Lighting the way

In the past two months the stand out points would have to be:

Returning to Peterborough for Nicks cousins birthday

Visiting light installation

Hosting our first dinner party in our house

Visiting the Tate Modern museum

Watching Oxford x Cambridge boat race

Picnic at London Fields

Mother Phillips and baby Phillips

Nick and the family

The visit back to Peterborough was a nice little break from the weekend chores at home in London, we travelled up on the train and spent the weekend hanging out with the cool kids who made me feel rather old.  Highlight of the evening is a tie between visiting Primarni (Primark) in the fine town of Corby, possibly the most hole of a town I have ever seen...and...laughing at Jo's (Nicks mum) caravan with a sticker saying "when the caravan's rockin don't come knocking".

 

Tate Modern

Art installation at The Tate

Then we visited the Tate Museum which was really interesting, it is an old power station which has been transformed into Museum for Modern art.  You could easily spend a day there, so much to look at I would recommended comfy shoes.

Afterwards we caught a bite to eat at one of the pubs on the Thames, as we were walking back to the tube I turned around and saw a beautiful photo of St Pauls and just had to take a photo, one for the pool room.

View of St Pauls

Columbia flower market with Henry the Orchid

Columbia rd

One of our more regular weekends activities has become visiting Columbia Flower market on a Sunday which we have been keeping up, our most recent purchase was a pink Orchid for 8 pound which I think I have already almost killed.

I had been itching to have a dinner party ever since we have been here and when the weather started coming good it just had to be done.  Always a good idea at the time, we were cooking and cleaning all weekend and that is no exaggeration, not to mention the mad rush to organise outdoor seating which we purchased from Argos.  Lisa and I spent about 2 hours today staining these picnic tables and they are looking so swisho, all ready for the next shinding!

Antics at the dinner party

We had such a nice day, food went down really well and we spent our time chatting over wine, playing darts and smashing it up on Guitar Hero.

The famous boat race

 As the weather improves we are getting more and more opportunities to get into the great outdoors.  Last weekend we travelled to Hammersmith and set up camp for the Oxford v Cambridge boat race which I can only compare to a cheap and cheerful version of the Melbourne Spring Carnival, luck if you see a boat but you cant go with out seeing a bottle of sparkling.

Lisa slam dunking a AFL footy in a basket ball hoop.

Yesterday we had a lovely picnic at the London fields with a big bunch of us, went past Broadway Market on the was there to pick up some fresh bread, cheese and antipasto goodies.  It felt like I stepped back into the 1980's, everyone dressed like my brother with tight pants, floppy hair and too much leather, there were bicycles everywhere and you couldn't avoid hearing the occasional strum of a guitar of the waft of the burning of some illegal substance.  We brought out the footy and put on a bit of a show, people were clearly curious about why we were kicking a rubgy ball in such a strange fashion.

Was also found a lost child, but then we found its lots parents so the day ended up happy.  If it had of been a lost dog it would have been more fun.

Picnic at London Fields