This Is What Celebrations Look Like...

...in the Red Boots household.

We ate three cupcakes each, and barely had room for dinner!

I will reveal our cause for celebration shortly...!

xx

ps: boyfriend's back!

Why I've Been So Good...

...At blogging lately: boyfriend has been in Scotland for a week.

I've enjoyed a bit of time to myself: wandering, pondering and attempting to be creative, but I'm ready for him to come back now.

I like this photo, but my, we are a hairy pair.

xx

London Adventures...

...I mentioned yesterday I took a trip to London, to indulge in touristy things.

I'd hoped to have lots of photos to share, but some fool forgot to put the memory card back in their camera, so I had to rely on my Holga for company. Unfortunately she played up, so I don't have high hopes of the photos I took...

First stop was the Queen's house:
Not my photo: from Flickr user jonk

I personally don't hold the Queen in very high opinion: after getting up early in the morning and travelling all that way she didn't even invite me in for a cup of tea!

After Buckingham Palace I enjoyed the sights of Piccadilly Circus, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Covent Garden, a spot of shopping on Regent and Oxford Streets, the Southbank area, and finally Westminster. I can thoroughly recommend my route - if anyone wants a map, along with locations of good coffee shops then drop me an e-mail.

I was quite quite hungry by this point, and in need of a cheap eat in London (a rare thing) so I headed to St Thomas's Hospital in Waterloo. Despite being a hospital they have a gorgeous cafe open to the public, the food and drink are yummy and cheap (I got a meal and a drink for the princely sum of £4.55) and you get the best view in London of Big Ben. It is also the quietest spot in the whole of central London (another rare thing), so I managed to take a self-portrait on the banks of the Thames, overlooking Big Ben and Waterloo Bridge with the one space my digital camera would allow for in the absence of a memory card:


Although it was nearby, I didn't go on the London Eye - I was on it at the end of last year. It's a bit pricey, and you have to share your pod with about 15 strangers, but you do get a nice view, especially if you go on a good day. I didn't, but that's what you get in going in November:


I will post my Holga photos as soon as I get them developed (if they develop).

I've been obssessed with the Southbank Flickr project that I mentioned yesterday, and so I've found some more favourites:

That's enough now: I promise! Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

xx

I Took a Trip to London Today...

...And visited the Southbank Centre. While I was there I took part in a participatory art project that's currently streaming on Flickr. What you had to do was sum up your visit to the Southbank Centre on a board. I wanted to be prosaic and profound, but my mind went blank all I could come up with was:

Oh well, the thought was there.

You can see the whole stream here.

My personal favourite is this one, which has nothing to do with the Southbank Centre at all:

More about London tomorrow.

xx

Have You Heard...

{image courtesy of: www.dundee.ac.uk}

... of Jason Molina? I utterly adore his way with words.

The lyrics from "Being In Love" are gorgeous:

"Being in love means you are completely broken then put back together - the one piece that was yours is beating in your lovers breast".

Sigh.

xx

I'm A Little Bit Scared...

...After I uploaded my last post this appeared on my screen:

I think I'm being haunted by teeth.

Note to self: floss daily AND brush after all meals.

xx

A Note...

...To the random lady I met in the chemist:

Thank you so much for showing me your dentures, even though I did not ask to see them. I have often been curious as to what dentures actually look like. I also didn't realise that having dentures could change the shape of a persons face so much.

My favourite bit of our meeting, however, was when you showed me your two natural teeth. I was over-awed as to how yellow they were, and how empty your mouth looked without your dentures in. I was very pleased to hear that you found a product in the chemist that will whiten your two teeth: however I think my urge to be a little bit sick perhaps outweighed your joy in finding said tooth whitening product.

Love Wendy.xx

Note to self: must floss several times daily.