Day 1 - Monday 19th March 2007

The Boy's Work Experience, London Town
or, Loos of London (the Bog Blog)

Day 1 - Monday March 19th 2007.

We were staying at 'Tudor Towers' (only kidding), home of the lovely Mr and Mrs Tudor, who we are related to (me only by marriage) and who are actually really the king and queen of Merrye Olde Englande. This is their castle in Highgate. It is most pleasing and extremely comfortable and we are very, very grateful!

Here is The Boy at 'the office'. You can tell he is not a real working man as he is smiling too much!This is the studio of Rokkit TV (www.rokkit.tv) who were kind and brave enough to take him on and show him the ropes of fetching the groceries, watching cartoons, cataloguing tapes and meeting Tony Slattery.

Seriously, The Boy got a real taste of life as a runner - even finishing work at 6.30pm!

Here is The Boy in the studio with his wonderful mentor, Ollie. Note the huge TV behind them! A big thanks to Ollie, who was great.

This is the branch of Caffe Nero on Tottenham Court Road where I went every morning to read the Metro, use the loo (foul!), plan my day and drink coffee. Then we'd meet up there after work in the evening.

I saw these monsters in the window of Habitat on Regents Street on my first day of wandering. They're designed by Christian Lacroix (dahling!) - aren't they cute?

The wonderful, ridiculous, only-the-English-could-do-it Liberty! I think Liberty is possibly even sillier than Harrods. 5 floors of Tudorbethan madness selling the most old-fashioned products imaginable. The first table visible inside their cafe (called 'Tea') has arm chairs and is nestled under an absurd tassled standard lamp. It's all incredibly Alice in Wonderland. I love it!!
Their toilets, however, were a huge disappointment.