Yesterday, William, Tilly, Mummy, Andy and I went out to London for this secret MY BIRTHDAY thing…
Oh yeah, I’m going to be eight in 5 days! (Unfortunately, Mummy hasn’t published the ‘About Me – I’m Seven’ thing, so it’ll be straight on to eight!) I am really excited! My birthday won’t be a proper party, but it’ll still be fun – Nanny will come round, I can play and open my presents and we’ll all have cake and – TASTY! Sorry, I just love the idea of cake…
Anyway, before we went to the surprise place (codename SOHO) we went to a museum and did a backpack tour thing. Inside the backpack there was a few bags. We had to go and find these certain things and places in the museum, and then we’d fish things out of the bags – like feather pens and things. I had a go at writing mirror-way with the pen, so it looks right in the mirror, but wrong on the paper. Apperently, Leonardo De Vinci used the amazing language, and we saw his exact notebook and pen!
We went to find the first question – a huge picture (I can’t remember the name of it…). We had to find which our favourite costume was, and how comfy and uncomfy the costumes would be. They were hunting, to me, killing boar and bear and screaming, “Get this one! He hasn’t got a good sense of smell! Oh no, this one; he hasn’t got any jaws!” and that kind of thing. You couldn’t really see that, it just looked like a big crowd and animals wondering about and the people had daggers and swords and axes. (I can concoct some strange stories. I can teach you, if you like. Some day, look at the bar where you put all the Basic Pages. Some day, I’ll remember, and then I’ll make a ‘Being Crazy’ Basic Page. It might not be that exact title, but if there’s an extra Basic Page, click on it.)
After the museum, we went to a place called Soho (Soho was the codename of the place). Then we went inside the….THEATRE!
It wasn’t to watch Frozen…it wasn’t a special play…it was a stand-up Comedy Show!
There was a Professional Comedian, two little boys (one fifteen, one eleven), the compair (he was good) and two ladies. The ladies came first. I brought Mummy up onto the stage – I did this by saying that she liked wine a lot, which she does 😉 Then Andy was brought up…the ladies said they thought they saw Harry Styles, and so they brought the ‘Harry-Styles-looking-Andy’ onto the stage…
I told a joke on stage – what do you call a fish with no is/eyes?
I don’t know, Lavinia. What do you call a fish with no is/eyes?
A fsh! Hee hee! Oh – what do you call a fish with no eyes?
I have no clue whatsoever, Lavinia, my sweet pea.
No eye-deer! Right, let’s get on with the thingy-ma-bobby. Don’t call me sweet pea, Mrs. Very Marmalade.
Okay, dearie.
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I’m bored – utterly bored! Well, assuming that you’ve had enough listening to my and Mrs. Very Marmalade’s quarrel, let us get ready with the actual thing. Okay. After ‘Harry-Styles-Looking-Andy’ was brought up onto the stage, these other boys came up. There was the eleven-year-old, talking about Rugby. He said someone had given the ball to him, and he saw what the others were doing and copied. Next minute he was thrown to the muddy, grassy, wormy and horrid floor. Next minute he was being shouted at – so they never passed the ball to him again! I was quite impressed, as he was only from the learning class, but I wouldn’t put him in as the best. If at the end we could vote who was best and the best out of all the votes won a prize, I’d put guitar-man in, but if I had two I’d probably give the other vote to the 11-year-old.
This other guitarist kind-of-comedian said something very funny. It must be hard being a centipede is that every time you sing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, because you’d have to go ‘Head, shoulders, knees and knees and knees and knees and toes and toes and toes’ over and over again. He also sang a short song. “I paid my cleaner…” then he waited…. “to kill my cat…. And the next song is My Car Runs on Caterpillar Sick,” just like that.
Then we left the theatre and went to go to the shops. Because it’s Christmas, the Christmas lights were everywhere, shaped in baubles and Christmas trees and some were arches we had to walk through.
We also saw these people making a Christmassy song, and William and I danced about, but Tilly was too shy to for some unknown reason.
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Time passed and we went to the pub for food and drink. Tilly had orange juice with a slice of orange, William had apple juice with a slice of lime (tasty lime) and I had a Happy Monkey smoothie – banana and strawberry smoothie. The monkey on the front looked like a screaming monkey who was miserable and scared. 😉 I wanted a lentil roast, but they didn’t have any, so instead I had sausages and mash and for pudding chocolate brownies and ice-cream.
We got home at 10 and I was FREEZING (literally freezing).