No one can ever say I didn't sing

London weekends are finally starting to feel like regular days in the city. Saturday was spent roaming the local supermarket, stocking up on all sorts of odds and ends. With the car on the road we're able to transport everything home with ease. As a result the shopping trolley seems more and more heavily laiden.

Saturday night we caught a hilarious show in town called Glorious! It's a biographical comedy about the life of Florence Foster Jenkins (b.1868 - d.1944), known infamously as the "the first lady of the sliding scale." She was a well-off, slightly eccentric, society woman from Philadelphia who created singing career for herself, despite having little sense of pitch or rhythm and being barely able sustain a note. Ms. Jenkins was once quoted responding to her critics by simply stating that, "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing." Maureen Lipmann (above) performed the lead role brilliantly, singing out of tune with great skill and conviction, generating more than one good belly laugh. All in all a fun evening.

During our walk to the tube station afterwards we wandered past the SANZA store. It sells all manner of goodies for Australian, South African and Kiwi expats seeking a taste of home. Garry spied some tempting chocolate Moro bars in the window so I think we'll be back during opening hours. I'll be looking for Sanitarium Marmite. Learn more here: www.sanza.co.uk

Sunday we caught up for lunch with friend before hitting the stores on Oxford street. We found a coffee table that we both liked in John Lewis (their Tokyo range). Even better, the shop assistant found one in stock previously returned to have some minor damage repaired. It was marked down almost 50%. We agreed to take it, after being given the option to return it if we weren't satisfied with its condition. It arrives on Wednesday. The store even offered to deliver free of charge. What a bargain!

Next weekend we're having a group of friends over for a roast dinner. It's become an unofficial house-warming now that we've pretty much got the flat in order. The table will be here just in time.