Sunday

On Sunday we went to Queen's Park day and met up with a big group of local families to celebrate Dolly's second birthday.

Saturday

Apart from a fruitless mission to buy trousers at Westfield, we spent Saturday at home. We did some garden things in the afternoon, picking the last of the apples off the tree, cutting back another tree, mowing the lawn and marveling at all the spiders and their webs. It's a spider's playground at our house at the moment!
We had some nice but not very healthy things to eat; Black pudding and poached eggs for breakfast, fish and chips for lunch and pizza for tea.
One the many things I love about being at home at the weekend is seeing all the things Ruby and Lucas are doing that I don't get to see, while I'm at work, during the week; like Lucas loves being smiled at and beams and coos back. He can roll on his side in his crib and can now shuffle from one end to the other. Ruby is practising singing and loves making 'clip-clop' horse sounds. She's also getting really good at identifying colours and making 3 word sentences.

Post Office Tower

I love the Post Office Tower. I cycle by it most Thursday lunch times and today she looked particularly beautiful, in front of a bright blue sky and a few fluffy clouds.
In the 70's I dreamt of being grown up, living in London and dining in it's rotating restaurant, with beautiful 70's ladies, on a regular basis. Sadly, that didn't happen. For me, she's the Eiffel Tower of London and seeing her, which I do most days, gives me a thrill and makes me feel at home.
She's absolutely up there in my top 5 favourite post-war buildings in London; along side the Trelick, 172 Harrow Road, The Royal College of Physicians and the Penguin House at London Zoo (although technically that was built in the 30's).

Ruby and Lucas

Rest of the Weekend

The rest of our weekend was pretty fantastic too. Jerry's Dad Colomba and his wife Liz are over for a holiday and came round on Friday night for a meal, it was really great to see them.
We had a change from our usual breakfasts on Saturday and had bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon and must do that more often.
On Sunday, Vittoriano and Lorena came over for lunch, bringing with them a lovely shirt they'd bought for my birthday. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of the slow roasted pork belly with sweet braised fennel and all the trimmings, which I'm still trying to make as good as Rupert did and still not bettered.

Coram's Fields

Coram's Fields, in the heart of Georgian Bloomsbury, is becoming one of our very favourite places to go with Ruby and Lucas at the weekend. It's a sinch for us to get to (about half an hour door to door), from Willesden Junction to Euston on the Overground and a wonderful walk down Duke Street (where I used to live), Marchmont Street (one of my top 5 favourite roads in London), through the glorious Brunswick Centre and you're nearly there.
We love it as it's an absolute gem of a children's playground, has loads of animals too, has an ace cafe and gives you a great excuse to eat something good (our first Sushi with Ruby) afterwards in the Brunswick and check out what's on at the Renoir. There was a street festival down Marchmont Street this Saturday too.