It’s Tuesday again –
already! Although I’m getting very confused after taking yesterday off work –
but let’s not skip ahead. Back to last Monday, after work I headed to The Miller, close to London Bridge station, for a comedy night. It was top notch,
£5 in and a few quid for a couple of pints and a couple of hours of great
comedians. The headliner was Henning Wehn – if you haven’t heard of him, he’s
definitely worth a look on YouTube.
An early start on Tuesday
saw me leaving Kings Cross at 8am and heading towards Loughborough for another
careers fair. I like doing these fairs but they’re not just a jolly out of the
office – I was completely knackered by the end of the day, so missing the train
back to London wasn’t ideal! I haven’t been to Loughborough in nearly 5 years –
it was weird to see that the places I went to then hadn't changed at all!
Wednesday and Thursday I
was back in the office and catching up with things I’d missed on Tuesday. It
was half term last week so the office was quieter which meant it was possible
for me to take a longer lunch on Friday and head over to North Greenwich (where
our Pier Walk office is) and have lunch at Wagamamas. The special occasion was
one of the IM grads had their last day! After Wagamamas came drink at Jacks and a catch up with the others.
The first Friday I didn’t have to shoot off too – it was good, had a few too many
and fell asleep pissed and prepared for a hungover start to the weekend.
50 Walks
So as I woke up with a
splitting headache and no food in the house I wanted to shrink back under the
duvet and forget about Saturday altogether but that was not to be. And how glad
I am! After tramping round to the corner shop for some bread, beans and 3 Lucozades
I grabbed a route map from my ‘50 London Walks’ packs and set off for
Hampstead. Well, Hampstead is a bit posh innit!!... Veeeeeery nice place is NW3. So
I schlepped all the way around the Heath, past the lovely Kenwood House (where I think they filmed that bit from Notting Hill) and all the way to the top of Parliament
Hill by which point the hang over was well on it’s way out of the system.
Whilst I was on a roll and in the area I headed to Fenton House, a National Trust place that was showing a Stephen Walters exhibition…so that was cool.
Fenton House
Kenwood House
View from Parliament Hill
Later that evening I
headed down to Orpington to be reunited with Jane, Becca and Tom who I haven’t
seen in FAR TOO LONG, about 7 or 8 years. The plan was pizza, vodka and X Factor
but that all swiftly changed once Becca decided she wanted to go out – so off
we go, in to TP’s in Bromley. What a night, lots of dancing, lots of people in
fancy dress. Brilliant.
Dinner in the O2
Sunday and Monday, me and
mum headed back into London and dropped her HUGE suitcase at mine. We went to
Stratford, Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, all along the South
Bank, London Bridge and to the O2 arena… and all the rest. We walked miles and
miles over the two days.
I had such a good weekend. I
ache like a mo’fo but it was totes worth it. Roll on this next week!!
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