An Ode to the Walkabout...

Every weekend I swear I'm not going to the Walkabout and guess where I've ended up the last two weekends in a row? Yup, Shaftsbury Ave last weekend and Temple last night. God I love Temple. It's like the Lamby's, only not packed with 17 year olds, not so dark, you can breathe and the band aren't quite so chronic as Passionfruit Pulp. (I that even their name?) SO... long and the short of it, I've really missed going to a bar having a chat and a good old jump around and well... snakebites are gold. It's really nice to just be able to talk to strangers and shoot the breeze and hang out with mates. Though there's much more of that at Temple than at Shaftsbury Ave, which has gone a bit too generic west end club for my liking. If i wanted to go to a west end club I'd got to a proper one like Cirque.

So last night was Rosie's 30th birthday party. And she chose the theme "Bridesmaids and Pageboys". We were invited with strict instructions to hit all the op shops and find the biggest, brightest, ugliest dress we possibly could. Now, those who know me well will realise that I will do just about anything to get into a foofy dress. My 21st being a prime example of that! So I took Rosie's instructions as gospel, hit up the Cancer Reaserch shop and came up with dress gold. Let's put it this way, more than one person (lads and lassies alike) came up to me last night, tugged on my puffy sleves and said "oh my god, you like like Bridesmaid Barbie"... and really what's not to love about a fairy floss pink dress with tulle petticoats. (I'll upload a photo as I can be bothered!) Anyway, let me just tell you that there is nothing funnier than nine girls in bridesmaids dresses moshing to nivarna. Absolutely hilarious. I wish I'd made a movie of it but I was having too much fun to remember!

And in other news... Matt (Batty) and I celebrated Hump Day in fine style this week. We headed out to Islington to Mem and Laz and had some sensational food (Mem and Laz is my absolute favourite resturant in the whole world. It used to be Tonic but that seems to have been abandoned now!) Mem and LAz is fun, vibey and feels really friendly and if you fancy something that's not on the menu... ahh.. no worries. They'll make it for you anyway. They also have a really good beer range. Sounds pretty peachy to me! Anyway, we followed up by visiting the Beirodrome. Matt has gotten into a couple of different sorts of beers so the Beirodrome with over 60 types of beer seemed like a good place to hit up. And oh my god... how good. He introduced to a belgian strawberry beer called Fruli. It's like a strawberry smoothie and is so thick and lovely. This is not one for serious beer afficinados but the girls will love it and boys, it's worth a crack. If you don't like it, hand it over to your chicks, it'll be nice for them to finish off your beers for once!

anyway, that's quite enough prattle out of me for awhile. I will try to be a little more regular with my blogging and I'll get my act together and talk about travel sometime soon. We have to start thinking about it, it's only a month away now.

Talk to you soon,
love
simone x