It was a mixture
of social events that kept us going throughout May. The first was lunch for
Beverley’s birthday with all the usual suspects at the Flask in Hampstead. We
were impressed with the Flask. It was a good English Pub with good food and
service. Marcus probably didn’t need to order the sausage platter though. A
platter implies you share it Marcus…It was then back to their huge flat in
Hampstead for general shenanigans and some old fashioned Circle of Death.
We did manage to get out of London in May too with a trip to St Albans, the old roman city and general nice place, just to the north of London. The London traffic meant we probably spent more time getting to and from there than we actually spent in St Albans but at least Iceberg got to go for a spin too. We checked out the cathedral and managed to score some lunch at the cathedral café. We wandered around the park which is where the old Roman city of Verulamium used to be. We didn’t see all the ruins but we looked at the old wall and some cool mosaics on what would have been someone’s living room floor a couple of thousand years ago. Apparently the oldest pub in the UK is supposed to be there too, however after seeing the outside we were not convinced we wanted to see the inside so decided to give it a miss. Probably a good idea when driving anyway. Overall a successful, if brief, trip to St Albans.
We caught
up with Ian and Amy at their place for some tasty BBQ dinner. We certainly miss
having some outdoor area at our flat and it is always good to burn some meat outdoors
and enjoy some good company.
It was Ian
and Amy’s place again for the “Murder at the Deadwood Saloon” murder mystery
evening. Marcus was Gambling Jack, he was successful but that success didn’t
all come honestly, and Jess was Bonnie the Banker, the wife of the banker,
although we all know who really controls the money. It was a great night of
fun, confusion, tacky costumes and bad western accents. Ricky was particularly
good. By the end of the night between us we had managed to collect no clues and
really had no idea what was going on or whodunit but it was excellent fun and
we would highly recommend it to anyone who gets the chance.
The next
night we made the journey down to Wandsworth to catch up with Anna and Perry.
Perry is Canadian so he was drumming up support for the Canucks who were on the
road to their first Stanley Cup. There was a good crowd of Canadians and Kiwis
there and although we don’t know much about Hockey we still had fun.
Unfortunately Perry was looking a bit scratched and sore. This was the first
time we had seen him since Yum Cha. Alas, upon returning home from Yum Cha he found he had
locked himself out of their flat. Instead of bothering Anna at work he decided
to use his ninja skills to scale the wall and enter the first floor window of their
flat. Suffice to say he was not successful and ended up in a hospital bed
rather than his own. Luckily all is well again although next time he will
probably just call Anna.
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