Yesterday.

Alice and I left the house at half past twelve and set out for New Cross in search of Gabby. We took the 171 to Camberwell to see Art Bin, which is a '600m³ container for the disposal of works of art'. Read giant plastic box with lots of unloved paintings/ skinned penguins/ creepy monkeys inside. We watched as one art-girl took over ten minutes to decide upon the artistic placing of her blue ceramic bowl. I was driven to yell "Get on with it! Smash it against the wall!" but we left instead. Probably for the best. We are contemplating creating some shoddy artwork with the specific intention of throwing it into the art bin and when I do so I am going to dispose of it without a care in the world. We went to Wagamama in Covent Garden for lunch and for once I came very close to finishing my noodles :) Then we went to Fopp where we spent far too many £s between us. I bought films to make me extra excited about Paree. Gabby and Alice had work at six, so we went to the National Gallery cafe for afternoon tea, hot chocolate and toffee apple tart omnom.


At half past five I went to Lazy Oaf for the launch of their new shop. I was seventh in the queue for the longest time - fearing that a forty-three man mob would turn up at any minute and steal all the goody-bags - but it was absolutely worth it as I got into the shop before the majority of the crowds, grabbed myself a Kopparberg and a handful of Jelly Bellies and had a nice long look around the new stock (eyes on another Andrew Rae postcard book). The aforementioned goody bag was a mixture of badges, postcards, jelly beans, purses, tote bags and stickers and I was particularly pleased to note that the Groucho Marx design was among them.


I rounded off a good day with a trip to Cineworld to see Micmacs, which was a satirical take on the arms industry in true Jean-Pierre Jeunet style. I recommend you watch it, particularly if you enjoyed the revenge-the-Greengrocer scenes in Amelie :)