I want to be Angelina Jolie...

Yesterday, I was feeling a bit blah at work so I got the tube to Covent Garden at lunchtime and had a look around the shops there. I bought a top in Reiss (my favourite shop), a gray t-shirt in Gap and new Clinique lipstick from The Garden Pharmacy. I had my shopping "head" on, and was thinking - oh I'll just have a look in Hobbs when I realised oh shit, I'm supposed to be at work, not shopping....

It was 2:30 by then, so I had to get a cab back to the office. Lunchtime shopping is dangerous indeed.

Anyway, today I thought I would stick to the shops around my office. I was poking around in Boots, when I saw this.




I'm such a sucker for good packaging. It's almost too pretty to open :) Maybe all it takes is some lip-plumping gloss to turn me into Angelina Jolie?

Royal &*$%ing Mail.

Mr K-E asked me if I was losing interest in blogging. The answer is no, but what with all the stuff going on at work, I haven't really been up to anything interesting. Well, nothing that I'd want to broadcast on a public platform anyway :)

One thing that really hacked me off this weekend was my purchase from strawberrynet.com. Someone recommended it, so I tried it out but was shocked to find charges of £13.95 before it could be delivered!! £5.75 VAT because it's been "imported" from outside the EU and £8 Royal Mail charges.

OK I can accept the 17.5% Value Added Tax because it is imported etc etc...but Royal Mail's £8 admin charge is just extortionate! Aarrrggghhhh. And the free lipstick they sent me was a disgusting shade, not the one I ordered.

*Grrrrr*

Intensity

I haven't blogged all week because it's been really intense at work. I was contemplating going in to work today, but by Friday night I was pretty much burnt out. Just mentally and physically exhausted, but had a nice dinner with Mr K-E in Chinatown which made me feel much better.

I've spent most of today sleeping.

South London skyline

Mr K-E took this without a tripod. Clever Mr K-E.

Hot Weekend

Oh, it's been soooooo hot this weekend! Please, I need air-conditioning. I know it's so bad for the environment, but sweat is so unattractive....

Mr K-E has been out in the garden weeding, mowing the lawn etc while I have been hiding inside with the blinds down and eating ice cream.

I went to the Friday drink-up at the pub for the first time in ages. I've been avoiding it lately because of all my Boss woes, but it was the leaving-do for two of my best friends in the office. Two women, actually, which skews the office girl-boy ratio even more.

Baaaaa (or Mr K-E and the sheep)

Isn't this a lovely view? Even a self-proclaimed urban chick like me can appreciate the rolling fields of England.

Every two weeks, Mr K-E has to travel to Hereford (on the English-Welsh border) for all day meetings. The train journey is a bit of a pain, but once he gets there he quite enjoys the change from London. The view above is of the area surrounding the office that he visits.


In the meeting room they can see and hear sheep outside. Mr K-E says it's hard to be serious when all you can hear is "Baaaa, Baaaa".





The office is a converted barn. Nice, huh? By the way, Hereford is famous for its beef not lamb.

Carmen Jones at the Royal Festival Hall

I went to watch Carmen Jones at the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall last night. I thought it was very good - both the show and the new auditorium.

Mr K-E had already been to the new hall as his company was involved in the refurbishment. He and his colleagues were invited to an acoustic tuning concert to test the new baffle boards, drapes and other acoustic tweaking devices.

The show is based on Bizet's opera Carmen. It is a Hammerstein musical, with English lyrics set to Bizet's music. Most of the music is really familiar, most people would recognise it if they heard it but the modern twist is refreshing and interesting.

The production was full of energy and the woman who played Carmen - woo hooo! She had long, long legs and boy, could she work a red dress. Her accent was all over the place though.

Another unusual point was that the orchestra was very casually dressed. T-shirts and hoodies! Not even wearing a colour scheme or anything like that. It's very deliberate I'm sure as the orchestra was right in the middle of the stage, and the performers ran around the orchestra.

Highly recommended. Go see.