Started the day off in Canary Wharf, having a sushi lunch with the pigeons and my family.

Afterwards we headed to Greenwich, where Tom and I went on the hunt for 0 longitude.

We found it (almost) after lots of wandering and the help of Tom’s iPhone.

There was a very pretty view of London from the top of the hill.

Afterwards we took the boat up the Thames to Embankment and went for drinks at Gordon’s Wine Bar.

One of my Grandma’s friends has started a new make-up line in the states called Balm Shell, so she brought me some lipgloss. The packaging is really cute and has little floating women in, who love bags more than men.

I was on the hunt for awesome vintage birthday present ideas this weekend, so our first stop was the Button Willow Bazaar at the St Aloysius Social Club. Tom failed to “bat the rat”, but I did get some ideas and a giggle out of the celebrities-made-out-of-vegetables competition.

My favorite was veggie Alan Carr.

Next up was Paradise Gardens in Victoria Park, where they had a steam rides fairground.

We won prizes in the penny arcade and it was all fun and games until…

We went on the waltzers and then Tom’s iPhone went missing. We called it minutes later, when we realized, but somebody had turned it off, so we knew it had been found. We rushed back to the waltzers and told the man in charge, he said “funny, that’s the third phone to go missing in the last two minutes”. When the ride stopped, we ran around, looking inside each car and then I noticed one of the other guys who worked there had an iPhone in his hand. I asked him if he’d just found it and after acting a bit weird, he sheepishly said “oh yeah, it is” and reluctantly handed it over. Afterwards we found two police men and told them to keep an eye on that ride. It’s scary to think how close it got to being stolen forever.

This photo pretty much sums it up. Remember to check your pockets for your valuables when you get off rides.

We decided to head to the calm of Canada Square in Canary Wharf and eat sushi in the park, while pretending to be in New York. They had the world’s largest mac broadcasting sporting videos too. After, we treated ourselves to wine, cheese, pickles and bread at Gorden’s Wine Bar, in the caves under Embankment.

The last few days have been really fun. Louise, my best friend from high school, came down to London for a job interview, so I got to spend yesterday with her. We had lunch on the canal boat at Little Venice, followed by coffee and cake in Maida Vale. She’s a photographer, so we went for a snoop around the Photographer’s Gallery and then wandered around the side streets of Soho, looking for interesting angles to snap.

We treated ourselves to bubble tea in China Town and then met up with Tom and took a riverboat down the Thames.

We went to Canary Wharf, to see all the skyscrapers light up as it went dark and then got lost in the underground maze of shopping malls. After that we went for a dinner at Yo Sushi! 

This morning we went for breakfast at Plan 9 (french toast w/ banana & blueberry ♥) and then waved goodbye to Louise at the tube. She’s going to Korea for a year and then she wants to move to London.

Adam Buxton showed us some videos using tiltshift photography a while ago and I thought it would be really tricky to do and that you’d need special equipment, but I found a website that applies the effect to your photos and now I’m addicted.

In other news, Starbucks are paying Tom to keep a coffee diary, because he drinks way too much. Some people have all the luck!

We went to Canary Wharf today.

It’s strangely eery there now with the falling stock market and job cuts, but I like walking between the big buildings, it makes me feel like I’m in the borrowers.

I love the underground shopping malls, they reminds me of Canada, but Canary Wharf was designed by Canadians so that makes sense. They had a cool mannequin dressed in newspaper pages (I’d totally wear that). The toilets had really nice mirrors which do this to your eyes. I want a mirror that does that.

On the subject of newspaper, I was reading the London Paper on the tube back and there were some interesting facts about Iceland. Did you know that up to 80% of the population believe in elves and fairies? That’s really cool. Anyway, I’ve attached the rest of the article if anyone wants to read it.

The Ocado man is delivering our grocery shopping between 10 – 11 pm tonight, I love not having to go food shopping anymore.