that the museum is laid out with them in mind. The descriptions of the exhibits are what I would expect to see in a junior school classroom. Most disappointing is the amount of dust on the exhibits!



Still we had a lovely day topped off but a glorious walk across Hyde Park in the spring sunshine. As I said to Stephanie, its called taking it to the people. Most amusing thing was our arrival home. As we are about turn the last corner one of my neighbours is coming in the opposite direction. Well what can you do? Nothing you smile sweetly and greet them of course, bwahahahahahahahahaha! I refuse to hide and am definitely not embarrassed or ashamed of how I am so it is a case of put up or shut up.