Pizzas and Pretty Cakes and Plummeting Temperatures!

 

This morning we were up bright and early, for a day in London.

What we hadn't anticipated was waking to a cold house, but even worse, no hot water!

It's probably fair to say our boiler doesn't owe us anything, we had it installed when we moved in 24years ago and it has served us pretty well, but has a small recurring problem that we know one day will be irrepairable.

Whether today is that day, or whether the two small power cuts we had last night did something, we don't know.

We called a plumber before we went out, he did leave a message, which we have responded to but are awaiting a further call back, I am hoping he can make it tomorrow, one day with no hot water is one thing, two days of back to washes in the sink is really going to be a bit of a trial!

How spoilt we have become over the years!

 

 

We were very thankful today was a bright and dry day.

It made walking through London really pleasurable.

 

 

Covent Garden street entertainers are always a highlight...

 

 

...and of course the market itself has some pretty and unusual shops.

 

 

 

Fire and Stone is our favourite pizza restaurant.....once again I chose Christmas dinner pizza...not a tomato in sight so if you aren't a tomato fan this is ideal!

 

 

Teen One ordered a very pretty Mocktail...blueberry smash, which had lemon, rosemary and blueberry in...perfect for her sore throat.

Sadly the sore throat and cough was a bit of a trial for her throughout the day, especially with the cold air, but she soldiered on.

 

 

Hubby chose a chicken tikka pizza, which came complete with popodoms, mango chutney etc

 

 

Teen Two chose the London pizza, which is basically an English cooked breakfast on a pizza dough!

 

 

We have been visiting London during the Christmas period for the past few years, today's visit coincided with a special Christmas BrickLive Lego event.

It was only a two hour event, so Teen One and I decided we would explore the Kings Road in Chelsea instead.

On our walkabout we came across the house where Mozart wrote his first symphony...at the age of eight!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By total coincidence, just a day or two ago I blog hopped onto a picture of this very pretty cake shop....which just so happened to be in Chelsea too!

 

 

 

 

I was a little disappointed initially not to see the pretty flowers cascading over the shop front, but the Christmas decorations were rather special so made up for it.

We had hoped to have afternoon tea in there but there was a queue out of the door and it was rather cold, so we just had a look round inside...

 

 

 

...which was delightful to say the least ( and rather expensive as you might imagine!)

 

 

We did however treat ourselves to a cupcake each and were thrilled with the pretty bag they came in...

 

 

...as well as the individual boxes the cupcakes came in...very princessy and made us feel very special!

 

 

We wiled away the two hours checking out the shops....some very pretty shops indeed, but all out of our price bracket of course!

Peter Jones department store however had some bargains in, which  has started off my collection of pressies for next year!

Soon enough it was time to meet the boys back at the Saatchi gallery.

We had looked round the gallery itself at the beginning of their session, but decided its not our kind of art!!

 

 

With the boys back with us, it was time to get the bus back to Waterloo....and what a thrill to see some of the buses with  the real Christmas message on the sides.

 

We were surprised to see the car needed defrosting when we got back to Hampton Court.....brrrr it sure was cold...as is the house now we are home!!

We do however have the woodburner in the living room, so Hubby has lit that and stoked it with coal, so hopefully there will be a bit of warmth when we go down tomorrow...but sadly there will of course be no hot water.