Three Crowns - Big Thumbs Up

A pretty quiet week with not a whole lot happening, followed by a good relaxing weekend. Considering what the plans are for the next couple of weekends, this was just the ticket.

Caught up with Row for a few afterwork drinks during the week, which ended up including dinner and then later catching Mark as well. The Counting House was the venue, which was originally just that. Incredibly old and with the historical plaque on the wall too. A really nice old place with a good cruisey after work atmosphere. They even allowed me to secure the bike to the front of the building as well.

Work is, well, it's work... It pays the bills (not that we've received any yet!) but it could do better, and the feet are getting a little itchy on this one as it's just not stimulating enough. One thing that it did do during the week will remain to be seen if it's worthwhile. The guy who sits opposite me had an interesting proposition for me. His girlfriend works for a very upmarket and exclusive matchmaking company - for millionaires and extremely successful individuals (ie; not me), but she needed to complete her quota of new database entrants by the end of this week, so he put the idea forward for me to be that last person she needed. Within a half hour of saying 'okay', she was on the phone interviewing me. One email and confidentiality agreement signed, as well as a dodgy pic on a mobile phone camera, and her quota is done.

I did have to laugh. At least if anything comes of it, I know that if they end up using me, then it won't be for my money or support like someone else did!!

Thursday and Friday nights both kicked off with the work crew and a few pints in the pub watching the Euro's (European Football Championships) and a couple of 'rounds of golf'.

The weekend landed with some fantastic weather - plenty of sunshine and some puffy white clouds. The morning kicked off with the arrival of a parcel containing some Canadian items, so Thanks Mum n Dad!!

Not long after, I met Sue at the Three Crowns on Stoke-Newington Church St, which I mentioned in an earlier post. I still haven't got the timing sussed for getting around to some places yet, so I was rather early. No matter - a pint and the paper on the couch under the skylight with some very cruisey 'café del mar' styled music, and I think I've just discovered a great hangout for quiet weekend mornings/arvos! Both a pub and a restaurant, this place was great - check the pics. So before Sue arrived, I went through the Guardian's top hidden gems of Europe in their travel section, and there's quite a few that I'll be looking to tick off that list!!

We ended up having lunch there and chatting away for most of the arvo with a few pints. The Apple, Cinnamon and Coconut Crumble with vanilla sauce is superb too!!

I even have a new friend from behind the bar now who's from Sardinia (near Corsica) and teaches film production. She was most interested in my plans for a short film that I shelved a few years back, so I may be resurrecting that.

Time to head into Liverpool St station and meet up with Dresch (a recent arrival from Melbourne and fellow Spurs fan) to go watch that evenings Euro matches in a nearby pub - The White Hart. Several more pints between the three of us followed by dinner til the games ended and the pub eventually closed.

Sunday has since been a relaxing day reading in the sun, some domestic chores and generally being a chilled out day. Hard to do much else considering the neighbours down the road had some massive party going til around 4am the night before... Watched 28 Weeks Later tonight. Set in London and it's quite something to watch a movie when you've been in nearly all the places that are shown. Even quite funny when you know the distances the group in the movie travel in the supposed time span that they did it in!

Enjoy your week!