day whatever

This is an 'umming' picture of my ummig one.

He ummed my camera shortly after this was picture was taken. At least it gave me time to get away

perfect dress

I've been lusting over my wedding dress for about a year now-but it doesn't even exist yet! I've bought a corset to wear under it (from fairygothmother-don't buy from them though their customer service is rubbish & when they get things wrong their general response seems to be *shrug*). I've got a lovely lady making it for me & I'm meeting her tomorrow to go fabric shopping. White Hart Lane-yeah, I know but it's a shop not a boozer or a stadium.

Above is a snippet of what my waist could look like on the day-I'm not giving anything away yet mind..

Shaka Zulu

This is an Elephant that was on the wall at Shaka Zulu, which is where we ate on Tuesday last week. African cuisine and extravagant décor, I 'd been told good things about this place and I wasn't disappointed. You walk in and straight onto an escalator going into the basement, there are Masai Mara statues that cover both floors and the life sized wooden elephants stampeding out of the walls and shells covering the remainder of the wall everything about the place was imposing. It's overwhelmingly decadent and perfect for an indulgent evening. The courses were hit or miss, for starter I had rooibos smoked salmon, it came with a slice of buttered brown rye bread and pickled cucumber (which was actually pickled cucumber & not gherkins like I'd imagined. It tasted just like smoked salmon and there wasn't enough other stuff on the plate to tone down the salmon taste. Mark had a Dora Wat which was a small chicken curry with a boiled egg in it. I had a taste-it was much more exciting than mine was, spicy yum. For the main I had a sirloin steak which was sublime! Tasty char grilled and pink in the middle, it was probably the nicest steak I've ever eaten. Mark had the Bobotie which was another curry dish, which once again I tried and it was ok, but to be honest I just wanted to get back to eating my steak! Desert wasn't very nice-I had a Koeksisters which is a plaited doughnut with syrup & sugar, it was tasteless. Mark forgot that he's lactose intolerant when he ordered his desert and ordered rice pudding, so we swapped desert half way through-I don't like rice pudding and they were extremely tight with the banana jam.

It was a nice experience and well worth a look around, but it would be far to pricey without the voucher and with the voucher the menu options are a bit too limited to make it the experience that you definitely want it to be.

day 2

This is on my way to work, it's a nice old building, it's not the Port of London Authority any more but it has the building equivalent of a tattoo and so will be called the Port of London Authority building until it is (probably) torn down to make way for cross rail or 'accidently' and irreparably structurally damaged during the building of Cross Rail or what ever the next Pharaoh of London's fantasic idea for a mausoleum is.

The Port's authority stretches for a length of around 95 miles (150 km) starting at an obelisk just downstream of Teddington Lock (upstream) to between Margate to the south and Clacton-on-Sea to the north, where the river joins the North Sea.

Interest nein? To me it means that I'm about 7 minutes depending on the traffic lights to work and either the begining or the end of another day at the office-keeping the pleasue/pain balance in check every day.

Monday will be late for work this week...

Here's an idea for my blog-which has been dying, very quietly in a corner for about 6 month now. The idea came to me in that moment between asleep and awake this morning and as it is a Monday Morning I decided it would be the perfect time to start. So before my eyes were even fully open I took a self portrait photograph with my phone, hoping to get the introductions out of the way before I start thinking about how I''d like to be portrayed too seriously and about 10 seconds after I took the first photo Mark came in with some toast. So now it's an introduction to me and an excuse to show off "look how good my boyfriend is."
Anyway, today's photo is me struggling to come to terms with Monday morning. I'm looking forward to this week though, it looks like it's finally getting brighter. :)