Categories: random
Tags: London, shopping, friends, party, date
Date: 11 September 2006 09:20:27
I jetted off to London very early on Saturday morning, as it was the 40th birthday party of a good friend of mine. I caught up with loads of people I'd not seen for years (friends of his who moved away from London, or people that I've known through him but who weren't London-based), bopped, ate, chatted, laughed and generally had a fab time. I also got to see my godson (40-yr-old-friend's son), he's such a great kid. When I arrived in Brockley (I was staying there again, unsurprisingly) I had to walk to my friend's place where I was staying the night through streets that I covered when I was health visiting, so I kept finding myself thinking "oh, such-and-such a kid lives there, he must be 3 by now". I didn't bump into any former clients though.
Then yesterday I managed to snatch a few hours with HD who had been visiting his family (near-ish London) for the weekend. The weather turned out to be lovely and warm so we spent most of the time sunbathing in St James' Park (which is my favourite of the central London parks), apart from a bit of a shoe-shopping diversion (Miss Lisa would have been proud of me) due to my (normally comfy and well-behaved) boots having given me some evil blisters. In St James' Park we discovered that trying to snuggle isn't very easy when you're in deckchairs.
In other news, I'm getting confirmed this coming Sunday!