the weather has finally started to turn more to my liking. last night toby and i took a walk (we checked out a different area than we normally do, going right on abbey road rather than left) and i wore jeans AND a long sleeve shirt. toby even had on a sweatshirt. it was perfect fall feeling weather. i know we have the whole month of august to get through and i really shouldn't be wishing for cold weather, but it has been so unbearable lately. the city is really no place for heat.
today we're going to check out the movie The Break Up because we're hoping that the funny adverts lead to a funny film, though that isn't always the case. then we are going to BOOK october 7th. yes, we will finally have an actual placed booked for the big day and we're taking a chance because it'll be outside. it's a really lovely place and there will heaters and umbrellas and it'll be early october, so maybe a nice indian summer?
Free Masons Arms click this link and then chose the hampstead one.
right, i'm off to starbucks now because i want a fancy coffee and sadly, that' my only option.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
rome 2
more pictures...
us at the colessum (heck i know i'm spelling it wrong but i just can't think right now...dinner is soon)
the stairway of our hotel (hotel aphrodite) we stayed on the 5th and top floor.
the trevi fountain. i know you can't see much of the fountain, but aren't we lovely?:
seriously, is that bus even worth it?
us at the colessum (heck i know i'm spelling it wrong but i just can't think right now...dinner is soon)
the stairway of our hotel (hotel aphrodite) we stayed on the 5th and top floor.
the trevi fountain. i know you can't see much of the fountain, but aren't we lovely?:
seriously, is that bus even worth it?
our first holiday together...aawwhh
let's see...to start i'll be short and sweet for all pictures. it'll be like a boring slide show :)
here we are at the roman forum. picture was taken by a very cool lady that looked like annie lennox. she had black hair that was shaved expect for a bit hanging down from her bangs.
toby ordered a liter....just wasn't thinkin'...
ah yes, the obilgatory gelato. caffe for me and menthe for the tobe...
the famous colessum. it's beautiful.
here we are at the roman forum. picture was taken by a very cool lady that looked like annie lennox. she had black hair that was shaved expect for a bit hanging down from her bangs.
toby ordered a liter....just wasn't thinkin'...
ah yes, the obilgatory gelato. caffe for me and menthe for the tobe...
the famous colessum. it's beautiful.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
i'm warning you!
today i was watching the bbc morning weather report, which is always useless. today it gave me a bit of a laugh. the weather chick said "there is a high pollen count today, so, i'm warning you" then she went on to mention it'll be warm in belfast too. i've never had a weather person WARN me before. what am i supposed to do? hide indoors?
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
the disco dudes and the mayor
judge dredd's on tv right now. quality film, don't you think? the other day they had on demolition man. now that's a movie i love. taco bell is mentioned throughout and i like the taco bell, though i haven't had it for awhile. i think it's stallone week or something.
anyway.
last weekend we had another saturday. in the morning we cheered on our friend, linda, during her race for the cure. toby took a picture as she went by, but the the darn digital camera had a "memorystick error". now, you wouldnt' get that with a normal camera would you? oh well.
then we headed over to the rise festival in finsbury park. it's a festival against racism. so, of course there were carnival rides and overpriced food. free entry though and if we would have put some thought into it, we would have brought a blanket, food, and beer of our own. lots of others did (so there was trash everywhere as we left). the main stage had varied acts. the duke spirit were good. i'd like to hear them in a club or something, as the sound system at this place wasn't the greatest. sway was next. some crap rapper who shouted things like "hey london say yeah, etc, etc..." then common, another rapper, but apparently this one spoke the "truth" as the presenter told us. then graham coxon formerly of blur. i wasn't impressed. later on in the evening the wailers, as in bob marley and the wailers were going to come on, but we left right after one of coxon's songs.
the highlights of the day. there was an open-top doubledecker with a guy rockin' out on the turntable. a crowd of people waited around for some breakdancing. i was a-hoping for a dance off, but, alas, no one was served.
then we saw two old guys all dressed up for no particular reason. clearly wearing wigs and everything. i just HAD to get a picture and not just a shy, let's quickly get a picture of them and run away, but instead i walked right up to them and got in on the action.
the other highlight involves the mayor of london, ken livingston, and no pictures. we were waiting in line at the ice cream van and toby points to my immediate left. ken's standing there wiping a very grassy popsicle on his shorts. one of the two little kids he was with must have dropped it. i just thought that was absolutely wonderful. then later on, ken was back onstage introducing graham coxon and saying how great he thought graham was. well, he must not of thought he was too great. remember how i said we left after the first coxon song? we headed to the tube station right after and who do we see? ken and the kids again! weird, huh? i thought we lost him for a bit when we changed trains, but nope, he followed us right on to the jubilee. and that was the last we saw of ken for the day. still a bit odd though to never see the mayor of london and he's right there following you.
anyway.
last weekend we had another saturday. in the morning we cheered on our friend, linda, during her race for the cure. toby took a picture as she went by, but the the darn digital camera had a "memorystick error". now, you wouldnt' get that with a normal camera would you? oh well.
then we headed over to the rise festival in finsbury park. it's a festival against racism. so, of course there were carnival rides and overpriced food. free entry though and if we would have put some thought into it, we would have brought a blanket, food, and beer of our own. lots of others did (so there was trash everywhere as we left). the main stage had varied acts. the duke spirit were good. i'd like to hear them in a club or something, as the sound system at this place wasn't the greatest. sway was next. some crap rapper who shouted things like "hey london say yeah, etc, etc..." then common, another rapper, but apparently this one spoke the "truth" as the presenter told us. then graham coxon formerly of blur. i wasn't impressed. later on in the evening the wailers, as in bob marley and the wailers were going to come on, but we left right after one of coxon's songs.
the highlights of the day. there was an open-top doubledecker with a guy rockin' out on the turntable. a crowd of people waited around for some breakdancing. i was a-hoping for a dance off, but, alas, no one was served.
then we saw two old guys all dressed up for no particular reason. clearly wearing wigs and everything. i just HAD to get a picture and not just a shy, let's quickly get a picture of them and run away, but instead i walked right up to them and got in on the action.
the other highlight involves the mayor of london, ken livingston, and no pictures. we were waiting in line at the ice cream van and toby points to my immediate left. ken's standing there wiping a very grassy popsicle on his shorts. one of the two little kids he was with must have dropped it. i just thought that was absolutely wonderful. then later on, ken was back onstage introducing graham coxon and saying how great he thought graham was. well, he must not of thought he was too great. remember how i said we left after the first coxon song? we headed to the tube station right after and who do we see? ken and the kids again! weird, huh? i thought we lost him for a bit when we changed trains, but nope, he followed us right on to the jubilee. and that was the last we saw of ken for the day. still a bit odd though to never see the mayor of london and he's right there following you.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
last saturday or was it the other saturday?
so, i'm finally writing about last saturday, although i think it is actually the saturday before last saturday. anyway...
it started out with a nice walk around hampstead.
we walked around kenwood house which has a lot of lovely painting and, to my surprise, a rembrandt self-portrait. it's not even in glass or anything you can just walk right on up and touch it, though we didn't. toby did touch the velvet-like carpet wall though!
then we got hungry and needed a hot dog. so we wandered on over to soho to try and find bodeans. a bbq restaurant that has BIG hotdogs.
there was a lot of activity in soho. we weren't postive what was going on, but by the time we got to regent's street we had it figured out. gay pride parade! it just puts a smile on the face :)
then we headed back home for the england quarter final match. well, we all know how that went. i suggested we go do some kiteflying to cheer the tobe up.
and aren't those the dirtiest shoes you've ever seen? they used to be red. crazy
it started out with a nice walk around hampstead.
we walked around kenwood house which has a lot of lovely painting and, to my surprise, a rembrandt self-portrait. it's not even in glass or anything you can just walk right on up and touch it, though we didn't. toby did touch the velvet-like carpet wall though!
then we got hungry and needed a hot dog. so we wandered on over to soho to try and find bodeans. a bbq restaurant that has BIG hotdogs.
there was a lot of activity in soho. we weren't postive what was going on, but by the time we got to regent's street we had it figured out. gay pride parade! it just puts a smile on the face :)
then we headed back home for the england quarter final match. well, we all know how that went. i suggested we go do some kiteflying to cheer the tobe up.
and aren't those the dirtiest shoes you've ever seen? they used to be red. crazy
Thursday, July 06, 2006
holiday for me!
i just really like that picture. anyway,
i wanted to write about the lovely saturday we had LAST weekend, but i haven't uploaded the pictures yet, so that can't happen right away.
i CAN report that we are going to ROME! hurrah, yippee, wahooo. i'm very excited and can barely concentrate on anything else. we're leaving on the 20th of july for 3 nights. toby's never been, so we'll get to do all the fun touristy stuff AND i'm going to buy some REAL film for my camera and get to taking some lovely photos. yes, i've got rolls and rolls of film from rome already, but none with toby pictures, so i'm looking forward to it even more.
hope your summers are all going to according to plan!
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