FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I went for a ramble into town yesterday!Found myself in Regent's Park. A very posh royal park (formerly a royal hunting-ground).
Gold-tipped railings. Everything immaculately kept.
I wandered along the Outer Circle, peering through the hedges at the exclusive homes of Chester Terrace (top right).
One day I'm going to live in a house like that and nobody will be able to call me scum.
Though North of the Park (Hyde Park!)/South of the River. Inconsolably vulgar! Plus miles from the shops (that is, the proper shops of Knightsbridge, Sloane Square and the Kings Road) though Regents Park does have the consolation of being near Camden, most convenient for the individual who wishes to live in a 5-storey £10 million* single-fronted stucco'd townhouse in easy reach of indoor markets selling funky fluorescing clubgear...
{*ooo! correction less than £5 million. Number 9 Chester terrace is on sale as we speak. As I say they were only 5 stories and single-fronted (I'd prefer the double-fronted cuboid houses with gargantuan bay windows in Holland Park; that's where I'd actually go if not Chelsea or Knightsbridge) ~ not to mention vulgarly north of "thee" park and execrably pokey.
{I certainly wouldn't feel out of place in prime West London property. And unlike certain vulgar celebrities, when I make my millions I most certainly shall not be shipping out to an outsized Barrat Home in East Essex!
{(Though Barratt have knocked up some delightfully steel-and-glass yuppie flats in the former East London docklands...)...}
Madonna lives near Regent's Park, but I didn't catch sight of her jogging.
The main attraction here (apart from London zoo which I didn't have time, let alone money to poke round) was the supposed red squirrels of North Regents Park, which I've seen with my own eyes (albeit when I was all of seven years old).
But disappointment on disappointment. Nary a squirrel to be found...
And the only ones that were were grey
VIDEOS:
1: PINGPING: WORLD'S SMALLEST MAN!
It's oGuinness Book of Recordsfficial. He Pingping, from Chinese inner Mongolia, aged 20 is a big hit with the ladies. This week he was in London promoting the 2009 , in which he claims said title. This guy is barely more than 2 ft tall!
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2: JACK RUSSEL VS KITTYCAT
There was supposed to be a video of Pingping wrestling a housecat. But being as I can't find that, thought this dwarf dog rolling on the carpet with a much larger tabby would suffice...
Yes, but imagine the house parties you could have in a house like that!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good day all in all. I love strolling and having no destination, that's when you find the most interesting things.
ReplyDeleteCrushed: I know. + within easy reach of Camden. I'd make sure Amy Winehouse came... My absolutely ideal home would have a ballroom though...
ReplyDeleteEileen: I just wish I'd had more energy to scroll to wherever those red squirrels have gone into hiding...
A Ballroom! You mean a place to dance not the Ikea, plonk your kids in a basement full of plastic balls kind of ballroom? Why you old twinkle toes you!
ReplyDeleteMy absolute ideal home would have a Theatre and recliners and surround sound so loud it makes the walls vibrate!
(erm stop peering through bushes . .you might look a bit sus!)
Oh yes ... I want at least a personal bedroom for every day of the week plus a room for every purpose. So not only a classical ballroom but a rave room, a home theatre, home cinema plus a mezzanine'd room full of plastic balls so you can jump down in off the balcony!
ReplyDeleteOf course I simply must have an indoor (not to mention outdoor) swimming pool.
I SO want to visit London one day - while i'm still able to get around under my own steam that is!
ReplyDeleteYou're talking a lottery win to buy a house like that Gleds. I live in hope though I wouldn't move to London for all the tea in China - I'm a norther gal!
ReplyDeleteMy ideal house would have a billiards room and a library, probably a theatre where bands could play. One of those tube maze things (like at McDonald's, only larger). Haha, it would be sweet. I'd also get a chef so that I could have lots of tasty food right in the house instead of far away. That would be awesome. Also a stable, I want some horses too. = )
ReplyDeleteVincent and I live in the garden room in the back of my parent's garden and also dream of what our home might be one day!
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The video of the cat and dog wrestling is hilarious. Do you suppose they got the cat to do this so they don't have to walk the dog for it's business do daas*?*
ReplyDeleteDidn't Madonna recently buy the house next door to her and uses it as her private gym ... I saw her on tv a couple of months ago come out of one town house jog a few paces and into the one next door. Gym fees are exy in London ;)
sounds like you had a great walk and good to dream too...sometimes your dreams come true :-)
ReplyDeleteMonogram: go! This is Centre of the Universe (New York can be Center of the Universe) ;->...
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: t'would have to be a rollover.
Or my book when it's an international bestseller!!!!
Lucinda: I'd have a gold card with the local Chinese takeaway...
Nicole: Do you know I didn't even realize you were still "dossing" I had assumed you rented a flat or even got a mortgage... hardly the best time for new mortgages now though...
Rohit: is this a piece of spam I see before me..?
ReplyDeleteBimbimbie: yes, absolutely true re Madonna. According to The Sun newspaper...
Sally: hope so!