A Flock of Squirrels (Mon 19)

This is Henry from Green Park. He is a good mate of ours. He is brave and like bananas and doing crazy twisty teenage cat jumps into the air to entertain visitors. The girls thought he was SO cute ... as did the crusty parents truth be told. We was one of three we saw in Green Park. This was to be followed by another thirty one in St James Park - they pack 'em in like battery hens there.

Beforehand we went to the free Victoria and Albert Museum. We looked at a protester exhibition, passed on the expensive special wedding exhibition, wandered including Michael seeing some Raphael cartoons which were each the size of a large wall. They are called cartoons because they were painted on paper to be used as templates for creating tapestries at the Sistine Chapel. Lunch was awesome at the cafe - run by Italians in a stained glass hall. Then a boggabilla bus (double decker bus) to cross off an item off Meg's checklist to the squirrels (another check), Buckingham Palace (check), walk past Big Ben (check) and a ride on the London Eyonce ferris wheel for Meg and Michael (check). 

Home for dindins with each Ando buying a microwave meal from Sainsbury's - so much choice! To finish we watched a musical, Once, which is based in an Irish pub and where the whole cast played instruments and sang regularly including the lead Ronan Keating.