children all seemed somewhat bewildered, but the parents all seemed pretty excited about the "Whoooo Hoooo!'s" and the "Oh no you won't!'s". It certainly makes you think about the fact that such a beloved figure of English family culture is a drunk who beats up his wife and children....We were also treated to seeing children dancing around the maypole. They were all dressed up in their colourful costumes and moving their ribbons around. This was all nice and cute, but the woman who was leading was slightly too overenthusiastic about the whole thing. She clearly spends the whole year preparing for the maypole and this was her day to shine. After that (and seeing the goth puppeteers with their goth puppets...) we had had enough of English culture and decided it was time to head home.During the week Jess quite rightly decided we hadn't been getting much culture for a while so we went to the Portrait Gallery. The place is 3 floors so we decided that rather than get frustrated by trying to do the whole lot in one night we would do one floor tonight and the rest later. So we got have a good look around all the really old portraits. Famous Kings and Queens of England from early times. Very impressive.
Friday we went back down to Tooting to see Chris and Rachel for the last time before they went back to New Zealand. It was good to catch up with them for the last time for a while, along with Tom and Gini and Tree and Katie.
Saturday it was time for our flatwarming. Contrary to popular opinion it was not a BBQ, but there was certainly plenty of snack food to go around. Cocktail theme worked out well with a mixture of Pims (really Pitchers which is much cheaper...) punch, mojitos, moscow mules and probably a few other drinks which people were experimenting with. Turnout was small but we had a good time nonetheless and partied into the early hours without disturbing the neighbours (we hope).
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