I never know with my Sundays whether to fill it completely so that I will forget that Monday is just around the corner or whether to take the slow and easy approach. Today I thought I would kind of go in between starting with brunch with Rita at Spitafields Market. Yes we did end up at a chain restaurant – Giraffe – but I simply can’t resist their English Breakfast. Mmmm … soo very good. I think it’s the potato wedges which have me.

After brunch we took a slow stroll through the market with Rita buying some incredibly cute baby clothes and then we wandered into some sort of posh tea store where I saw these:

Yes – that’s right £17 for a paper cup holder. Yes a true bargain. They are hand-made and everything!

And then a sight that fills me with pleasure – a before and after shot of the roasting pig carcass!

To work off our brunch (though to be honest we’d walked quite a bit around the markets) we headed to Rita’s for a game of tennis and then when we didn’t burn enough energy doing that I decided to see if I could borrow one of the boy’s basketballs, since they weren’t using it, so that we could throw some hoops. I wasn’t even planning on doing any sort of running – my kind of basketball these days consists of playing those arcade games where you sink hoop after hoop of balls! – however the boys had other plans and challenged us to a game of pick-up instead! I was actually flattered they thought we could actually give them a work out of sorts. But we did!

Turns out one of the boys was only just learning to play. I can report, no boast, that we kicked butt! Personally I think they were just a bit too polite to hussle us physically but we had no problems trying to intimidate them ourselves and that meant steal after steal and free rides to the basket. It was quite a work out!