Cold Symptoms
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Feeling rather rotten. Surviving on honey and lemon.
The last two days have been okay. Nothing much going on.
On Saturday I met up with Anna. As she works for a tourist attraction company we were able to get free tickets for the London Eye. It was a lovely sunny day and loads of people were enjoying the good weather. Then we strolled around until we got to the National Portrait Gallery (one of my favorite museums) and took a look inside. We didn’t spend a long time in there, so I’m planning to go back again to have a look at the Face of Fashion Exhibition.
We realised that we were both hungry, so we stopped at TGI Friday for a meal. She had steak, while I had some cheesy chicken pasta connoction. We continued to catch each other up on our news while we ate. She heard the full story about Dirk, and laughed at his silly behaviour.
Being a weekend afternoon the restaurant was full of families; one active little demon kept on visiting other nearby tables, and at one point I jumped at the sensation of tiny fingers moving over my back near my butt cleavage.
(It reminds me of another woeful episode, which occurred the last time I visited Jamaica 12 years ago. We visited a family friend in the countryside who didn’t have a toilet in her house, so when I needed to “go” I found a quiet bush. As I was in the process of “going” I felt something cold touch my bum, and turned around to see a little dog there!)
2:24 am on 18-Apr-07
Poor thing, it sucks to be sick…get better soon!
and by the way…they have TGI Fridays in the UK? How funny and I’m so sorry us Americans foisted that crap on you Brits.
3:15 am on 18-Apr-07
…. I remember Chi Chi’s (Leicester Square maybe?) from 1988 — college students loving fru fru drinking… being from Arizona and S. California (most of us students back then), we dove into the chips and salsa that we’d been missing for 11 weeks!
Thanks for visiting my blog — and you said what I didn’t say very well — quality not quantity. Dang if that phrase just escaped me!
3:59 am on 18-Apr-07
If you have a cold, then it should be rest, liquids and aspirin till you feel better. And lots of Earl Grey tea.
That was amusing what happened in the restaurant, but I hate it when people don’t bother to control their children in public.
7:43 pm on 18-Apr-07
Thanks for the good wishes guys, I think the worst is over now.
Hey Becca-the-minx: It was my first time at TGI’s and it was okay, as a one-off.
Hi CD: welcome! I’ve never heard of Chi Chi’s, sounds like fun!
Hi Nicholas: as usual, you are the voice of reason…
10:32 pm on 18-Apr-07
I want to go to the National Portrait Gallery! Y’know I STILL aint been to see that vintage shop you were chatting bout aaaaages ago.