Hello from London!

[AlliaPotestas]

Olympic park is on until 17 or 18 nov

I will definitely try to get there, xx

I suggest you take the afternoon off. Start with a visit to Borough Market to stock up with some cheese - I think there are something like 15 shops/stalls to choose from and then walk over London Bridge to Cheese at Leadenhall for a spot of lunch ( https://cheeseatleadenhall.co.uk/ ) then jump on tube or DLR to Queen Elizabeth Park to see the shrouds remembrance thingy. If you have the energy then jump back on to the DLR to Tower Hill to see the poppies. If it isn't quite dark enough you can munch on some cheese to keep you going until it is...

Haha! Sounds like an AP shaped plan

There was quite a haunting display (or is one) of clear plastic outlines of soldiers, that have been displayed in a church somewhere (I think it's Midlands). If memory serves me right, most of the young men from the village went to war and died in conflict.

It's a somber time.

Was it this?

http://www.penshurstlivingarchive.org.uk/content/places/church/silhouettes-installation

A couple of his there but not there silhouettes stand outside Whitehall - they are very striking with their poppies on...

 

[MrDevereaux]

That's the one AP! Displays like that are poignant and worth a visit.

 

[AlliaPotestas]

In a change of subject... I do quite love his confidence...

“When I'm on Tinder and it says I'm 69, I don't get an answer. When I'm 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46133262

A luxurious position...

 

[londoner2]

Haha! Sounds like an AP shaped plan

I fear the AP shape you have been so diligent in sculpting through the early morning gym and pool sessions may be threatened by a cheese dominated diet!

 

[MrDevereaux]

A luxurious position...

Is that ... missionary, or doggy, cowgirl or reverse cowgirl?

Enquiring minds.

 

[AlliaPotestas]

I fear the AP shape you have been so diligent in sculpting through the early morning gym and pool sessions may be threatened by a cheese dominated diet!

Oh no... there is no fancy AP sculpted shape... my diet of cheese and wine means five fucking thirty gym club ensures I am a small elephant not a big elephant... side note I love elephants, beautiful, complex, strong and gentle... ever watched an enormous elephant raise her foot and ever so gently wipe after the after birth on a new born? I really am not sure there is anything more beautiful...

Additional side note - today is 14 days off the booze becauee I really do need to let five fucking thirty gym club deliver better gains... I am quite impressed by that since I stay in a hotel that ply’s me with free wine...

Is that ... missionary, or doggy, cowgirl or reverse cowgirl?

Enquiring minds.

Hehe - I suspect in his case it might be a little self love, xx

 

[MrDevereaux]

14 days is something to be admired! I've been booze free for a few months. It fucks with my health, not to mention it puts a hole in the wallet! Feeling much better for it, and it's kinda fun to be the sober one in the pub.

 

[londoner2]

Oh no... there is no fancy AP sculpted shape... my diet of cheese and wine means five fucking thirty gym club ensures I am a small elephant not a big elephant... side note I love elephants, beautiful, complex, strong and gentle... ever watched an enormous elephant raise her foot and ever so gently wipe after the after birth on a new born? I really am not sure there is anything more beautiful...

Additional side note - today is 14 days off the booze becauee I really do need to let five fucking thirty gym club deliver better gains... I am quite impressed by that since I stay in a hotel that ply’s me with free wine...



Hehe - I suspect in his case it might be a little self love, xx

I too love elephants however am very wary. They may look gentle (and are so with their offspring) but they squash about 500 people every year... not all of whom deserve to be squashed... Having said that - 20+ years ago I bottle-fed orphans at Pinawalla in Sri Lanka and they were the sweetest creatures...!

 

[MrDevereaux]

I too love elephants however am very wary. They may look gentle (and are so with their offspring) but they squash about 500 people every year... not all of whom deserve to be squashed... Having said that - 20+ years ago I bottle-fed orphans at Pinawalla in Sri Lanka and they were the sweetest creatures...!

An elephant kills a character in a novel I read recently, it was fairly funny.

 

[Polranny]

I sure there was a killer rogue elephant in one of the Ryder Haggard novels

 

[MrDevereaux]

I sure there was a killer rogue elephant in one of the Ryder Haggard novels

Funny. A friend of mine has a holiday cottage just off a Rider Haggard Lane (might be spelled Ryder) ...

 

[londoner2]

I sure there was a killer rogue elephant in one of the Ryder Haggard novels

King Solomon's Mines.

 

[Ironfan]

Really? That’s amazing...

Maybe you planted the one I bought,

I can only hope.

Lucky enough this year to be able to march at the Cenotaph this Sunday with my old man, 40 years service between the two of us.

 

[AlliaPotestas]

I can only hope.

Lucky enough this year to be able to march at the Cenotaph this Sunday with my old man, 40 years service between the two of us.

That really is a beautiful thing,

 

[MrDevereaux]

Indeed.

I'm struggling today. Mustering through, been awake since half three.

 

[AlliaPotestas]

Indeed.

I'm struggling today. Mustering through, been awake since half three.

By choice? What do you do?

 

[AlliaPotestas]

Despite the fun I sometimes have in London I must admit I felt a bit blue booking my hotel rooms for 2019 today....

Very first world problems

 

[AngelicaS1780]

I suggest you take the afternoon off. Start with a visit to Borough Market to stock up with some cheese - I think there are something like 15 shops/stalls to choose from...

The mention of Borough Market made me think of this pic I took last I was there. That then reminded me that I wanted to try to teach myself how to embed pics in posts. So here goes...and got it figured out on the second try. Don't know if I did it in the most efficient way, but there it is.

 

[londoner2]

The mention of Borough Market made me think of this pic I took last I was there. That then reminded me that I wanted to try to teach myself how to embed pics in posts. So here goes...and got it figured out on the second try. Don't know if I did it in the most efficient way, but there it is.

Made me smile too!

 

[Polranny]

Love me, love my red cow, but how the fuck did i end up here?

 

[AlliaPotestas]

The mention of Borough Market made me think of this pic I took last I was there. That then reminded me that I wanted to try to teach myself how to embed pics in posts. So here goes...and got it figured out on the second try. Don't know if I did it in the most efficient way, but there it is.

Love it! You joining me for the borough market tour then?

 

[AngelicaS1780]

Love it! You joining me for the borough market tour then?

I think it needs to be a "London" thread field trip.

 

[MrDevereaux]

I think it needs to be a "London" thread field trip.

A field trip?

Is this where we go on a trip to a field, then trip in the field? I like to go tram spotting in town. It's easy. See one. Move on.

 

[AlliaPotestas]

Beautiful and haunting... I was glad I stood in the queue for 1.5hrs to see it...

Tired now... need to keep my eyes open on the train or who knows where I’ll end up...

 

[AlliaPotestas]

Angelica says road trip - I’m in! All aboard....