Oh, what a day!
We started off with a slow amble along Charing Cross Road and visited every single music shop on Denmark Street (Tin Pan Alley for us locals) and surrounds. We strummed every guitar they allowed us to, posed with each guitar they allowed us to, snarled in a rock n roll kinda way and just basically strutted and pretended we were millionaires. Until we went into the tiny first floor shop of Acoustic Heaven and found their collection of vintage Gibson guitars. Hmmmm - so so pretty and boy, do they sound fantastic!
We were not allowed to touch these though, but we did drool a lot and the chaps were sweet and asked what our budget was...at this I spluttered and explained that right now it could maybe be around..(mutter mutter) . He looked amused and patted us on the shoulder and said "Looking is free." So we did. And then we left...hangdog style. And then we went into Hanks and pretended all over again. Oh, how quickly an hour and a half can disappear when you are having fun!
We scuttled down to St Martin's Lane and Mark dragged our friend Phil off for a manly pint and a lot of "arring" and "yeah, kick the ball" whilst I played hostess at Browns to Phil's sweet wife, Michelle and thirteen of her friends for her baby shower. Needless to say, the food was lovely, the service good and Michelle had a good time. She got tonnes of pressies for the baby and for herself. After lunch we got chucked to the bar as they needed the table and we sat around for another three hours by which time the boys had joined us.
And what a fantastic day it was...music, pretending, girly lunch and much laughter and good food and the sun was shining and it was just lovely. The baby is due the second week in May and it will be the first baby in our group of UK friends - in other words, it will be the first baby that we will be in contact with, as such, so this is going to be such an experience for us!
Sigh...oh, off I go to make a light salad for dinner. Suddenly my head is swimming - I just belatedly realised that we ate at one!
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Tass! I can just about cope with the Sparrow and FG...don't even mention babies! We are worried enough about having them visiting us once the baby has been born. They are both, unnaturally, calm about it = we are the ones in a tizz!
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