Good day kind world and welcome to this superlative Tuesday morn. Many things have occurred since we last conversed, most importantly comes the news that Kat and I are now engaged to be wed.
Ok, time to stop writing like that….
Yes, I am now officially engaged. It’s all very exciting. Well, it is for me and Kat, maybe less so for you lot. I proposed on Bank Holiday Monday, getting down on one knee and holding out a ring, all that good stuff. We’d spent the evening watching I Love You, Man (my choice) and Bride Wars (Kat’s choice) so the whole getting married vibe was big that night. Thankfully, once the question had been popped, Kat said yes… after a bit of a giggle and a hug.
No less than 20 minutes later, as we were informing friends and family, she mentioned that she’d already had the idea of getting a folder to collate wedding ideas. 20 minutes and she was already planning! The following day she text me at work to tell me she’d bought said folder as well as her first bridal magazine!
We’ve been together a year now, the best year ever, we went to London for the weekend to celebrate.
London was brilliant. We went up on the Friday evening (because I couldn’t get away from work early or get the day off) and got to the hotel about 9.30pm. The hotel was amazing. We quickly got changed into the fluffy robes and slippers that were waiting for us and sat up on the extremely comfortable and very large bed. Then we ordered us some room service and started on the complimentary Champagne, truffles and strawberries!
We awoke early on Saturday and headed downstairs for breakfast, after briefly flicking through our complimentary newspaper which was waiting outside the room. After loading myself up on full English breakfast we headed all of 100 yards up the road to the British Museum. After the museum it was a walk down to and around Covent Garden before taking in the Matinee performance of Lion King.
After the Lion King, which was brilliant, we took a little walk. I say little, it turned out to be a long and occasionally stressful walk. We walked down to Leicester Square, then Trafalgar Square, then Westminster, then along the South Bank. Apparently there was some festival going on down there, and it felt like everyone in London had descended on the same area. You know that annoying habit that people have of stopping in the middle of the street really suddenly, so you almost walk into them, then they give you that look as if to say it was all your fault? Well that happened about a gazillion times in the time it took us to get out of there. We had been walking a long time and ended up right back where we started, the Lyceum Theatre.
Finding dinner that night turned out to be a bit of a mission. Kat had been hungry since the interval of the Lion King show and was now starved. We walked back to Leicester Square before realising neither of us knew what we wanted to eat. We settled on Garfunkels, mainly because we were stood right outside it and couldn’t be bothered to walk any further. We went in, got met by a grunt and had two menus thrown on a table and a nod from the waiter to sit there. We sat. We looked at the menu and ordered some drinks. Which the waiter got wrong. It soon dawned on us that neither of us really wanted to be there. So we paid for our drinks, made some excuse about Kat being ill and left. As soon as we were out of the door Kat started cracking up laughing!
Sunday was another good day. Started again with a nice big breakfast before checking out of the hotel. Then we had to traipse down Oxford Street with our bags to get to a photographers studio. It was one of those places where you get your hair and make-up done and get the photos taken for free… then they sting you when they reveal how much they charge for you to keep them. Their standard rate is a whopping £75 per photo! Thankfully, because we were celebrating our engagement and because we paid there and then we managed to get all the pictures we wanted without it leaving too big a dent in our wallets. They gave us the pictures on a CD but also send them off to be professionally airbrushed, so we’ll get another CD through soon with pictures that have the bags removed from under my eyes! Good stuff.
- Me & Kat
Now though London is a memory, it’s back to work and lots more overtime for me. Got a wedding to save for now!
In other news, someone finally moved into the flat above us. This means I can no longer use their empty parking space so I’m back to parking on the road, without a permit. We’ve finally had an official letter through in my name so can at last apply for a parking permit from the council. Can you believe that after almost 3 months in the flat we’ve yet to receive a single bill for Electric, Gas, Council Tax or Water!? Crazy.