Pussy cat pussy cat, where have you been?

We came to London to visit the queen... but she's closed her palace as summer is now over. While we couldn't get close enough to see if we could make the guards larf, we watched them marching around from outside the gates.

Guard at Buckingham Palace

Simon and Marie (who Em used to work with) were passing through London on a "work trip", and we had a fantastic night out with them at a great London pub in Notting Hill, before kicking on with their friend Rupert who owns Aura, a night club in West End (he is also the designer behind Buddhist Punk). The scene at Aura was like nothing we've ever experienced before. When you order one of their expensive bottles of champagne, a waitress attaches little sparkling flares to the neck of it, and carries it high above her head to your table... just so that everyone knows that YOU were the cashed up one!

Em and Gwil at Aura