Well the weekend is over and a week of work is looming.

I have had a long weekend as i finished work on thursday lunchtime to meet my friend Kerri and her 2 sons Eli and Dylan. We had a busy couple of days planned so it was all systems go. Eli is 6 and Dylan has just turned 8 so everything had to be child friendly. The first stop was the Natural History Museum which was fun for all. Although there were points that even me and Kerri thought were a tad innappropriate - the stuffed animals eating each other was not exactly the nicest thing to see. However, the boys loved the Dinosaurs and the simulated earthquake so that was fine. We got home and had food and watched the DVD "Night at the museum" - it's kinda ok if a bit cheesy and i can't help but loathe Ben Stiller.

Friday morning we headed to the British Museum to looks at lots of Egyptian tombs and Islamic plates. We also managed to get totally lost and it took us about half an hour t leave the building. After that we went to Starbucks as we wanted to experience the worst customer service ever, this included toilets that didn't work, staff not seeming to understand that children would need hand towels to dry their hands after washing them and then just as we thought things could not get worse a member of staff walked right past the boys and said at the top of her voice "jesus f*cking christ!" - charmed i'm sure.

Friday afternoon we had booked to go on the duck bus which is basically a tour bus that goes round the sights and then goes straight into the thames. The tour was quite fun, our guide reminded us of Jack Dee and going into the thames was fun although be warned it goes very slowly! so even thought you are in the water for 40 minutes you basically just get to see the houses of parliament. After that we headed to Angel for some much needed Pizza Express before heading to the cinema to see the only child friendly film on - "National Treasure - Book of Secrets" - the new Nicholas Cage film, it was way too confusing for the boys, i thought i would enjoy it but by the end i was wanting to jab 2 biros in my eyes - how the marvellous Helen Mirren could attach herself to this film is beyond me, they must have padi her the big bucks!

On Saturday we surprised the boys by taking them to Hamleys!! I love that store and so did the boys, they were so smiley and both got lots of lovely things, a quick lunch and then back to Sheffield they went. I was left feeling shattered, kids are hard work! they eat all the time!! it was so lovely to see them thought and they were so well behaved and polite. I am seeing them agin in 2 weeks when i head up to Sheffield.

After 2 days of children i was in much need of adult company so headed to Angel to meet Pete and David for talk of men and booze! great to catch up, Oliver came over on Saturday night and we headed out to Bar Music Hall in Shoreditch for Jodie Harsh's night which was full of fashionistas judging each other, thankfully there was anice tranny on the door who let us straight in despite the queue, guess we must have looked the part, that was followed by a couple of beers in the lovely Joiners Arms on Hackney Road. Felt quite hungover yesterday despite not actually drinking much. A coffee with Pete, Kaz and T soon sorted me out and i spent the rest of the night curled up on the sofa watching a Dylan Moran dvd, the man is a genius and had me in fits. So all in all a good weekend. Not sure what this week has in store, next weekend will be another quiet one as my parents are coming to stay, this is actually a good thing as i wont be drinking myself crazy and may even get to see some culture.

I think i may have spoken to soon regarding Madonna's directorial debut, it seems that most critics have not been so kind. Ah well the single and the album will be out soon so thats something for me to get excited about. I have a feeling this album is going to be one of her best yet, there is a huge buzz around it already and not just in my head

xx