Catch-Up,
Mood:  silly
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
It's been all quiet on the blogging front, and probably because we've just been having too much fun.

Friday, now lets see, we spent the evening eating and drinking wine, and watched Lost in Translation. Beautiful, touching, and a slice of wealthy life.

Saturday I kept my promise to myself and ventured into London to check out the Borough Market & the foodie shops. Stephen decided stay home & chill out in the apt.

I'll defintely have to do the Borough Market & Southwark again with Stephen. It cracked London's armour for me. In a short radius there's the oldest market in London, and it supplies wholesalers and restaurants with produce during the week & promotes artisanal trade on Saturdays. Lots of fresh meat, bread, cheese and wine. Not to mention fresh produce, spices, jams, and HUGE bricks of BROWNIES!!! Fringing the covered market are all sorts of indepedent gormet foodie shops, cafes and restaurants. Not far away, down a narrow cobble-stoned alley is the Clink museum, which presents life in the clink, the original one. You could look through small jail-barred windows at street level into the basement musuem. Lots of dingy, dark cells, axes & blacksmiths?

I meandered past Southwark catherdral & a really cool historic boat, and walked down the Thames eating an organic bean burger, until I found myself at the Tate Modern, about 5 min. later...so close!

The Tate has an amazing installation in the Turbine Hall by Rachel Whiteread. Go to http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/whiteread/default.shtm to see pictures. This was real interactive art, because you had to walk through this "maze" in order to see & experience it. It was unexpectedly revealing.

Right, after looking at the nudes collection & Picasso's Weeping Woman, I headed back home.

Stephen & I were happily reunited & ate & drank more and watched Nil by Mouth, written & directed by Gary Oldman. Extremely well acted. It reminded me a lot of Cronenberg's History of Violence. Ooh that Viggo ;P

SUNDAY: Lazy morning. We ate lunch at the pub & read the paper. AH! Relaxing.

Now it's Monday & we're back at work. Stephen's doing a sleep-in, so I'm all on my lonesome.

Hope all your resolutions are on track, and for those who didn't make them, well, just be smuggly happy with yourselves.