London Baby

I had originally planned to meet up with a couple of my besties this weekend.

I wasn't feeling great, I wasn't up for a big night out.  I fancied just meeting up for a meal and a good natter.

We said this it was decided to postpone the evening for a couple of weeks.

As GO had already booked the time off we decided to go into the Big Smoke and just have some fun.

We did the tourist thing visiting Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square,Trafalgar, Covent Garden, Parliment Square and The South Bank. 

It was so much fun being a tourist again.

Reminiscing about our time living in London (separately) and the fun we had.

We even managed to find a few places we had never been to before.

We stopped off for a lovely dinner and went all out with a three course meal.

The venue had a very nineteen twenties vibe.  I won't spoil anything by telling you what the venue was called (oh, alright it

was Nando's).

We felt we must visit the M and M world.

GO bought £100 worth of chocolate (I'm sure it wasn't far off that price).

I got a reasonably priced Christmas decoration. A little M&M wreath.

We spent a lot of time in the shop, it stank of chocolate and made me feel quite queasy.

We then made our way to Trafalgar Square to marvel at the "new" fourth plinth display, a horse's skeleton.

We visited The Clarence Pub, which GO used to work in in 2000.  

He reminisced with the staff behind the bar and swapped tales of working in the pub.

He persuaded me to write his name on the wall so that when we return we can see it.

We made our way toward the London Eye and just marvelled at how Bustly London is st night.

Date Night

In the past month I can count on one hand how many days where GO and I have spent time together.  Most weekends I have been spent on the sofa watching X Factor.  

A few weeks ago, GO was finishing at nine, I decided to surprise him and meet him in town for drinky poos.  The draw of the sofa was too much.  Tonight, however, I am going into town for an evening of cocktails and to make sure I have laid out my outfit.

So at nine o clock this evening (when traditionally my dates I'm single life used to wind down) I will hop on a bus straight to Oxford Hogh Street to meet up with my lovely husband for a late date.

UPDATE

We had a blast, I met GO outside the Radcliffe Camera, I was walking to meet him at the White Horse (the COCO café was closed), he was walking towards the COCO and we just passed each other in the street.  It was a wonderful moment  we just looked up and saw each other.

 It was terrible romantic, meeting so unexpectedly under the spires of Oxford. To increase the romance GO was holding a single white rose for me.  My heart nearly exploded out of my chest.  We headed to the Turl Street Kitchen for our first drink. It was the end of the evening for them so the bar was quiet and meant we could have a nice long chat and a catch up.  Then we headed to the Caslte Quarter to The Living Room (a huge cocktail bar). It wasn't too full and we managed to find somewhere to sit, the music was very loud, and awesome retro noughties vibe, so we spent the rest of the evening dancing and singing.  We had a great time.  Arriving home just after midnight for a cup of tea and toast.

Date Night

Date night this time was at Cockadoo in Nunam Courtney. It's an Asian Fusion style restaurant With huge portions of extremely delicious food.

We had a shared starter; satay, prawn toast, ribs, fish cakes, and what can only be described as a sack of veg.

GO ordered a Lamb Shank fish while I had Thai Green Curry.  We had King Scallops on the side.  

It came to quite an expensive bill, but then we found out the took the gourmet society card, which gave us 25% off the bill making it a more reasonable £50.  It was a special occasion (my birthday and new school) we don't do this very often, but is was well deserved.

Photos from Cockadoo Facebook page 

Gone Girl

So after being stuck in traffic for over an hour on Thursday, for no reason, I decided that G.O and I should go out on Friday, it's the new Saturday don't you know.  So we went to the local cinema complex to watch Gone Girl.

SPOILER ALERT 

I enjoyed the film, as much as you can enjoy a film about a missing woman and her prime suspect husband.  I fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Date nightarama

I couldn't be bothered to cook this evening, I'm still fighting my way through this blooming cold.  Harvester is a great no nonsense, meal out without the fuss kind of place.  I love it, especially the salad bar.  I was looking forward to it all day.

As I waited for G.O to get ready, he couldn't wear the first outfit because the shirt was too creased. G.O wondered whether the Gourmet Society had connections with Harvester, they didn't but the BeefEater chain did and there was one round the corner.  Off we went into pastures new...

It turns out that BeefEater restaurants are just like my beloved Harvesters.  I began a mental comparison between the two establishments. 

Harvester has;

A salad bar

Free pop refills

Jack Daniels sauce

Beefeater;

Doesn't have the above, but what was this?  Baked Camembert, and free refills (although we had already ordered cokes) this was looking promising. 

"There's a fifteen minute wait for the Camembert, is that alright?"  Asked Tomaz our pleasant Polish waiter.  It was alright by me.  It arrived fourteen minutes later and it was well worth the wait.

It arrived on a bread board with sliced rye bread and onion marmalade.  And was yummy.

Starter finished we waited for our main course, a simple round of steak and chips.  The ever attentive waiter came over and said, that he had a surprise for us.  From behind his back he produced a balloon dog!

What a random moment.  We were still giggling when our steaks arrived, as is now the case the chips were separate in their own little container.  When did food stop being served on one plate?

As we finished we were asked if we wanted desert, I'm not much if a desert person, so we decided to share a sundae.  The popcorn and caramel sundae sounded awesome.  "So one large sharing sundae?" Yes.

When it arrived it was massive, it took over half an hour to eat it and I could only manage a few spoonful but G.O persevered and finally we finished it.

Through gritted teeth and with a fake smile plastered  G.O whispered "he's coming back.  He's coming back!"  Just then the waiter arrived back and brandished a purple sword!!!

It was a fun evening and I am definitely going to go back to the Beefeater again. Although I imagine to balloons were just a one off.