There seemed to be a glimpse of hope that the temperatures would get warmer, with increased sunshine throughout the week. On one of the sunnier days, Brendan was lured outside for lunch but despite the sun it was too cold to stay outside for long.
On Thursday Brendan
saw a most unusual sight on the streets of South Kensington, an Australian Ford
Territory sporting AU55 numberplates (surely representative of Auss and not
just a coincidence!)
Roslyn visited The
View from The Shard on Friday for work research. Spread across floors 68, 69
and 72, The View is London’s highest viewing point and presents a large, triple
height internal viewing gallery area plus an open-air viewing platform on floor
72, providing over 500 sq m in total of high altitude event space. The price to
hire this exceptional space starts from £7,200 (or roughly $14,400 AUD) for an
hour and a half morning breakfast, and stretch well beyond that for evening
events.
For only the second
time since we arrived in London, we went to the movies on Saturday having
realised that London & Partners employees are eligible for significantly
reduced (almost half price!) tickets. The cinema at nearby Wandsworth was a
significant step up from the run down venue we visited in Week
27. How To Be Single is a bit of a chick flick, admittedly most of the
people in there were female and quite a few of them single – maybe they were hoping
to learn something. But Australian actress Rebel Wilson is so versatile and funny
that the experience wasn’t too much of a stereotypical cringe worthy chick
flick. Saturday was a drizzly and dreary day, and so not worth doing much else.
The rain subsided
slightly for Sunday and off the back of a something seen on Facebook by Brendan’s
cousin, Ali, we went over to the cosmopolitan Soho where Cadbury had opened a
pop-up Creme Egg Café. Running for only seven weeks, the pop up was only open from
5pm on Fridays, and after 2pm on Saturday and Sunday. We arrived at around
1:30pm, and already people were lined up around the block waiting to get in for
takeaway Cadbury Creme Egg toasties from the ground floor.
The dining room on
the first floor provided a more eggs-aggerated menu, with Creme Egg and
Soldiers, Creme Egg Tray Bake, or Strawberries and Creme Egg. The tickets to
the dining room sold out nearly as soon as the concept was announced, well
before we’d heard about it. The second
floor housed an adult ball pit. The proceeds of the café are to be donated to
charity.
After an eggs-cruciating
wait outside, we got in and grabbed our toasties for £2 each and then moved
over to the line-up for the ball pit. While you wait, you can press a button on
the wall and a free Creme Egg will come rolling down a mysterious plastic tube
from out of sight upstairs. The button definitely gets a decent work out.
Eventually we were
allowed upstairs into the ball pit (it is quite small and only eight people at
a time are allowed) to wade around in the ocean of plastic balls.
Considering
the awkward afternoon time, we were eggs-ited to find some late lunch/early
dinner, and so ended our weekend at the nearby upmarket Indian restaurant,
Dishoom.
Highlights for the
week:
- Ford Territory spotted
in South Kensington
- Roslyn went up to
The View from The Shard
- Went to the
cinema and saw How To Be Single
- Cadbury Creme Egg
Café
- Adult ball pit
- Dishoom for late
lunch/early dinner
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