New Covent Garden Flower Market

Thank you so much for the comments on my last post, you're all so lovely.

A couple of weekends ago I got up the frightful hour of 5am on a Saturday(!!!) to go to New Covent Garden flower market in London.  Jay organised a trip primarily for her brides and grooms so they can get a feel for all the flowers available and then a few friends like me went too.  

I wasn't going to blog about the trip because I didn't really take many photos I was too busy wowing at all the flowers but I enjoyed myself so much I thought I would show a few of the flowery pics, certainly some I had never seen before!

For some much more professional photos see Jays blog.  There are some great photos that tell a much better story of what we got up to and you can see the crate I bought, I shall be making a herb garden very soon....

Black and white town

Yesterday I picked up the prints from a film we had taken photos on  last year.  The first part of the film was from a day we spent in London which included a trip to Borough Market and the second part is coming up later.  We're really happy with the photos and have promised to use the SLR more and get the photos developed a lot sooner!

Borough Market

Yesterday we had to go to London and pick up the wedding rings we have had made and it's fair to say we've enjoyed our "excuses" for London recently.  After doing some other wedding errands we headed quite late in the day to Borough Market.

I love food markets, back home we visit farm shops and farmers markets quite a lot wishing we had the cash to do our "weekly shop" but just walking around them and looking at what all the passionate people have to offer is exciting enough for me.

This fish counter was great and this chap was practically giving the fish away.  The advice is to go to the market very early in the day to avoid crowds and get the food at its freshest but at 4pm you can get some great deals!

Oh to be a florist!

I got our Diana Mini film developed today which was packed full of our recent camping trip but yesterday had one more picture left and thought we would capture our mugs.  I love film photography as often in my case I forget what was taken at the beginning of the film so it's always an exciting surprise. Our SLR had a black and white film of our camping trip which will get developed soon so looking forward to blogging that!

South Bank festival

South Bank was buzzing at the weekend! There is a festival going on most weekends until the beginning of September and we managed to bump into the action surrounding a vintage festival fair.  Behind the Royal Festival Hall was a great food festival.  We walked around and enjoyed the smells and sat with a drink - the Mr had a large Polish beer and I had a really rather strong cider.  


London really is very nice when the sun shines.