We arrived back at Stansted Airport mid afternoon on Monday, which made the journey back to our flat a nice change from the usual late night rush. Still armed with our tickets for the Stansted Express train after the debacle a few weeks earlier, we jumped onto the train and headed back home.
Unluckily we found out that at the same time as we were riding the train home, the headliners of Bridget Jones’s Baby – Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey – were in Roslyn’s office filming an interview.
On Wednesday night Roslyn busted out an exfoliating facemask and with some still left over, the rest made its way onto Brendan’s face. After the required amount of time had passed, Roslyn went into the bathroom to wash off. Shortly after, the fire alarm in the flat started loudly ringing. Our building has a communal fire alarm system, and the only reset panel is upstairs by the front door. Embarrassingly Brendan ran out there to turn it off, green facemask and all, hoping not to be spotted. Of course, this did not happen, and he was sprung by our own next door neighbours who had also come out to investigate the noise.
Roslyn spent most of Saturday setting up her share of 26,000 breezeblock dominoes as part of the Great Fire 350 festival, commemorating the great fire of 1666. Trending under the tag #dominoes350, the total length of the route stretched to 7 kilometres, along streets, across city squares and even through buildings, such as The Crosse Keys pub just near Roslyn’s area in a quant alleyway.
Brendan came along to watch later in the evening. At 6.30pm the first domino was knocked over at The Monument (originally built to commemorate the fire) and from there the line split into three separate trails. Brendan, along with a lot of other really keen folk, followed the trail to the fiery finale near The Gherkin.
We headed to South Kensington on Sunday, to experience a little culture and educate ourselves some more. Firstly we strolled around the grand Victoria and Albert Museum, commonly known as the V&A, stopping for a snack in the central courtyard.
Afterwards, we strolled through the nearby Science Museum where we took part in a rather odd psychological study. We were given a scenario to read and surveyed on whether we considered it wrong for a hypothetical human-like creature to find a wallet and then keep the money inside of it, and were then asked nearly the exact same questions again but under the premise that a human had did it.
There was also an interactive exhibit where the computer was supposed to be able to recognise your “happiness level”, age and gender by its inbuilt camera scanning your face. The results weren’t great and the computer garnered less than favourable guesses for both of us.
We rounded out the weekend watching the broadcast of the wooden London 1666 sculpture being set alight and burned on the River Thames.
Highlights for the week:
- Return from Morocco
- Cast of Bridget Jones’s Baby in Roslyn’s office
- Brendan having to reset the fire alarms while wearing a facemask
- Roslyn helped set up 26,000 breezeblock dominoes
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Science Museum
- Watched the burning of the London 1666 sculpture
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