London Adventures

A couple of weeks ago there was a suprise warm up show for Green Day in preparation for their Reading and Leeds Festival appearances. It was at Brixton Academy which is a venue I have always wanted to go to. So I went! I got the train straight after work, rushed to the gig and loved every minute of it! They played a few random songs then went into playing Dookie in full. Then more random songs. I managed to get a few rows from the front and it was hot and pushy. But that's fine! I'm really glad to have seen them in a couple of small venues recently, as much as the stadium shows are a spectacle, these smaller shows have a different atmosphere.





Yes I am sad enough to take pictures of coffee

Long way down...

I already had the Thursday off so decided to have a full day in London, I was meant to be having my hair done but my awful roots were not as important as shopping! For breakfast I hit Department of Coffee and Social Affairs on Leather Lane, amazing name, amazing drinks. It's right in Hatton Gardens so I eyed up the diamonds. I then got the tube to Monument. Purely to find out what the Monument was. I ended up walking up 311 steps to the top of a tower built to remember the Great Fire of London. At the top you get a great view of London, I imagine it would have been amazing before all the crazy tall buildings. But for 3 quid you can't really complain! Apart from sore legs...

I then went to Brick Lane, for graffiti, vintage and Tatty Devine. I saw this amazing elephant/octopus which I'm sure wasn't there when Natalie and I hit the Sunday market in July. I treated myself to many dresses and a pumpkin carriage necklace from Tatty Devine. This brand is really what got me into making jewellery and I have always admired it from afar. But I saw this and had to have it!




















I spent ages walking around Spitalfields market and then to Oxford Street for some Topshop and Selfridges time. Shockingly, I did not buy anything. I had an hour left before my train so I got the tube to Camden to get an ice cream from the Chin Chin Laboratory. This time I had the Tonka Walnut Whip with salted caramel sauce, heather honeycomb and a little sample of grilled white chocolate. Lush. I ate that while wandering round then it was time to go home...

 

This is a random mosaic at Tottenham Court Road tube station