Hey Sweeties,
Firstly I apologise, the post I had planned for today I ran out of time to write and the post you’ll be reading now is what I had thought I would write tomorrow… But like I said, I ran out of time to write anything before having to be in London all afternoon and evening and so I figured I would just write about my day now while it’s still fresh… Although I am definitely ready for my bed!
So, what have I done today? Well I had a work meeting this afternoon and then straight away afterwards, as it’s the last meeting of its kind before Christmas, we went ice skating at one of the pop up ice rinks in the city before heading to dinner at Giraffe in Spitalfields. As I had organised everything today, I was chief time keeper and one thing my colleagues have now learnt about me is that I become incredibly stressed when timings are needed to be adhered to. I am someone that is punctual at the best of times but of course we all snooze those extra 5 minutes sometimes and all sometimes are a bit tardy at leaving the house on time but when that happens… I get stressed. I hate being late!
Anyway, I won’t bore you with the meeting but all you need to know is that it didn’t start on time which meant we were still talking when we should have been heading across London to Broadgate ice rink (near Liverpool St Station). Fortunately we were only 10-5 minutes late to our session which actually didn’t affect the skating at all. However, I wasn’t that impressed with the rink. It was small & the management behind getting your skates/returning them was incredibly poor, there was just no structure and there was just one or two staff trying to sort skates and shoes for a lot of people. Also, no one checked our ticket (which was for 11 people) so quite frankly I feel we could have easily skated for free. Besides all this, it was quite fun… I just don’t think I would bother with pop up rinks again unless it’s at Somerset House -that I have heard is beautiful!
Because returning skates was timely, we were late for our dinner reservation but at the end of the day I think every restaurant in London needs to just accept that people are late owing to how long it takes to get places. Anyway, we booked Giraffe as its one of those places were I haven’t had a bad meal at and generally caters for everyone. As you can appreciate by this point I just need to get a drink in me and a Mojitos was swiftly ordered! Unfortunately it wasn’t the best Mojitos I had had, it was more Bacardi than it was lime and minty… I then ordered something a colleague had and that was delicious! I can’t remember the name as I merely just pointed at my colleagues when ordering rather than calling it by name. I think it was a mango daiquiri… It was delicious and that’s all you need to know really.
For main I ordered the chilli beef burrito which again was delicious but Luke warm and others had varying problems with their meals, mainly temperature rather than flavour. I know you are probably reading this and thinking the whole night was just a disaster but we did actually all have fun and the staff in Giraffe were incredibly understanding and adjusted our bill to account for the disappointments. We did also leave a good tip so although we might have been seen to be a pain, we were clearly grateful for the service we received.
Dinner!
Righty, my train is about to pull up in Slough so I’ll sign off now. Ian is picking me up so once home I’ll quickly upload this and then go to bed! Tomorrow I am working in the morning and I have the afternoon off so I am heading back into London for a mooch about the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and then something top secret in the evening which I’ll reveal in time.
Until tomorrow x
