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Neglect

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Soz dear readers (all five of you), I have been very busy and forgot/couldn't be bothered to write for a while.  Here's a quick recap of what I got up to... A 9 mile walk for Amy's birthday through Kent countryside ending in steak frites and flirtations with the waiter. Cinema with Kwame to see "Starred Up".  I envisaged it being like Star Dust (one of the best movies ever) mainly because they both feature the word 'star'.  Crap logic.  I was very much mistaken as it turned out to be a gritty UK prison drama with lots of violence.  Still, it was good and had humour in it, even if I did miss parts where I turned away because of the blood and fighting.  We then went for dinner in Chinatown - this is the first time I have been to Chinatown EVER even though I used to come up to London as a kid and I have lived here for 4 years.  Don't quite know how I managed to avoid it!  The ducks hanging in the windows reminded me of Sin

Crystal Palace

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Today I nipped over to Paris. But as you can see the weather was pretty pants so decided to head to Egypt... Before going back in time to see some dinosaurs. Not really!!! (just in case you believed me...) All these delights can be found in Crystal Palace Park where I took myself today.   I woke up in a bad mood but the sun was shining so I decided to go and explore some South London.  By the time I left the house it was actually pretty chilly and grey and rainy, but I had committed myself to going out so I went with it.  Crystal Palace Park is quite cool, I think it'll be prettier in summer though.  It's dead easy to get to - right by the train station, and there's lots to see.  There's a big lake with pedalos, and parts of the lake have huge dinosaur models on it (with optional audio trail so you can learn about what you're seeing). On the other side of the lake is where the original Crystal Palace stood before it burned down in 1936.  You c