We headed up Oxford St and spent the next few hours looking in shops, but find the fashions in most of them are a certain style that I cant see going down well at home unless maybe you are 15 and stick thin- a lot of it here though is more formal than you see in Hamilton. But it was good still to wander down that very long street (as you will remember from last time Danni!)
We went and sat in a park that is on the edge of Soho and found ourselves in the theatre district so went and booked our seats for the Jersey Boys show tomorrow. Then caught a bus to Oxford St and wandered into the Primark dept store and OMG - literally thousands of people in there as they had a sale on and those of you who know it, will understand.
You could hardly swing your hair let alone a cat! People all bang into each other, no-one says excuse me or sorry, so we just joined in and had a look around- it is definitely cheap as. It was funny….outside there are heaps of husbands sitting, looking either bored or worried lol! Don’t blame them looking at the masses of clothes some women were coming out with.
Back to Bayswater Road to rest our tired legs after that! My knee has been aching here a lot but think it is just the amount of walking we are doing than anything else- but walking in this weather is good- its a really nice temperature, no blue sky but no rain or wind so its been fine.
Had a rest!
then tidied up- Graeme manning the ironing board in the wardrobe!
Before meeting Fiona, Darron and Rachael at a pub for a drink- So good to see them all and looking so great. No-one has changed at all and it was a case of all these kiwi (and Scottish- honorary kiwi!) accents instead of the usual british, polish, german, french and australian ones we usually hear here lol. Moved down the road to the restaurant which was lovely - had very slow service but it worked well for us as we all had so much catching up to do. Would be great to have them all back at Huntly but with everyone thriving in their current environments, we will make do with enjoying tonight!
We talked the night away before seeing Rachael off on the tube ( poor thing hs to work tomorrow) and then we went back to the pub with Fi and Darron for a nightcap. I have passed on all the well wishes from friends at the station and we said goodbye after having my dinner paid for me and a great goodie bag of british chocolates- plus my dessert came out with a happy birthday message (well they made a mistake and put it on Rachaels but it was definitely the thought which counts !) . Very spoilt tonight……
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Great to catch up with those friends huh.
The bumping-into-you-and-bad-manners-crowds in the stores - we always found the Americans a lot more courteous in their homeland than the English/Europeans. Possibly because they are very aware of being sued for something like standing on your big toe?! Ha ha.
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