Boots, umbrella, keys in pocket, telephone and wallet in bag and on the dot of 11.45am she was out of the house and walked out into the most disgusting weather.. cold, wet and extremely windy, ugh.
She raised the umbrella and scurried up Yeoman's Row into the Brompton Road, across the road and walked as fast as she could to the museum.
To find Jane had also just arrived in the front entrance.
They both shook themselves like dogs, grinned at each other in the way that you do when you know you're in for a treat and made their way up to the Friends Room.
They presented their membership cards and said to the manager that they were there for lunch and were taken to a corner banquette. A menu was presented by a smiley waitress and they were off!
It promised to be a lovely time, for these two new friends, who had met in the funniest of ways, can talk for London as they share similar interests and likes and dislikes!
Nice food.. yum! Jane had a warm salad with anchovies and she had a pork chop with baked apple served on a bed of spring greens.. slurp!
Having split the bill, they went off downstairs to the new wing of the museum to see the Dior exhibition.
Beautiful but her only criticism was there weren't actually that many outfits that had been made in the late 40's and 50's.
But then a lot of people don't choose to lend valuable clothes to exhibitions, she herself is guilty of this as she didn't lend clothes to the Cristobal Balenciaga exhibition which was held at the V&A.
And this is why.. for thirty years ago she was given a beautiful long painted silk coat and Fortuny style pleated dress by two men for whom she did a lot of modeling.
Their working names were Ian and Marcel and they did breathtakingly beautiful work. She lent the dress and coat to their exhibition at the V&A and never got them back, they're somewhere in the archives of the museum.. not on show.
It was her fault, she didn't insist upon a mass of paperwork or a date upon when the clothes would be returned, it taught her a lesson.
But go, for although there aren't that many clothes from Monsieur Dior's era, there are lots and lots of clothes dating from the era of Vyes Saint Laurent right through to the present day creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
There's one red wool coat which dates from the 50's which she loved. It is beautiful.. quite, quite beautiful.
Today, so far, it is dry and as she has to do a run to the market for fresh and powdered ginger we are off but will be back later to tell you about the extraordinary information about frozen broccoli and mustard powder.
No, she is not gardening in this weather for the ground is soaking wet and you don't do it any favours by treading on it as it will compact it, besides the fact that Storm Erik is blowing fit to bust with horrendous winds.
But the weather forecast for the latter part of next week is positively warm and sunny so we'll be full of chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 9th, 2019.
She raised the umbrella and scurried up Yeoman's Row into the Brompton Road, across the road and walked as fast as she could to the museum.
To find Jane had also just arrived in the front entrance.
They both shook themselves like dogs, grinned at each other in the way that you do when you know you're in for a treat and made their way up to the Friends Room.
They presented their membership cards and said to the manager that they were there for lunch and were taken to a corner banquette. A menu was presented by a smiley waitress and they were off!
It promised to be a lovely time, for these two new friends, who had met in the funniest of ways, can talk for London as they share similar interests and likes and dislikes!
Nice food.. yum! Jane had a warm salad with anchovies and she had a pork chop with baked apple served on a bed of spring greens.. slurp!
Having split the bill, they went off downstairs to the new wing of the museum to see the Dior exhibition.
Beautiful but her only criticism was there weren't actually that many outfits that had been made in the late 40's and 50's.
But then a lot of people don't choose to lend valuable clothes to exhibitions, she herself is guilty of this as she didn't lend clothes to the Cristobal Balenciaga exhibition which was held at the V&A.
And this is why.. for thirty years ago she was given a beautiful long painted silk coat and Fortuny style pleated dress by two men for whom she did a lot of modeling.
Their working names were Ian and Marcel and they did breathtakingly beautiful work. She lent the dress and coat to their exhibition at the V&A and never got them back, they're somewhere in the archives of the museum.. not on show.
It was her fault, she didn't insist upon a mass of paperwork or a date upon when the clothes would be returned, it taught her a lesson.
But go, for although there aren't that many clothes from Monsieur Dior's era, there are lots and lots of clothes dating from the era of Vyes Saint Laurent right through to the present day creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
There's one red wool coat which dates from the 50's which she loved. It is beautiful.. quite, quite beautiful.
Today, so far, it is dry and as she has to do a run to the market for fresh and powdered ginger we are off but will be back later to tell you about the extraordinary information about frozen broccoli and mustard powder.
No, she is not gardening in this weather for the ground is soaking wet and you don't do it any favours by treading on it as it will compact it, besides the fact that Storm Erik is blowing fit to bust with horrendous winds.
But the weather forecast for the latter part of next week is positively warm and sunny so we'll be full of chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 9th, 2019.
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