Easter - Pizza East

These are from May Day, Bank Holiday Monday and Karen's 40th birthday lunch, at the glorious, Pizza East in Shorditch.

Easter - Barbecue

These are from our first barbecue of the year and a little post Royal Wedding party with our neighbours and local families.

Easter - At Laura and Shiri's

Hello there. I've not had any time during the past couple of weeks to catch up on my blog posts, mainly due to being very busy at work and all my time at home consumed by Ruby, Lucas and clearing up their aftermath. But I finally managed to get a couple of hours in, this Saturday night, to start editing my backlog of photos so should be a few new posts, with my Easter highlights, on their way. This one is from a lovely afternoon we spent at Laura and Shiri's on Easter Sunday, admiring their beautiful new extension and enjoying a great lunch.

Good Friday

I can't tell you just how good the past 10 days have been. Probably the best 10 days I've had since my paternity leave last year, which was one of my all time best weeks ever. It's been like Christmas in Summer, it's been so good. The combination of being mostly at home in London, with my wife and children, with glorious hot and sunny weather, with just about the right amount of things planned to do, catching up on domestic chores (like weeding, hedge cutting and lawn mowing) but also getting in some good trips and seeing some our dearest friends, has just been indescribably happy and I couldn't think of anything I'd rather have done. Blimey, my wife and I even got to have the first meal out together, just the two of us, in living memory and I also got to have a few quality afternoon naps too.
What's more; we also had all the excitement of the build up to the Royal Wedding, the prospect of a new Beastie Boys album (out yesterday) and the big news that the world's most wanted man was found!
Of course, I took far too many pictures so will be quite a while catching up.

Good Friday couldn't have got the holiday off to a better start with a trip with Maisie and her family to see the flags in Regent Street and then, by boat, to see one of last days of Ai WeiWei's Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern. At home, we started on our Easter eggs, had a bit of relaxing time in the garden and had a great meal at the The Island. The little green elephant, is a good luck symbol, bought for Lucas, from Thailand by his Godmother, Lorena, and Godfather, Vittoriano.

Regent Street

We'll be watching the Royal Wedding on TV on Friday but to get us in the mood, we really wanted to show Ruby and Lucas and where it's all happening. So, early on Friday morning, we drove into town to show them Regent Street, which has been magnificently be-decked in union flags and then drove past Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. London looked absolutely stunning, lit by the strong, early morning sun and clear blue skies.