Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Girls

One of the unforeseen bonuses of moving to the other side of the world has been the creation of my blog...and as a result meeting an amazing bunch of fellow bloggers.


A couple of days ago, in London, I met some bloggers at an afternoon tea organised by Laura, whom I first met last year.


She picked an amazing venue called Sketch...a visual feast for bloggers armed with cameras...


The food was beautifully presented, and together with French champagne and an extensive tea menu...we happily fed our faces..


...and got to know each other. There is nothing like a gaggle of geese group of women coming together and not drawing breath for three hours!!


We met in The Glade with it's decoupaged fairytale forest and later had the opportunity to look around this wonderful venue..


We found scrumptious cakes on display in The Parlour...


...resplendent in it's decor with this amazing light fixture. Everywhere we looked there was innovative and creative detail..


including the staff who appeared in various costumes..


An example of a controversial art installation, one of two Madonnas which had arrived the day we visited...

But...are you ready for the loos....


Talk about blow my mind..subdued lighting, mirrors, sparkling crystals...


spiderwebs, neon lights...and blimey...have a look at the toilet roll..


it has it's own trapeze!!

Now, from the sublime to the ridiculous...


these eggs are fair dinkum individual toilet cubicles...built in what was the original carriage house attached to this building...

What can I say...


except..it was fantastic to meet you all...Sarah & baby Sophie, Selena, Liz, Charlotte, Becky, Gesci, Louise, Belinda and Sarah-Jane...and thankyou Laura for organizing such a fun day. xx