Today was my brilliant sister Jennifer’s 60th birthday. I can hardly believe that my wee sister is 60! I sent her a Happy Birthday message and we will see her at her party tomorrow. This morning we decided to go to the Crystal Maze, which is near Covent Garden. James and I visited the Manchester Crystal Maze in February 2022 with Davie and Chanel and we enjoyed it very much, so we were excited to visit the London version. It was good fun and we were encouraged by our very enthusiastic guide. In Manchester we were in a group just the four of us. This time we were with a London family, which made eight. Luckily they were very pleasant and we all took turns doing the challenges and cheering each other on. All of our boys watched the Crystal Maze with us in the 1990s so I think that Alasdair liked that it feels almost as if you are in the tv programme!
Cat had booked RedFarm Restaurant just along from Leicester Square, a modern Chinese restaurant with absolutely delicious dumplings and an interesting dish of soup which was sucked with a straw from the inside of a large dumpling. Having consumed the soup you then turned over the dumpling and ate it. Then we went for a walk and a browse around Covent Garden market and had coffee and cake in the Rose Bakery in Dover Street Market, perhaps the trendiest shop I have ever been in, with designer label clothes on every level. The prices were eye-watering and most of the clothes too extreme for my taste, but some of them were very attractive especially some Comme Des Garçons blouses in pretty pastel patterns. We noticed that nearly all of the other customers were wearing distinctive looking designer clothes. The highlight for me was noticing a customer wearing a pair of shoes with the appearance of another pair of shoes on top - by this I mean each shoe had another full size front and toe area sitting on top of the one where her foot was inserted. Hard to describe but it looked very bizarre.
Exhausted by walking and fashion, we went back to Ally and Cat’s flat and played Sonic racing on PS4. James and I have never played computer games, it’s just something we never really tried, and it was great fun! We watched part of an old episode of the Crystal Maze which confirmed that our experience today was authentic! And we finished the evening by watching a really interesting tv programme called Omnivore that Ally and Cat have been watching recently; a well known chef takes a deep look into a particular area of food each episode. This one was called Pig, about Iberian pork and it was both sensitive and fascinating.
Cat had booked RedFarm Restaurant just along from Leicester Square, a modern Chinese restaurant with absolutely delicious dumplings and an interesting dish of soup which was sucked with a straw from the inside of a large dumpling. Having consumed the soup you then turned over the dumpling and ate it. Then we went for a walk and a browse around Covent Garden market and had coffee and cake in the Rose Bakery in Dover Street Market, perhaps the trendiest shop I have ever been in, with designer label clothes on every level. The prices were eye-watering and most of the clothes too extreme for my taste, but some of them were very attractive especially some Comme Des Garçons blouses in pretty pastel patterns. We noticed that nearly all of the other customers were wearing distinctive looking designer clothes. The highlight for me was noticing a customer wearing a pair of shoes with the appearance of another pair of shoes on top - by this I mean each shoe had another full size front and toe area sitting on top of the one where her foot was inserted. Hard to describe but it looked very bizarre.
Exhausted by walking and fashion, we went back to Ally and Cat’s flat and played Sonic racing on PS4. James and I have never played computer games, it’s just something we never really tried, and it was great fun! We watched part of an old episode of the Crystal Maze which confirmed that our experience today was authentic! And we finished the evening by watching a really interesting tv programme called Omnivore that Ally and Cat have been watching recently; a well known chef takes a deep look into a particular area of food each episode. This one was called Pig, about Iberian pork and it was both sensitive and fascinating.
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