sundry day

today was a lovely, lazy, hot & steamy london day. we woke up & puttered around the house. watching tv about how to become a real estate developer & cheesy uk high-school drama shows (nothing as kwality as "edgemont" though -- the ship that launched a thousand careers.) eventually we ambled outside, to realize what we suspected - the weather was hot peeling blister. anyway, i will take that over needing to add layers of fleece to my wardrobe only to peel them all off 10 minutes later (the hague is already a fond memory for me.) anyway, our plan was to head to the muji store in covent garden (which i always think of as convent garden). when we got out of the train station at charing cross, sitting right outside were three ladies having some food & a chat. nothing extraordinary about that. but but but. one of them was pure money shot. her ass was hanging out of her pants. i'm not talking plumber butt here. after all, plumbers have decency & decorum. this unfortunate soul was fully & completely baring at least 1/3 to 1/2 of her buttocks. her derriere was being aired. okay that was bad. but still. and so of course (with some but not much prodding from J), i took a photograph, feigning that i was taking a picture of J. M decided to walk far away from us as quickly as possible, lest he be associated with the likes of us. anyway, i was 75% tempted to tell her. J thought she HAD to know. after all, butt cheeks in the breeze, that is all we are. at the last minute, i decided not to tell her. after all, she might have been tanning it. the rest of the day was fun. we went to the muji store. they were selling clothing on sale so i bought a t-shirt & a jacket. then we went to a store for men's clothing. i flirted (for practice) with the security / sales guy. then M bought a funky shirt he probably wouldn't have chosen for himself. but it looks great. then we left that place & went to wagamama for me to have my lupper or dunch or whatever eating at 3 pm is. we then had to go home so i could pack up my new purchases & then head back over to london city airport (p.s. i'm at the airport right now, and i cannot suggest any more strenuously that if the price is not terribly more expensive, consider flying into london city. it's in the city, attached to public transportation & very easy to navigate, get your boarding card, etc.) so J & M brought me to the airport like the sweeties that they are (and they each carried one of my bags all the way here!! super nice!!) and then i checked in, cleared security and am now sitting here waiting. thinking about how too too too too short this visit was. don't worry J & M, i will come back to blackheath / greenwich and stay forever.