30 January: We visit the wife and are greeted by these Christmas lights & music in the hallway!
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Sour cherry lemonade from Waitrose, scones with jam, and Yvonne Spielmann's Video: The Reflexive Medium (contains a chapter on wife's work.) |
Usakousa having a good look at wife's toes & Mauritius beach, while a nameless friend tries to catch their attention. © David Larcher |
At dim t in Gloucester Road: wife holding the last of our starter seafood dumplings and contemplating - penny for your thoughts :-) |
The cod is lovely - in a very fine and crispy batter and aromatic Thai sauce. Pictured here with our side order of mixed veg & some fast moving chopsticks over rice. |
1 February: It's Friday night - time for a little get-together at Cynthia's. | |
Dave's brought 2 bottles of champagne - this Veuve, and what was the other one?? |
My humble contribution: Marks & Spencer's spicy hummous and brown pitta. |
This tiny bunny has had a few months' holiday in Berlin and is now back home. But then Cynthia is ready with even tinier bunnies for me!!! |
And yes, that on the left is a MacBook, and this is the desktop image :-) |
We go to eat at Ida, a cozy family-run Italian restaurant in Kilburn Lane.
Left: UsaKousa hugging our prossecco bottle, with Dave's mobile & Dave's & Cynthia's hands in the background. |
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Cynthia's cheese & pear starter, and Dave's bruchetta with tomatoes. |
And my mixed vegetarian antipasti. (no main course photos - sorry!) |
Back to Cynthia's for more champagne/prossecco. UsaKousa spot a nice blue lamp by the window. |
And the floor is pink... and yellow. |
Cynthia's "cubes corner": a vaccuum cleaner, a speaker, and... ??? |
Discussions on vaccuum cleaners follow... |
2 February: Meeting up with Dave again, to go and see the Laughing in a Foreign Language show at the Hayward. But first we have to have lunch - at the BFI restaurant. | |
My Pinot Grigio, Dave's London Pride, and the little mechanical bunny he's brought along, called MP. |
MP's a busy boy, looking this way or that, whatever the camera people tell him to do... |
Then our food arrives: my grilled salmon + mashed potato with spring onions, the "DIY chip butty" to share, and Dave's tomato & mozzarella. | |
These fat chips are so good - but really filling too! The mustard mayonnaise on the side is also delicious. |
The little guy's now decided to talk to the butter (yes, he talks!) and he seems quite happy doing that... |
Getting back to Heathrow after so much Art, we have a few minutes for a (small but potent) Bloody Mary and a little salad in the BA lounge before our flight back home. |