free lunch, from the tardis, beneath the gerkin...

Sounds like I've had a wild weekend on something illegal from Amsterdam! But no, this is essentially a long-winded story about Anna and I having lunch today....

Where to start? It seems that the streets of London are paved in silver and bronze and the occasional gold. Since arriving here, I've been finding money. A fair amount of money. At first I didn't pick it up - but I kept seeing it so I decided I would see how much I could gather. Just like a little magpie, searching for shiny things... For the first few months I put it in my purse and spent it.

For christmas, my housemate Scott gave me a Tardis money box!! It's the most amazing thing - you have to open the doors to put the money in and as you open them the Dr talks to you (usually a line from the series). Mmm, David Tennant..! [2 minute daydream]. Where was I? Oh yes, and as you close the doors a blue light on top flashes and the Tardis makes it's disappearing noise. It's ace!!

So from christmas I began putting my findings in the Tardis. I emptied it last week and gave the coins to Anna to deposit via the coin counting machine at her bank. As you can see from the receipts I found 15 pounds and 35 pence! That's like $35! (There was so much to count that the machine broke down in the middle of it all).

I wondered what I could do with these winnings, and decided I would take Anna out for lunch. I met her today (thurs) beneath the famous Gerkin, otherwise known as the Credit Suisse building (also amusingly, overheard it called the Aubergine by an american tourist), and we ate from a fancy cafe whilst admiring the view above us. We were going to try one of the cafe's massive meringues, but we were too full to contemplate them! Of course I had to do a self-portrait, sorry abut the unflattering view of my chins...

So, a free lunch courtesy of Londoners who don't care to pick up their 1 & 2p's - from the Tardis - sitting beneath the Gerkin. Nowhere else but London.....