A whinging POM

So I'm going to start off with a whinge, like the POMs do so well, and then end on a happy note. I promise. So there is a little problem that has been mounting up and tonight it reached an all time high. Dog poo, it is a massive issue. I was blaming it on have the RSPCA hospital at the end of the street and now I can't blame it on the shelter anymore. It is the rude people that walk their dog in the street. So Sunday after a pretty big night we went to Richmond for a walk around the shops and while waiting for the bus I stood in a massive pile of poo. Not just one poo but three poo's all mushed together. It was gross. How can someone walk their dog and let it go to the toilet on the middle of the foot path and just leave it there, right at the bus stop to let nice, friendly people like me step in poo. Tonight topped it off after getting home from work at 8pm I counted and avoided 20 separate dog poos over the space of 1 kilometre. It was like hop scotch the whole way along. Quite literally this is a rubbish situation. I'm thinking of putting signs up on every tree.

So on a happier note, Alex and his girlfriend came to visit last week. It was so good to see them. I took two days off work to be a brilliant tour guide. When Em and Sam were visiting we never walked as much. On Tuesday we rushed into town to watch the Changing of the Guards. After all my visits to London I had never experienced this spectacle. It was pretty cool, and the tourists really loved it. The only weird thing that I couldn't really explain was why they played 'All you need is Love'. I was under the assumption that the marching band would play marching songs. A few other odd songs were played. Overall it was really good, and will definitely being taking Nan and Pop and all the rest of visitors.

After watching the marching bands we were off to Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and the National Portrait Gallery. It was great to have Alex over as he loves art as much as me. So he was completely up for galleries.

On our second day of the London tour we headed to Richmond in search of deer. This video may have encouraged the search for trying to find deer, Jesus Christ - Richmond Park . So we ventured out to Richmond and went on a lovely walk and came across a few squirrels. We almost gave up on trying to find the deer. We saw a few horses and asked a few dog walkers whether they had seen any deer. This lovely fellow told us that if we walked over this ridge and into the woods we could see them and he wasn't wrong. We came across at least 50 deer.

After the Richmond we jumped on a bus and train and within an about 45 mins to an hour we were at Tower Bridge meeting Benny for lunch at Borough Markets. Alex spent up big on homewares for his house in Emerald. We went to the Tate Modern and I had a little art lesson on the modernists. The sunset was gorgeous at the end of the day so we walked across the Millennium Bridge to St Pauls Cathedral.

Sarah and Alex left on Friday night and we had one last dinner with them at Heathrow Airport. I think we might just become regulars at the pub there.

We had a nice weekend. We celebrated our friend's birthday on Saturday night and had a sticky beak at their new place. On Monday Tara Border came to stay for two nights. She left today. It was so nice seeing her after many, many years. The rest of the week is horrible on the work front. Tomorrow I have a sewing lesson as it was included in my  Christmas present that Benny gave me.

It is 5 weeks today until we fly back home.