On Saturday we headed over to Camden for breakfast…

where we had nitrogen-oxide ice cream from Chin Chin Laboratorists.

You pick the flavour of cream you want, they mix it with nitrogen oxide (his thermometer showed -22 degrees) and it turns in to ice cream.

We got to have two toppings because he’d seen us in Camden the night before, when they’d closed.

We had chocolate ice cream, with salted caramel sauce, peanut brittle and candy floss sugar candy (which looked like shards of glass) and it was the best ice cream we’ve had in ages!

They even had swings to swing on while nomming your ice cream.

We wandered around Camden for a little while, where Mountain Dew were giving out bottles of their new energy drink, so everyone was florescent.

Then we headed to Cake Britain…

an exhibition of cakes!

The burger cakes were the coolest.

They were going to let all the visitors eat the cakes the next day – great if you have a sweet tooth!

Afterwards we went for a snoop around Orbital Comics, which is an awesome shop.

I wish the Harajuku vending machine wasn’t empty though – I’ll have to go back.

Afterwards I petted a horse…

and we had sushi in the park. Then we went for a look around John Soane’s museum, which is a hoarder’s paradise. No photo allowed in there though

Tom took me for a drink in an awesome pub he’d found a few years ago and thought he might never find again.

Then we headed to the South Bank for more noms.

I couldn’t resist making Big Ben look mini for a photo. I love my new camera sooooo much! Tom wanted to have a look around Namco but it wasn’t as good as the Trocadero.

Then we met up with Metaxa and Lynsey in town.

Metaxa took us to a theatre pub, which had lots of crazy things on the wall and singing coming from the room next door.

On a side note, I found proper purikura machines in China Town… so Tom and I are going to get some snapped on an exciting date that’s coming up in the near future!

I’ve started making a patchwork quilt for our bed, which should be super cosy when winter comes. My Mum use to make quilts and won awards for them, so the knowledge must be in my brain somewhere. It’s quite a repetitive task but it gets addictive, I need to hunt out some good podcasts to listen to while I sew. So far, I’ve been watching True Blood, which I like.

This week we have been going on cinema dates, avoiding the rain, working really hard, buying clothes and giving more dating advice to the neighbours. We also came third, as Team Ravonettes, in the local pub quiz with Emma. There were only four teams, so third wasn’t that great but the winning team bought everyone drinks.

Cut Out + Keep’s trademark has been finalized, so we get to put an R at the end.

The latest issue of Alt. Fashion came through the letterbox, with my tutorial for making a lolita cuff, and it got me in the mood to be crafty again.

I’ve discovered the art of layering shrink plastic, so my first creation was a kitty cat hair clip. It works really well and now I have about a thousand ideas for things to make next.

I’ve given myself an embarrassing, Harry Potter-esque scar on my forehead from my hair straighteners, it’s so annoying and I hope it goes away asap.

Last night we went to see The Boat That Rocked and had dinner at the 02 centre, which was good. We got more purikura photos, I’m getting quite a collection.

Tonight we were off to see Hundred Reasons at the 02 Academy in Islington. We went for sushi beforehand, where we bumped in to Ross from Chains Undone, and his new band Mars Patrol – which was crazy because we know him from six years ago in Edinburgh. They were also playing at the 02 Academy but we weren’t able to sneak through to their room. I was down as Cat Cat Cutoutandkeep for the gig, which made me laugh. Johnny Foreigner were supporting and we bumped in to Del, who didn’t invade the stage this time. Hundred Reasons were really good and played all of the classics. I gave Colin a tipsy hug at the afterparty. We bumped in to Ross again on the tube back, it’s funny how all the Scottish people in London end up together, and then we saw Owen from school at Chalk Farm station. There have been way too many weird coincidences tonight.

Tom set me up with Delicious Library on my computer, so that I can keep track of the books I get sent. You scan in the barcodes using your webcam and it puts the books on a digital shelf. It’s so cute.

I’ve started a purikura photo album. I spend far too much money on these machines, I should really buy my one. I pinched Tom’s Vivienne Westwood scarf because it matched my skirt.

I spotted this life size Russian doll when walking down from Hampstead, I like to think that she’s full of hundreds of smaller dolls – right down to the small one you’d find in a normal Russian doll.

While the rest of the city was rioting, we decided to head for the hills and make the most of the sunshine. Here we are taking in the view from Parliment Hill while enjoying a well deserved g&t. A school kid commented on us making a lovely couple in Shepherd’s Bush yesterday, it makes such a difference from the Scottish neds you’d find back home.

Tomorrow I’m off to Taylor Taylor (pictured above) to have my hair chopped up and then I’m going to the Tatty Divine press day.

It’s really starting to feel like autumn now.

Tonight we went to see How To Lose Friends And Alienate People at the O2 centre, it wasn’t that great but we munched on pick n mix and Yo! Sushi were doing an offer where we got 5 plates free, yay!

I got a new hat to keep me warm and I’m knitting a matching scarf. I want it to have pockets and cat ears on top. It’s handy because we’ve been going on lots of walks in cold parks and drinking hot take-away coffee.

This week has been full of hard work but I’m super organized and on top of things now. DiS has been running out of the mew again, so our home office has been very busy. We were at the Concrete & Glass festival the other night, as DiS were sponsoring a stage, and we discovered an awesome noodle bar. I love East London – it’s full of lots of hidden streets and trendy bars. Tom was also at the BT Digital Music Awards ceremony, as DiS were nominated for some awards, but they didn’t win.

We’ve just got back from a very interesting trip to London and it looks like we may be moving there in less than two weeks. While we were down, Tom had a job interview with Drowned In Sound, a music site we’ve been fans of for ages. It was a bit weird because I ended up going on the interview with him, but it was fine because they liked Cut Out + Keep and gave me Martha Wainwright’s new album, which doesn’t come out until next month.

Anyway, we had lots of fun on our holiday. We stayed at an EasyHotel in Victoria, which was bright orange. Tom really liked the water-fountains at Somerset House.

They do screenings in the summer and I’d love to come back for some.

We also went to the London Transport Museum which was lots of fun. They had a frame filled with all the lost property they had found on the tube. It was really cool looking at all the things – lot’s of toys and keys. I wonder what they would do if you saw something that was yours?!

Tom got to try driving a tube train…

and a bus…

and I watched him via CCTV.

We also got some purikura photos taken. I can’t wait to get back down.