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A summer weekend

Just missing M who has moved to Singapore

It has been a long time since I met up with my girl friends.  I arranged for us to meet up for brunch this past Saturday to celebrate Sarah and Kine's birthdays.  We decided on a convenient place to meet which was near Tower Bridge.  As we get busy with our daily lives, our meet ups have decreased but it's nice to know we can always pick up from where we left off.

A tiny cake with a disproportionately large fireworks candle

When the waitress knew we were celebrating birthdays, she gave us 4 glasses of complimentary Kir Royale.
So sweet of her!

We chatted and updated one another of our lives that morning and promised we need to do this again soon.


Our parting shot

As I needed to wait around for my next train home, I wandered nearby to my favourite bridge.  Never tire of the view of this bridge.  Whenever Google map takes us over this bridge to our destinations, I get all excited.  Yep, still do after 8 years.





On Sunday we decided not to procrastinate anymore and start painting our front door alcove.  See when we installed our new front door, some of the blue paint got chipped off in the process and we were left with ugly exposed brown bits.  We bought a can of paint and have been waiting for the right day to do it.  Seriously summer is the right season to do home improvements like these and so this morning we woke up and decided TODAY IS PAINT DAY. :)

We did a few coats but because we bought a lighter shade of blue, we had to paint quite a few layers. We are still waiting for the paint to dry to see how it turns out but yes will share a pic once it is finished.

In the late afternoon the sun was still shining and we decided to drive into Kent.  K's criteria was "not too far away" and so I googled and decided on Lullingstone Castle, a 20 minute drive away.

Soon we were out in the countryside with rolling plains and blue skies.

We got there an hour before it closed and managed to do a short picnic by their lake

Love this shot - church on the left and the castle on the right

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