These are a few of my favourite things...
Categories: anything-and-everything
Date: 26 November 2006 01:30:49
A fitting heading for my day, if I say so myself, but I have to blame a particular Wiblogger for putting 'Sound of Music' songs in my head this evening (well yesterday now)!!
Anyway, I've had a great day out with TeenSon at one of my favourite places. We tootled down to Camden for the market this morning, while it was still absolutely bucketing it down with rain - though fortunately by the time we got off the Tube it had stopped raining and there was even sunshine and blue sky! Part of my mission today was to find a pair of green tartan DM boots! Unfortunately I failed - how inconsiderate of Doctor Marten to have decided that their weird and wonderful designs this season would all be flowery (I don't do flowery - except for real flowers of course)! And not even the nice man on the big stall with loads of boots had some old ones left. Ho hum... I went back to the same shop about 5 times during the course of the day, trying to decide what to get instead (the poor staff must have wanted to run away screaming the last time they saw me coming!) but ended up with these lovely new boots (well I think so anyway!):
The great thing about Camden is that there are so many places to stop, eat, have a drink, people watch, watch the world go by - and all that when the shopping gets too much! We drifted back into the Ice Wharf a couple of times for refreshment! Though it's not the most characterful place in Camden (some would call that a severe understatement!) it's good if you're with younger family members and also has a lovely outdoor bit by the canal:
(Not the most flattering photo, but hey what can I do about it!!).
The Northern line was its not uncommon 'delight' and having just about avoided the delays and engineering works on the way, when we wandered back down the road to the station to go home there was a massive crowd and it looked like the station had just reopened. Rather than play squash-the-traveller with all the others, I decided we'd wander down to King's Cross instead (so managing to avoid a Tube change as well). This little walk took us past Mornington Crescent station and TeenSon volunteered to take a piccie of me there so that the next time I'm playing the great game, and find myself at the winning station I can post the real thing! Well, that was the plan, but this is the photo... it is Mornington Crescent...honest... really!
So, there you have it, a great day... and just a few of my favourite things!