Thanks for all your suggestions - although to do any more I think we could have done with a week there! lol
Well, what a fab weekend! We got there on Friday lunchtime and booked into a fab hotel WITH parking! Walked to London Eye did the river cruise and then the big wheel itself which was amazing!
Kids found the amusement arcade next to Mackie D's which I have to admit was good fun! Went to a fab fish restaurant for dinner with the offer tickets we got with the eye and cruise booking.
Saturday was a shopping day in Regent Street and Oxford Street and lunch at Beni Hanas - the best bit of all! A Japanese chef cooked our lunch at our table - he was such a comedian! An absolute must for a different sort of lunchtime entertainment.
Whilst the boys went off for time to explore on their own - Hamleys, Apple shop etc, I decided to have my hair cut in a "top London salon" thought it would be a great treat.................. oh how wrong I was :cry:
I wanted a different style as my hair has been quite long for some years I thought a new style for the new year would be good - but the one thing I didn't want was a bob and made this very clear from the start - I had one years ago and it didn't suit me.
The stylist had other ideas - he said he would give me the mini make over of my life, sat me down with a glass of wine then asked me what I thought of the lady's hair to my left..... it was a mix of long and short, very dull looking and roots slightly showing through - looked like it could do with a good style and needed a conditioning treatment, I said I didn't like it and had to give him my reasons why............... hmmm BAD thing to say! He was so proud of his newly styled client who just happened to be a fashion editor for a magazine!!! ooops
well he did ask! lol
It all went down hill from there...... he then started to chop into my long hair and said a bob would look good on me - and cut a line across the nape of my neck and asked me if I was loving my new look yet?????!!!!! He then asked me for marks out of 10 for the cut so far...... at best I thought it may be worth a 3 but didn't say, I think the look of suprise was enough - then he got stroppy as there is no way I could comment or say I liked it when he hadn't finished it yet......... "then don't ask me to give you marks out of 10 for something you haven't finished yet!" I said to him.
That was it - he threw his scissors down, went off into a major rage and said how he is hairdresser to lots of important people and has been doing his job for 8 years and NO ONE had ever disliked his work!!!! He then refused to continue and got another stylist to take over! Little did he realise that the salon manager was sat right behind him and overheard everything that went on! I was taken down stairs, tidied up by the very embarassed salon manager and shipped out with lots of apologies and a free haircut! Needless to say I won't be returning there again!
I met up with Stu and the boys again and did the tour round China town and then went to see Monty Pythons Spamalot which was fab. Sunday we did the obligitory tour round Harrods and had a few hours in the Science museum and braved the atrocious weather all the way back down the M4 totally exhausted and needing a new pair of feet!
It was a great weekend and I am starting to get used to life without hair! lol It'll grow back...............in time!!!!! :lol:
Mandy x
