NFRC: Heading to London for a month

I'm juicin' for Dishoom...

Thanks for these amazing pics, Marilyn! So many great experiences in London.

Being a Beatles fan since childhood, I HAD to take the family on a (mostly) walking tour of Beatles historical sites in London, including Abbey Road Studios and the train station where the beginning chase scenes of A Hard Day's Night were filmed.

Our youngest, during our 2019 trip. He loved both London and Paris, but says he may someday want to live in Paris, as he "liked the vibe".

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Well, he certainly nailed the Parisian scarf technique (I failed that one.)

Michael, Dishoom has a cook book, but it's big and thick and I came with one carry-on for a month. This was my packing philosophy: no one knows me here; I’m all over London every day >> so I can wear the same 6 outfits because who cares what I’m wearing!

Obviously, when I walked down New Bond Street (home to Bulgari, Stella McCartney, Louis Vuitton, Patek Phillipe, Cartier, etc…stores with a GNP greater than North Carolina) wearing my Keens and pants with a torn hem fixed with PT kinesiology tape…I did not blend in.
 
Walking to the Science Museum yesterday, I passed a Turkish restaurant in a residential area and decided to pop in for brunch.
Had shakshura with Turkish bread and Turkish tea. It was delicious. The bread didn’t have the small burnt areas like the ones from the open oven bakery, but it still worked. The tea was perfect with it.

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While at the Science museum, I took a tour in the Mathematics zone which this video perfectly captures:

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Mathematics: The Winton Gallery | Science Museum

Visit our bold and thought-provoking gallery to explore the role mathematics has played in building our world.
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The Zaha Hadid sculpture represents the flow dynamics of air over the wing span.

When we got to the display with all the monetary scales for comparison to Englands, the docent selected me to be Queen Elizabeth I and asked what I thought was the most pressing issue as the Queen??

(Oh…a test. Nobody told me there would be a test!)

I said: The Plague.

Wrong answer, he says. Try again. Your Majesty.

I said: War with the Spanish Armada.

Wrong again.

He said collecting “tax revenue” was most important.

[So while I didn’t openly debate this, I think if you’re DEAD from the plague or DYING on a sinking ship, your first concern isn’t paying your taxes.]

At yet another museum: National Portrait Gallery.

Apparently my back HATES marble floors so I took a tea/scone/Advil break:
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Unbelievable! These scones were $10 and the tea was extra.

Meanwhile I had made 8 dozen mini scones and 3 dozen full size scones at my FREE library scone demonstration class.

What a moron.

Obviously, my subjects would have all died from the Plague because I suck at collecting tax revenue.
 
marilynfl said:
Well, he certainly nailed the Parisian scarf technique (I failed that one.)

Michael, Dishoom has a cook book, but it's big and thick and I came with one carry-on for a month. This was my packing philosophy: no one knows me here; I’m all over London every day >> so I can wear the same 6 outfits because who cares what I’m wearing!

Obviously, when I walked down New Bond Street (home to Bulgari, Stella McCartney, Louis Vuitton, Patek Phillipe, Cartier, etc…stores with a GNP greater than North Carolina) wearing my Keens and pants with a torn hem fixed with PT kinesiology tape…I did not blend in.
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Ha! That boy loves to dress up. His cousins always tease him because, as they say, they are jealous of his eclectic taste in clothing style... "He can wear ANYTHING and get away with it!"

Perhaps a big reason he likes Paris.

My other son got me that cookbook from Dishoom as a surprise Christmas present after we returned home. I've used it several times. Some recipes are pretty straightforward, while others instruct you to make one or two other recipes BEFORE you can make the one you happen to be interested in. Indian cooking is a commitment!

Luckily, you can also order it from Amazon:

 
So remember the decree from the Science Museum docent that “tax revenue” was the most critical issue for Queen Elizabeth I?

Well, you don’t see them doing London tours for tax revenue, do you now, Mr. “I Know Better Than You” museum guide.

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marilynfl said:
Tuesday, May 13: So remember when I didn’t get to have lunch or dinner at the Sky Garden? That was okay because I had reservations the next day for here:

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And while I was eating, look who showed up for a photo shoot for their Instagram page:

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Yep…that’s Peggy (and my used napkin). She smiled at me, so I told her I had all her recipe books and thanked her for making me a better baker.

It was LITERALLY the buttercream icing on the top of this trip.

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Wowza! ❤️
 
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