Shiny Happy Crepeys

[Blackduck]

Over here all........

Am staying at the folks so anywhere on a tube line is good!

Well done singers, and Rudy's dd, and would mini Herbs like to come and stay with us for a bit? We badly need a butler. RL quite dominated by my dm and her troubles at the moment, so I am not posting much but am reading.

Under £30 a head max, central London, most importantly nice food. Would be up for any ethnicity bar Indian sub-continent for reasons of domestic overload/nearby fabulousness I would make an exception for the Cinnamon Club but that costs approximately £1,000 a head....

I wish I could think of somewhere for you, MI, but I am woefully ignorant of nice eating places. In fact, dh and I are supposed to be Eating Out tonight as we are child-free and there's nothing on at the cinema. I'm having trouble rousing myself, mainly as ds1 left for Seville at 4.15am today and I couldn't get back to sleep. WIBU to suggest a takeaway in front of Game Of Thrones?

It's going to be 29 deg in Seville tomorrow.

Ooh, yes, Wilbur with beer

prawn on the lawn is fab (chilli spider crab amazing) MI
OR
if you fancy unusual Italian Sapori Sardi
eaten memorably at both.

we are chowing down on Dhs latest culinary creation today;
Tarte Tatin

Cremo Prawn on the Lawn does look good! You know London better than us

in my catering days my little 'research trips' were plentiful.

barrafina very nice for tapas and Look they have a SHERRY menu
can work out expensive if you are hungry tho

Or if tapas tickles your fancy there's Morito (baby sibling to Moro next door which also has a 1001 sherries and the most delicious food....

Or Trullo near the PotL at Highbury corner for fantastic Italian

Or how about Bocca di Lupo in Soho which is very glam but lovely and if you sit at the bar and drink and pick not prohibitive... and you can cross the street for THE best ice cream for pudding afterwards at Gelupo.

Now I'm feeling rather peckish!

I'm now ravenous QQ

Where shall we go Crem?

I think I'd have a drink, perhaps a 'Death In Venice'? here which is a few minutes walk and then head in to Soho for a truck load of Tapas... fancy it?

I've just blagged received a copy of the new Morito cookbook...

I am envious, both of the lovely sounding food and the temperature in Seville; it reached the heady heights of 8.5 degrees C here today.

DH is cooking Italian meatballs using the mince we should have used last night for a moussaka: ended up having fish and chips as after the car episode we didn't have time to cook. I have just got back from choir practice.

anytime QQ! desperate to try St John for the novelty value. Was dandering past the other day and saw Fergus Henderson sitting out the front with a pigs head on his lap. As you do.
I feel the need to be wandering in the warm evening sunshine eating one of those ice-creams from Gelupo.
Where can one get the best Sea Breeze in the city then?

I did indeed pay for it later. We met a friend at the Hendon Air Force museum, in which The boys totally ignored the planes, and just raced around the acres of carpeted space. Which was fine. Then in the children's interactive bit, he had a total meltdown because another boy was pressing a button he wanted, and I had to physically drag him away. At which point he screamed at me to get my hands off him, that he really really hated me, and that he was going away now to get lost.

He did however then ask for a cuddle, and say 'I can't control myself when I feel sad as I haven't got a switch.'

And yesterday said: "there's a windows iPad that runs Mozilla Firefox, Google chrome, internet explorer and safari. I just saw it on a bus advert." He's Four.

I want to be taken in hand by QQ and shown the gastronomic delights of my fair city. I haven't been out Up West for about a gazillion years.

Where did you go MI?
Hope it was good.

NUFC the car episode sounds horrible; having to wrangle little children on the hard shoulder v. nerve-wracking.

Our car behaved beautifully on the drive north yesterday, through some foul weather as well.

Now for a week of intensive singing punctuated by clan-visiting. DD overjoyed to see most of her big cousins. She's brought lots of revision, so we'll see how that goes . DH and I will be immersed in Tallis, Byrd, Ferrobosco and White.

QQ your recommendations are giving me ideas, especially the Italian ones.

Oh, we're not actually out till Friday

I am going out tonight with a couple of friends (including the one both Stropps and CV know). DD1 looked appalled when I announced this and said I am "always going out" in manner of Amish-style husband who thinks I should be at home fulfilling motherly duties.

I have Ladyjogged and made a spicy lentil and tomato soup for lunch when one of DD2's friends is here (see motherly duties above). The testicles await. So to speak.

Are you somewhere nice, Auriga? it was grim here yesterday morning (at least DD's sojourn at the side of the motorway on Sunday was dry, they looked quite cosy huddled in the hedge). She did admit to me later that when we (DH, son in law, and GC) left the hedge and walked to the car, she had visions of her entire family being wiped out!

MI, you had an early start for the holidays. My morning started with making a third attempt to clean the hob after DH's Italian meatballs last night (in this house whoever cooks doesn't clear up after a meal).

Question: should I take/wear to go on holiday my dusky pink short trench mac, or my taupe leather jacket (similar style to a blazer)? I will also be taking an anorak for the bike ride we are going on. Thoughts welcome.

Jacket sounds more holiday-ish....

I may actually have killed the client by the end of the day.

At Gatwick! Fastestcheck-in ever with Norwegian Airlines

DD has undergone a dramatic transorrmation since last night and is now chatting happily after 2 days of sulking and rudeness following the phone debarcle, but is trying to get us to agree to get her a new one for her birthday

Where are you going BTM?