12 Dunworth Mews

Wind storm damage in Kensington Gardens

The Natural History Museum

The V&A Museum

War damage on the V&A

Snow!

With Sean away, I decided to spend an afternoon in Brighton. It’s only an hour train ride south of London and looked to be interesting. When I alighted from the train, I headed straight for the beach and boardwalk. Mind you, there would be no sunbathing as it was a chilly 8C with a good [...]

As I was walking home just now, I passed two guys have an exchange in front of the BuyBest convenience store a few doors away from our flat.  One guy was sitting in front of the store selling The Big Issue (a magazine published and sold by homeless people in London – it’s the model [...]

Not too much excitement this week but thought we’d post something so you don’t lose interest.  We started the week having brunch with friends at Notting Grill.  A great time with friends but I can’t say that I’d reccommend the restaurant.  I started my new volunteer position at Age Concern, an organisation that serves older adults in [...]

We are fortunate to have great friends. We have good friends from childhood, high school and college. We have made great new friends here in London. And, of course, we have our wonderful friends in Seattle. And last weekend, two of those friends took us to breakfast at our favourite Seattle cafe – Portage Bay [...]

It’s a new year.  We’ve been endulging in the holiday spirit.  We had not had many meals at home in the last month until this week, when we managed to stay in and cook for four nights.  But it’s Friday, so we have to go out, right? But we don’t have a booking anywhere because [...]

Happy New Year! Hopefully everyone had a fun and safe celebration. We had a fabulous evening at Nobu Berkeley with friends. The evening started with everyone (8 of us) gathering at Keithika’s flat for champagne. We were all dressed up, hoping to convince the world of our classiness but then the Patron tequila came out. [...]

Our holiday decoration:

Christmas morning Serpentine Swim Club race; the bagpipe serenade was a nice touch:
 

Finishing the swim with hot mulled wine:

It’s 2:09 GMT and we’ve just arrived back home from dinner at Nobu Berkeley and a nightcap at the Castle across the street. Happy New Year to all! We have pictures of our fabulous Nobu dinner and we’ll share those tomorrow. It was a fantastic night with our friends and a great [...]