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Morning, morning everyone! I would say rise and shine but I am guessing if you are reading this you need not rise but could possibly want to shine. This morning I am surprisingly perky after finishing my first night shift out of three. The one thing I wanted to share was my 6am observation. Now this may not be something you want to read about but I figured some of the time it is just nice to sit back and observe your surroundings. So at 6am I took my cup of steaming hot caffeine downstairs to the back of the hospital and watched the world go by for approximately 15 minutes. During such time I noticed three different sets of people. So the 6amer’s were as follows:

HAPPY TIRED DRUNK YET WIDE AWAKE

This group of two men and a woman were skipping (literally!) merrily down the road and shouting at the top of their voices for everyone to listen – WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING DO YOU NOT THINK SO?! Now as I was on the other side of the road far away from their direct line of fire I found this absolutely hilarious as you could see that they were clearly heavily intoxicated from their night of debauchery prior to this mornings athletics trials through Gower Street. There was however a lady that looked like she wanted to be swallowed by a black hole whilst they followed her to the underground station asking incessantly ‘DO YOU NOT THINK IT IS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING?!’ Poor lady – right?!

THE WANDERERS

Various waifs and strafes who just happen to be out roaming the streets and this time of the morning. They seem to walk with no purpose however look constantly bemused by their erratic surroundings. As I rarely walk like I am in a hurry I could easily be mistaken for one of these – but I was on the other side of the fence watching the passers-by.

WORKER BEES

These specific individuals are walking with something that can be easily mistaken as a spring in their step but to the ones that know they are running late. A stack of papers crammed untidily under ones arm, a coffee cup in the other hand and a mobile phone either held by their teeth or trying to pry it out of their pocket with their paper stacked arm. A couple of pieces of paper escape and their world collapses in front of them. The ultra organised with their roll case bags and paper neatly tucked under their arm with a steaming cup of coffee in their hand, bespectacled, gloves, hats and scarfs at the ready to brave the elements. These organised mortals are the elite of the morning group and the ones we look at in disbelief (How do they do it?!).

Welcome to my morning view – sorry it’s slightly late!

This Saturday night just gone I had plans with my bestie to go to the cinema and see Les Miserable or another film closer to the time of our arrival to the cinema. The original plan was to head to the cinema on Fulham Road get to see an early show and grab a bite to eat afterwards. As the saying goes ‘the best laid plans of mice and men’ and all that Jazz!

So we jumped on the underground and headed for the unknown (well picked somewhere on the map). Funnily enough both of us thought of the same stop at the same time but then agreed to get off one stop before ‘Waterloo’ and walk to wherever we could find good eats and some yummy drinks. We took a little stroll down the South Bank (I LOVE this place a little bit too much!) and popped into Foyles book shop – this shop is a favourite stop of mine along the South Bank purely to see what is new coming out but also to have a quick flick through books I would never usually think of buying. After an unfortunately rude conversation with the sales assistant we left and continued on our venture to find good food.

A five-minute walk led us to:

There are a couple of lovely restaurants here and a small makeshift village just behind. Stand alone shops/stalls that are open during normal hours were all closed up to the elements. We made our way to Gourmet Pizza (good timing as we were both ravenous at this point!)

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We started by ordering a delicious bottle of Malbec with Dough Balls and Garlic Mushrooms which were both just scrumptious. We managed to get a picture of only the mushrooms as by the time the rest of the food came out we were mid conversation and extremely hungry.

After this delectable meal we headed back the way we came with every intention of stopping off in Las Iguanas for a couple of cocktails but it was rammed and there were even people outside (such weather does not permit for standing outside even with alcohol!)

Wondering what to do next we encountered a weird-looking lady screaming someones name and just assumed she was having a psychotic episode. Luckily for us as we bypassed the potential psychiatric jail-bird we stumbled upon Arch Duke. Definitely a place to be visited again very soon. There will be a separate review of this place however for now check out a couple of the yummy cocktails we had.

After quite a few of these delicious beverages we managed to get to the station and home by around 11pm. Early to bed, early to rise and all that jazz!!

How was your weekend?

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