So the holidays got to be a bore once everyone but me returned to work and so I decided to do the obligatory wardrobe purge. Now I got so wrapped up in the task that I forgot to take a picture of how much I decided was no longer wanted but it looked a little something like this:

Just with a lot lest colour.

I managed to rope my sister into becoming a packed mule and trudging down to our local charity shoot to drop off all the unwanteds before my mother caught sight of them and had a cow.

My wardrobe now looks like this:

With a massive gaping hole in the middle that NO SHOP has had the decency to fill. It’s so bare its sad. I went to every shop in Westfield and found nothing that I liked. (Save for a pair of boots…I needed to stop walking around in snow boots…it was wishful thinking really….)

I then went to Oxford Street. Still nowt. Save for two jumpers that I already owned but in the colours I do not. 

I just want it to be summer again so I can unpack this:

and wear all the colourful flowy skirts and dresses again! Damn you London with your lack of snow and lukewarm summers. Bastard.

Anyhow. There was a selection of unwanteds that I could not part with so easily for some reason or another so I’ve listed them in a new section on this smashing blog of mine with the aptly named ‘Shop’ which can be found here:

See? Easy! Let me know if anything takes your fancy. I’m going to relist it all on ebay or something at some point if that makes it easier.

That’s enough outta me. It took an age to list all that but now its done. Woo!

Tootles!

Despite Notting Hill being one of my favourite haunts, the arrival of the super mall Westfield in Stratford has lead me to abandon visiting anywhere west of E1. As a result, I morph into a snap happy tourist on the rare occasion I mange to bare a train journey longer than 15 minutes. 

We watched a live relay of The Nutcracker ballet in the recently refurbished Electric Cinema on Portobello Road. 

This cinema is stunning. Leather sofas, those adorable table lights and a bar that also serves cheeseburgers and hotdogs along side cajan peppers and shrimp cocktails.

And the booking office!

So cute! 

They still have the fire buckets

You know. In case of a fire.

(Awful photo I know but it was dark and I had to use the flash)

Yea…that happened.

Me and Ani then went back TWO DAYS LATER to watch the Hobbit. How was it? Excellent. Although I haven’t been keeping up to date with the entertainment world and wasn’t aware that they had split the book into three movies or something. Hence, and two hours in, I was exhausted!

‘They haven’t even reached the mountain yet! And WHO KNOWS what’s gonna come outta there for them to fight! How much longer can this go on?!’

And then the credits began to roll and I left feeling slighted cheated and red faced but excited at the realization that there is more from Middle Earth to come! Huzzah!

I also discovered this:

Bubble tea! From Bubbleology! Its like herbal tea with bizarre squishy balls (I’ve been told these are tapioca balls…whatever that is…). The passionfruit tea I love. I love tea. The squishy balls? Not so much. They taste fine but it’s the consistency of them… yuk. Have also since discovered they have a pop up shop in Westfield Stratford. I had the lychee cold there recently which was beautiful. And avoiding the balls is a fun game. *giggles like a child*

Finally, my youthful friends and I went to the Tabernacle to watch the panto ‘Oliver Twisted’. It was pretty darn funny. May have been down to my recent discover of raspberry flavoured vodka but yes…very funny!

Obliviously this is very very much a latergram so I cannot for the life of me remember what else Notting Hill held in store that had be so excited about it a month ago…. must be old age….

Tootles!

xxxx