The tube strike has had no effect on the people around here, everything is just as packed as ever this week. We left the British Museum for today so we didn't need any transport - we walked up Shaftsbury and Fid remembered the Forbidden Planet store he clocked the afternoon we first arrived. This place is stocked up with every kind of trinket from every kind of cult sensation from the last 40 years. Figurines of every Doctor, a Walter White dressed for the co...

Kidzania is a mini real life city built for kids. They get to role play over 60 different jobs like Police, Dentist, Ambulance driver, Cadbury factory worker, F1 pit crew, Pilot, H&M Model, check out chick, chef, etc. Whatever they do they get paid for and then have to chose if they want to spend or save their money. Westfields invented it as a childcare option, allowing you to drop off the kids for hours and go do some real world shopping. Through the doors at W...

The top two things on the kids list were Hamely's and Pineapple studios, both of which are right on our doorstep. Covent Garden was first, strolling through the westend I didn't realise how many theatres are in the roads off Shaftesbury, you wouldn't need to walk more than a few minutes to visit nearly a dozen of them. If Boo was excited to visit Pineapple Studios, the store where they get to cash in on all that expectation stood no chance - Gab & Boo...

We met the Beard family on last year's mediterranean cruise and were thrilled we could catch up this year in London. We got a little lost but eventually rounded a corner and instantly lost the kids. They were a few steps in front of us, but as soon as they saw the pub they bolted for it, they were bursting to see Madie & James.  The kids bounced as their oceans of excitement struggled to get out, it was lovely to see how happy they all were to be together ag...

I think we'd missed sleep for so long we all gorged on it last night, no one was up before 10am, bliss. Eventually dressed, we headed to Green Park for a pub lunch and stroll. My god the tube is fantastic, we shopped a little in the area and headed back to get ready for the big event. If the stress and excitement in our apartment was anything to go by, the first one of these two to get married will lead to hospitalisation. Between Boo fussing with her nails a...