Showing posts with label Greenwich Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenwich Market. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 February 2014

The Best Mother's Day Ever


This is from ages ago probably two years or older maybe three. I accidentally re-published it today. I can't put it back where it was, but I don't want to delete it but keep the memory of a lovely day. Sorry it's jumped up here. 

Sunday was Mother’s Day and the best one ever. Hannah invited us to London as she had plans for our day. First of all she gave me totally unexpected gifts...as usual thoughtfully chosen. A carved wooden box made from reclaimed wood to keep my pens and brushes in containing a little natural crystal deodorant free from chemicals...
I still can't bare to take the Christmas snowflakes off the study window...

A Le Creuset Teapot especially chosen to match my favourite old grey Le Creuset pans that she knows I love. I was blown away.
Then we got the tube to Canary Wharf...

and the DLR to Greenwich Market. We’ve been planning to go for ages. We all agreed that it was different from what we’d expected. For some reason we’d all imagined it to be sprawling and open. It was a little bit like a cross between Spitalfields and the Sunday Up Market in Brick Lane...only a bit more hippy and scruffy. It had a really good vibe was busy and bustling.



There were some great shops surrounding it...

...this one with great vintage wares but a tad overly patriotic displays for my liking...IDon't you just love the bloomers on the washing line... And Paper Moon, a Japanese shop with wonderful cut-out paper window displays. We had lunch in an Indian Restaurant on the corner of Turnpin Lane...love the name couldn't you just imagine Dick Turpin holding up a coach on a lane with a name like that? We toasted mothers and grandmothers with soda or Mango Lassie and ate spicy food... H planned to take us next to John Keat's House in Hampstead but we didn't have time, so went to the Observatory in Greenwich Park. ...synchronised our watches with GMT... ...took in the amazing view of the city from Greenwich Hill.... saw people paying to stand on Greenwich Meridian...but we didn't feel the need to...Learned loads in the Observatory about our solar sytem... and touched a piece of meteorite...
The best bit of all was spending time together and we've still got Keat's House to visit another day which may be less cloudy, then we can take a picnic to eat in the garden.....roll on summer...