Why I don't seem to be studying

Three Days Ago
If you really want to impress a girl and you're feeling a bit generous, I'd thoroughly recommend you take her/drag her/carry her kicking and screaming into Maggiore's.

A few weeks ago, in a fit of desperation and an 'all is lost' moment, I cynically told Lionel that I'd take him out for an expensive meal if everything turned out alright in the end. And they did. So Lionel got a free lunch. And it was our anniversary anyway, but things like that don't really matter.

So we went into Maggiore's and had the best duck ever. I also had a rabbit's leg as a starter and tried not to think of poor legless rabbits watching their limbs being roasted and laid in balsamic vinegar, which was quite easy to forget once you dig into the sweet sweet meat! Rabbit tastes just like chicken. And how timely, seeing that bird flu just hit the UK.

The best part of the restaurant though has to be its awesomely romantic conservatory. I mean, check out the dining experience and click on view interior for a 360 degrees span. I'd go again, if I can earn enough money from tour guiding next year.



Two Days Ago

So, Hugo thought the best way to turn 23 (without resorting to drunken chaos) was to sit in a park surrounded by lots of food. Oh, and friends.

And there was ALOT of food, seriously!

Even my tiramisu cake made an appearance. With plenty of rum in it.

And here's proof that people actually like it. Even if it was made absent-mindedly while watching House and Grey's Anatomy. But I didn't mention that to most people.

The weather started out really nice, nice enough for cam-whoring.
That's Me, Vidu and Menaka.

And all sorts of fuzzy creatures started appearing, like this inquisitive squirrel and lovely yellow labrador that wanted pizza. I think even a maltese bounded by

One of Hugo's friends tried to catch the squirrel. Didn't work out, did it?

Then this tractor, that had been nonchalently trimming the grass around us
started circling us like a shark.

Anyway it was getting really chilly, so we packed up,
but not before Andy started a camera fight

And Vidu (the first Sri Lankan eskimo) nearly died of hypothermia

And with that, Hugo turned 23... and has an uncanny sense of knowing when a camera is pointed at him, at all times!!