March roundup

March's roundup includes views from my office, photos taken from the car on all the road trips we've done recently and a few from London.

My Mum - she is more trendy than me!

New year wanderings

We had quite a busy night welcoming in the new year.  It started off with a trip to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park where we had a look around the stalls, ate some, drank some and then went on some rides.  I absolutely love theme park rollercoasters, the higher and the more upside down they go the better - but for some reason I just can't do fairground rides which spin around ever since I squeezed my brothers arm till it went blue on the waltzers.  My lovely husband and uncle twisted my arm to go on what I can only describe as a big claw that swings from side to side while spinning - it certainly made me feel very alive but I was shaking for about an hour afterwards and spent the whole ride holding onto my glasses I bet everyone on the ride were just laughing at me!

Is there anything Spanish that is not nice?

The claw...it went higher trust me...

Would have been much happier on this...

Or this...

We then trekked over to the Thames to welcome in the new year and watch the famous firework display.  It was truly amazing even though there were people everywhere and we had trees obstructing the display a bit.

A birthday and a weekend away

Our one month countdown to the big day started exactly on the Mr's birthday.  Since our wedding meal will be a Spanish feast we decided to head to La Tasca (I live in Basingstoke...) to start the excitement.

The weekend was a busy one as the dress was finally ready to be picked up and since it was all the way in Essex the maid of honour kindly booked a hotel in London for us and mother of the bride.

While the dress had a few last minute alterations we took a walk down a country lane to the most amazing garden centre.  We're getting the wedding flowers from Organic Blooms, a business who grow seasonal cut flowers and so the flowers we end up getting all depend on what survive the change in season that's suddenly begun!  Our trip to the garden centre was a handy trip to see what's around.  

How great is this wildflower garden, I'm definitely going to try and recreate this in our little flower beds at home.

Then off to London we went.

Our hotel was in Paddington where there are lots of Mews, don't you just love a London Mews!!

We had a few drinks in China town and went for a chinese it was great! Oh and then we got a rickshaw back to the hotel but every photographical evidence of that were fuzzy, a bit like my head was at the time :)

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.