I want these?

Help! I don’t know what has come over me, I find these Clarks Originals sandals perversely desirable, I was actually in the process of looking for something identical for Erbie when I came across them. Perhaps it is the necessity of choosing a style that is suitable for carrying a small child around on one hip, the thought of teetering on heels whilst doing so does not look well in my minds eye.

Which puts paid to the Chanel copyclogs I also found on asos.

Hanover Square elephants

A bit of a late post for these two elephants as I really saw then on my evening out to see Sex and the City 2 or Selfish and Slutty as it seems to be referred to in the media - honestly, people get so riled about a bit of fluff and some old girls in mad frocks, – I say, more please.

The GR has also found me a map of where all the elephants are and by whom, so now I have no excuse and should post about them properly.

#64 & #65

Claridges, Sex and the City 2, 3 more elephants!

The lovely managing agents of out W1 flat have insisted we hold dear to the 2 months notice stipulated in our contract. 7 weeks it seems are not enough, so now we will be paying a mortgage and rent in July- oh joy. The GR is not in the best of moods about it as he was hoping we could use our deposit money for the first mortgage payment and for the cost of moving, now it looks like we will have to kiss that goodbye. One more thing in a long list of obstacles in our getting back home which has lowered moral further.

Good things have happened though:

The Chelsea Flower Show for one.

Claridges decor during the Chealsea Flower show was not too showy with a cottage garden feel, inside were arches of branches hung with of terracotta pots filled with peonies and sweetpea and outside this wonderwall of planted flowers.

I went out for a whole evening - to see Sex and The City 2.

We started off with cocktails in Claridges then a quick supper in Shepherds Market followed by Prosecco during movie at Curzon Mayfair then a night cap on the 23rd floor of the Hilton, which was full of Russians and vastly overpriced (£29.90 for 2 cocktails) but the views we amazing.

View from the Hilton, Mayfair W1, London.

And yes, I really enjoyed the film, everyone was dressed up, the cinema was full; it was a riot of fashion from start to finish, in fact the whole thing was like a big gay wedding and Liza Minnelli was superb. Also an added bonus running home like Cinderella in broken slippers I saw 3 more elephants. I was running as it had long gone midnight and The Gr had just texted to say Erbie was still awake! When I did get home he actually had managed to put him to bed. Erbie woke the next morning saying ‘there she am’. ‘Mummy, there she am’.

#61

#62, #63

Sixty

Erbie and I went out looking for elephants proper yesterday, having been given a heads up from an old school friend there were some in Covent Garden we headed over. Whilst there, we couldn’t resist riding on the escalators at the Royal Opera House.

Ballerina statue outside the Old Bailey.

Views over the piazza in Covent Garden from the roof of the Royal Opera House.

The magnificent Pierrier Jouet champagne bar inside the Royal Opera House.

And so to elephants...

Numbers #31, #32 at entrance to ROH

Numbers #33

#34,

#35,

#36, inside the Covent Garden piazza.

#37 Covent Garden

#38 in front of the Actors Church, Covent Garden

#39

#40, Seven Dials.

In the afternoon, I had to head up to Marble Arch to pick up a job, so I took Erbie via Carnaby Street and up through Mayfair, I forget how wonderful the shop windows are around there, especially on Old Bond Street and in Burlington Arcade.

Carnaby Street, #41

#42

#43, By now Erbie was spotting them faster than me and running up to pat their trunks.

#44, Resting shoppers Between Carnaby and Regent Street.

#45

I didn’t note down the street names, so these will have to come under the umbrella of Mayfair.

#46

#47

#48, with Winston Churchill, Mayfair.

#49 Vettriano’s elephant and rider, Burlington Arcade

#50, and a gem encrusted elephant with sparkly pink toenails also in Burlington Arcade.

#51 Berkeley Square Gardens, darling.

#52

#53, Erbie’s favourite, because it has a bus AND a taxi!

#54

#55

#56

#57

#58 Berkeley Square Gardens

#59, Mayfair

#60 Back in St Christopher’s Place.

Thirty new elephants in one day - not bad going I reckon. Do let me know if you spot any, and where, I’ve heard there are some in Hyde Park too, but that’s for another day.