On a grey Friday morning last week Dad and I took the train up to London principally to see an exhibition of Norman Parkinson's work at the National Theatre. While we there of course, we took in some of the sights. (Jacko if you're reading, please note one of your 'Gonad' trees in the top pic!)
After visiting the exbition (more about that in a future post) we walked along the South Bank. Stupidly I hadn't even thought about the Easter holidays when planning to go and it was even busier than usual but this didn't spoil the enjoyment of our stroll where every couple of steps along there was another street performer or attraction to behold.
This unicyclist had just extricated himself from an unstrung tennis racket which he'd placed over his head and amazingly squeezed around his torso.
After
a spot of lunch and a delissimo carafe of red at an Italian restaurant we
walked towards Trafalgar Square where we encountered Tamils demonstrating......
......and then on to Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, down Regent Street and
on to my desired destination Oxford Street, or more specifically Selfridges.
It was a quick visit for a solitary purchase of a Suquu eyebrow pen, (a great product which is only available there or online as far as I know)
Dad was keen to make a quick getaway from the Selfridge splendour but the Suquu stand was right opposite the Creme de La Mer counter so I waved a £190 60ml pot of this product around and said "I bet you can't guess the price of this?" After some derisory guesses from him a well groomed male assistant politely asked "Can I help you Madam?"
Instead of replying 'not today thank you' I said "Oh, I was just telling my father the cost of this cream, but I think I'll be buying my moisturiser from Superdrug, thank you." He did have the good grace to laugh, lets face it I hardly looked like his usual type of customer did I ???
I thought the famous window displays were a bit disappointing on this occasion and all featured shoes and a fairground theme. Not a great subject for a good snap plus the reflection from the window made it difficult but I quite liked this one of these fab Jimmy Choo's.
If you're interested in photography, pop back soon to hear about the exhibition.
Thanks for coming.
x