Summer Lunch

Mobile phone shot of Green Park in 2003It’s been glorious weather for a Friday: bright, warm, sunny and very pleasant indeed. After visiting Fortnum and Mason we ate lunch in Green Park. Sadly this picture, from the mobile camera, doesn’t do the scene justice. The spring daffodils were in full bloom and and people sat soaking up the sunshine on the peppermint striped deckchairs and being forced to pay the attendant some small amount of money. It’s strange because I do consider London to be noisy and polluted but sometimes, especially on a day like this, it is quite easy to forget that you are in the middle of a busy city and there’s a war raging somewhere across the world. It’s certainly very relaxing and the lunch hour is all too swiftly over.

On this day…