Autumn

Hmmm…what a lovely weekend has just flown by.  Is it me or have the lessening hours of daylight somehow made the days go faster too?  Or is it just my increasing old age?  Remember when your next birthday was for far away that when asked you’d state you were 4 and ¾?  Either way, I need more weekend…I mean, one of my primary career goal is to get a job that pays me enough that I can afford to cut down on the days I actually have to be there!

Oh, well.  Autumn seems to quickly be fading into winter, although the Fred Perry shop in Spitalfields has found an interesting way of preserving that autumnal spirit…  My question was where did they get the leaves from?  I mean, did they go and fetch them from the park or does some kind of bespoke leaf gathering organisation exist?  Intriguing.

Other places and plunged head long into the festive side of winter though, Sloane Square was sparkly…

…the Saatchi Gallery was specialising in giant baubles and snowballs, a theme carried on in Covent Garden, where the glitter balls added a certain ‘disco’ element…

…and the Kings Road seems to have gone for cute creatures, I especially liked the tiny polar bears.  All in all a pretty good start to decorations and it’s making me look forward to the season of good will, gifts and mulled wine with gusto.  (Unlike organising our work Christmas do, which is rapidly shredding my faith in humanity, but that’s another story.)

Oh, and in case you were worrying, I haven’t gone and become a Sloane, I just went to a restaurant there, The Big Easy  BBQ fare, very good, check it out!