Weekend

Ibolya and I are away for the next two weekends on stag and hen festival weekends so this weekend was entirely family focused. Starting with peanut butter and toast, while watching more Glastonbury highlights. Followed by a big breakfast at Canteen on Baker Street, followed by a couple of hours at the Princess of Wales playground at Kensington Gardens. Back home for lunch, a family snooze then more play time at Roundwood Park.
Bathtime then a delivery curry dinner with Denis and Thomas, who stayed the night. We caught up with chores on Sunday and a bit of DIY.
It was all together an utterly lovely weekend.

Wedding Anniversary

It's our 4th Wedding Anniversary today! I couldn't put my hands on a good photo from the wedding so here's a rare couple of pictures, with us both in, from our honeymoon in Vienna; in the palatial bathroom of the very posh hotel we stayed in for the first couple of nights and in a compartment on the giant ferris wheel, in the Prater fun fair, where Harry Lime tried to persuade Holly Martins to join his penicillin racket in the 3rd Man.

Birthday BBQ

We had a big birthday BBQ for Lookie last Saturday. The weather was great and he had a garden full of all his friends and neighbors including Milo, Lani, Dixie, his childminding chum Alec, 2 week old baby Mia and his Godmother Jess and Godfathers Jerry and Vittoriano. And what birthday boy could ask for more than a garden sized bouncy castle, which we borrowed for the afternoon.

Zoo

As part of Lookie's first birthday celebrations, last Friday, we spent the morning at London Zoo. Our highlights were the new penguin pool, the butterfly room and the giraffes. To get home, we caught the river bus (actually a barge bus on the canal)back to Little Venice, where we saw a magnificent Citroen DS and then hopped on the tube, back to Wilesden Junction. The birthday boy was tired out by the morning's adventures and slept all the way home.

Clay Works

These, very photogenic, disused clay works, next door to where Ben and Chloe's wedding reception was held, was an unexpected delight, before we set back to London.

Tinker Tailor

I genuinely can't remember the last time I was this excited about a new film.

I loved the BBC version, but with this absolutely phenomenal cast and the genius behind the lens of 'Let The Right One In', it's going to be a long wait until September.