Monthly Archives: April 2011

Duck and Free B&J Ice Cream

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Sandra and I met up for a Crispy Duck date tonight … cute fishies …

.. I didn’t think we’d ordered that much to eat over dinner until I went to go and claim a free Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and was halfway through it before starting to feel super full. Sandra was on a no dessert plan for Lent she handed me her ice cream too! It was a real struggle to get through them both!

Every year B&J have this Free Cone Day. It’s a great marketing ploy to raise their profile. The odd thing is that they don’t even limit how many cones you can have. I was speaking to two people in line and one of them had been moving through the queue since 3pm and when I was speaking to him was currently waiting for this 16th cone! The other girl was on her 9th! Crazy what people would do for free foods!

Spring Day at Southbank and the Tate Modern

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I’m absolutely delighting in this lovely weather we are having at the moment. I met Nate, Caro, Gaspar and Cesar (he was sleeping most of it) for brunch at Giraffe at Southbank before taking a long stroll all the way to the Tate Modern to check out Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds.

Shame the Seeds are now cordoned off from the public (actually it was cordoned off within 48 hours!) It used to be open but too many people were stealing the little Seeds (apparently a single seed sold for £28 on ebay) and I also read somewhere the porcelain replicas were slightly poisonous. It was an impressive sea of seeds to behold!

This is something you also don’t see everyday, one of the London Eye capsules being towed around on the back of a boat!

Circolombia: Urban

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I’ve always wanted to go to the Roundhouse to see something so when Circolombia came up it seemed like the perfect show to showcase the benefits of a venue like the Roundhouse. The story of Circolombia Urban is a very touching one and the show’s very essence is interwoven by this story. The performers are from Circo Para Todos (Circus For All) a circus school set up in Colombia for disadvantaged young people, young people who would otherwise be likely to be in a gang or other negative situation. The show is circus but told through the young performers eye – what they saw/see as poverty-stricken youth.

The circus tricks themselves were nothing too unusual or different but when taken together with the atmosphere it made for touching and high impact performance. The soundtrack was pretty awesome – dance, hip hop, reggae and there was live signing throughout as well. It could have done with some polish – but, as Craig pointed out, the rawness of the show gave it an element of danger which made it a little bit more exciting. Every trick we were on the edge of our seats thinking, will they fall, will they finish the trick?!

Some of the acts which I really enjoyed were the skipping ropes, the tightropes (felt a bit for the males in the performance as the male performers bounced up and down on their crotch (yikes), and an almost ballet-type piece. It was all so raw, so sexual almost!

Last Tuesday Society’s Orphanage Masked Ball

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Had no idea what to expect from this masked ball – it was certainly an odd evening! I thought it was going to be something similar to TG but it really wasn’t the same at all. Though rather oddly we did recognise this one guy that we saw at TG – I remember him as he kept brushing up behind me when we were on the dancefloor at TG … and he was memorable as he was naked but for a chain on his … member. But anyways ….

My first surprise of the night was when we were in the toilets at the start of the evening changing into our outfits. I was bent over putting my shoes and the next moment I’m eye level with a very naked girl!! We were later to realise who they were.

The actual evening started out ordinarily enough with waltzing lessons. We were late arriving so didn’t participate but watching everyone I was pretty amazed at the effort people had gone into for their outfits – sure we had the mask going on, but many other people had also gone to the effort to wear period costumes. Next up was a Punch and Judy puppet show. What?? A bit more adult than what would be put on for the kids but a very odd thing to have at a club? Even weirder was the fact that it was a very popular event and the room was packed out!

The venue that tonight’s ball was held in was very small and intimate. One of the rooms had these three dancer poles and we saw aforementioned naked people get up and dance around the pole (there were three girls two guys I think.) Don’t get me wrong, apart from these five and our friend from TG, everyone else had clothes on. At some stage of the night they actually started to come around and serve us food (cheese and other decadent stuffs) on platters. Very strange! I think there was supposed to be some sort of Feast Table – where these people should have laid down and then, if you wanted to, you could eat off them or whatever but perhaps the venue was too small for that. Or maybe we left too early before they’d set it up?

Oh there was a chocolate fountain … would have been more interesting if the fountain was on naked people. Heh heh.