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Sat, 01 Jul 2006
[13:58] A visit to the zoo Hamleys
We popped out to do a bit of shopping today. I purchased a beautiful "How to play Chess" book for Shona at the Embankment second-hand book market last week and I've been hanging out to get a chess set to start learning on and I've also been trying to locate a set of Ye Olde Styleie Jacks
and Hamleys seemed to be the most likely place to locate such things so we boarded the number 3 and headed into London town!
The first hurdle of the day came when we found that our bus was not going to take us all the way in (as it normally does) because the EuroPride march had blockaded most of the city off and we were rather uncerimonisouly dumped by a somewhat shirty bus driver about 5 klicks down the road from our house and ended up walking over to the Westminster tube (which was a filthy skank-hole since the temperature was around 30 celcius). Anyway, we got into the city and managed to get a look at the parade which happened to be running down the road directly out the front of Hamleys anyway. As usual, Aussies had crashed the party (if you can find a good time going on in London guaranteed there'll be a bloke somewhere nearby with an Aussie flag and a beer) and in amongst the lady-boys and be-leathered gentlemen there was the rather incongruous flag:
I was disappointed to find that Hamleys did not stock Jacks, they DID however have a nice All-in-one Games Chest that included chess, draughts, backgammon (one of Shona favourites) and a game that the on-call phone from my last job introduced me to: Mancala. We spent a while wandering around playing with cool stuff (the shop has TEN stories of toys) and we stumbled across what essentially amounted to a stuffed zoo. Shona found a most fetching camel:
[Posted at: 01/07/2006 21:58]
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