We’re having double glazing put in at the moment and while the fitters were hard at work, I went down to the shop to pick up some beverage sundries. When I came back, I saw Sili (aptly named feline) hanging out of the space where the bathroom window once was. It didn’t surprise me in the slightest.
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I got an email from “eBay” this morning claiming I needed to “update my billing information”. Of course, this was really just phishing for my eBay account details so they could happily defraud me and sully my good eBay name by defrauding others and bidding on Spice Girl merchandise. So, naturally, I clicked on the link to “eBay” supplied in the email.
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My boss has started eating “luxury” yoghurts every day with his lunch. I suggested to him that it is a bourgeois dessert and consequently, he will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. He accepted this with aplomb, as any man eating creamy Lactobacillus bulgaricus would. I then suggested that Bush would eat luxury yoghurts, which caused him to put down his little plastic spoon and announce that such a suggestion was going too far.
I’m sure Bush would only eat luxury yoghurts when he had company and Laura made him so he didn’t look stupid in front of the Prime Minister of Norway or whatever: most the time he would prefer those Fruit Corner types with either sweets or a toy in the corner. He’d probably choke on the toy though.
We checked out of the hotel about 1000 and went over to Covent Garden for some breakfast. I just went for my usual croissant option but John went for sticky maple syruppy waffles instead.
When he came down from his sugar rush, we got the tube over to South Kensington to go to the Natural History and Science museums – the reason we had planned the trip to London in the first place.
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After Budapest, we still had a few days holiday left so we decided to have a night in London. We travelled down on the Thursday and arrived at Kings Cross about 1330. From there, we went straight to Leicester Square by tube to buy tickets for the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s “The Bible” from the half price Tckts booth.
Our purchase made, we looked around for somewhere for lunch and ended up at the Mediterranean Kitchen on St Martin’s Terrace – we picked there because they used a nice clean, simple font on their signs/menus (I wish I was kidding about this; I’m a sucker for nice clean fonts). The lunch was very nice: we had a meze selection to share to start and then I had a tuna nicoise salad for my main course and John had a goats cheese and roast vegetables in filo pastry thing. The service was excellent even though we looked like scruffy bums with our backpacks and it cost about the same as it would up here.
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We had to be back at the hotel at 1330 for the minibus back to the airport so after breakfast, we decided we only had time for a quick trip up to Margit Island – the biggest island in the middle of the Danube.
We got the HEV from Batthyany metro stop up to Arhad Pad station (on the Buda side) then walked for an eternity across the scorchingly hot bridge. There probably was a better way to the island with buses and stuff but trains are easier… Anyway, the sprinklers were most welcome when we got there and we walked around in the shade of the trees for a while. We headed to the old water tower and were most amused/shocked to discover an orchestra and choir practising behind a curtain. On the way back to the station, we met a tabby cat who was very friendly. :)
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