Fleur-Bert!

A very old and very dear friend of mine Fleur came to visit with my sister Shellie and her boyfriend Simon. Fleur was a girl we have known since we were little and we grew up like sisters spending weeks at a time at each others houses only to finally be taken home and ending up staying at the other persons house! Sadly she moved away to Thailand and so we mostly lost touch with her as that was the dark days before the interweb and the glories of facebook.

However she has finally come home to England and is actually getting married next Friday, an event to which we are invited hurrah! She was up in London sorting out the last few bits for said wedding and arranging details with Shellie who is going to be her maid of honour ( I think!)

They arrived Thursday and we sat chatting and I showed off Edward to a very delighted Fleur, then we went out to dinner leaving Luke in the safety of the pollen free house helpfully babysitting. Fittingly enough we went to the Thai place at the end of my street and it was nice as Fleur could talk to the staff in Thai, though the waiter did a real double take when she first started speaking to him. She was quite amused by the coconut rice as in Thailand it's only really eaten as a pudding with mango, something I already knew, but I don't care it's so tasty I could eat bowls of it just on it's own :o)

The next day we all went shopping on Oxford street as Fleur wanted to get some stockings to complete her bridal outfit aswell as a dress for the next day. We had fun in Ann Summers, especially Edward who ate his breakfast there whilst giving his best flirty eyes to the manikins that he thought were real ladies...bless!

We spent hours in Monsoon and found a perfect dress for Fleur in Laura Ashley though had to get a nicer ribbon for it in John Lewis. Shellie then had to go as she had patients, but Fleur and I stayed on and had lunch in the cafe at the top of John Lewis as it has a nice view, and also rather fantastically gives out free baby food!

It was a really good fun girly day though a bit of a mad rush at the end as tragically there had been an accident on Oxford Street and it was closed and so we couldn't get a bus and had to dash all the way home and then to Paddington to put Fleur on the train home.