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I love my friends

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The week kicked off with 241 burgers with Dan in The Great Exhibition pub, I had a craving that couldn't be satisfied and luckily Dan's always up for a burger.  A 45 minute wait meant I was grumpy by the time they finally arrived but they were really really good....expensive on any other day but Mondays mean they're £6 each and you can't really go wrong. On Tuesday, Bex Liz and I went to see Limbo on the Southbank.  SO WEIRD.  It consisted of a contortionist, sword swallower, aerial hooper, pole climber and hand balancer along with some weird and wonderful interspersions.  The contortionist made me feel a little bit sick with the things he could do with his body, and I winced each time the lady deep throated a sword.  My favourite part of the evening was where they all climbed up onto bendy poles surrounding the circular stage, then bent back and forth, the momentum causing them to fly forward and backwards over the audience and then nearly causing them to hit each ot

Zoo Lates

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It was Samia's birthday this week.  Her housemate contacted me last weekend to see if I was up for a surprise visit to Zoo Lates for her birthday. The surprise unfortunately didn't stay a surprise for long - mainly due to mine and Gemma's incompetence at keeping secrets....whoops!  Still, her brother and sister turned up which she didn't know about, so at least something was kept secret! Zoo Lates seems like it's a good idea.  It's certainly popular - Gem missed out on coming because the tickets sold out.  It's overpriced though - £28 per person, though if you book through timeout.com you can get tickets for £17.50.  You might think that's worth it to avoid children running about the zoo, but instead you have to contend with drunk young adults (i.e us) and there's not really much difference between the two! I think it'd be good for a date, or in a small group, but unfortunately we spent a lot of time waiting for some people to arrive, then

Just hangin' around

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Inspired by our trip to Wales a few months ago, David and I decided to try rock climbing.  I found a place near us and booked into a taster session - 2 hours for £12, not too shabby! On the course was us, a pretty au-pair, a mum and her 11 year old daughter.  The 11 year old was the best of us - hanging off the holds like a monkey and with no fear of anything.   We started with a bit of traversing round the wall which I found really hard but everyone else seemed fine with.  We then did a bit of bouldering (no harness) which again I found really quite hard.  I managed to climb up quite high but then I looked down and got a bit wibbly legs and found it hard picking a path to come down on - it would have been easier just to jump onto the mat but she wanted to teach us an important lesson that it's easy to go up but harder to come down! We played a game where the first person started off in one position on the wall and had to add a move, then the next person copied and adde

A Simple Space

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A Simple Space by GOM (credits - GOM) On Friday I took my girl Samia on a date.  It was one of the best dates she'd been on she said. But she texted me at the end saying she just wanted to be friends, isn't that always the way! I didn't even get to 2nd base. Oh well - if anyone wants to impress a special person in their life, this is what they have to do: 1) A nice stroll along the South Bank to Las Iguanas, where we had happy hour cocktails followed by dinner.  It helped the weather was absolutely gorgeous. 2) Impress the date by winning the Tour De France like so: All the lunch time spinning has paid off 2) Book this  - A Simple Space.  IT'S SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD!!!!  It was a last minute decision as we were both free on Friday and wanted to do something rather than sit at home crying we had no boyfriends.  I am so glad we went - it is absolutely incredible and I wish it was longer than an hour. It's a troupe of 7 gymnasts from Australia called

May Summary

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I was very lazy blogging in May. I guess I have been busy with stuff, but not stuff worthy of blogging about - mainly gym and work. The other weekend I went to Holland Park. The sun was shining so I got a book and sat in the park for a bit to read - it was lovely. I don't frequent that part of London much so decided to talk from there back to Victoria, taking in the sights as I went. In Holland Park there's a Japanese themed garden which was my main purpose for choosing the park, but I was a little disappointed by it - it was a small well kept garden with a waterfall, I guess I was expecting something bigger. Anyway I strolled back to Victoria via Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, and discovered the Albert Memorial - I like walking places because you see things you'd miss on the tube. Not a lot happened last weekend, I headed home to see family, went on a walk then headed up to Hatfield to see Jen & Leanne. I managed to convince them