Scattered Strawberry Summer

My new ring, looooove it.
We're dog sitting for a few days. Now we can play "home" in a big house with front and back garden, with unlimited broadband and Sky. Nice.

My and my BF went to see Jimmy Carr live at the Congress theatre yesterday, so this is a sort of a review, which is bound to be subjective as he is my favourite comedian.

Well, first of all, I had a great time! I laughed a lot. Jimmy is mostly one-liner comedian which is great cause you get a lot of jokes in a short time. So I guess, good value for money :)) However, he's not to everyone's taste, he's jokes can be quite offensive. But I love him, he can make a joke about everything, EVERYTHING.I love that he is anything but PC.

At the end of the show, he tested our limits with increasingly offensive jokes. We still laughed and felt ashamed that we found it funny.

We had great seats, in 5th row, quite near. We  were a bit afraid he will ask us something or whatever. He does talk to audience a lot, but you know, it's funny when he's mocking others, but when it's you.. :))  If I could come up with a really good come back quick enough, I wouldn't mind it, but I know I wouldn't.
I still prefer when he's telling jokes rather than engaging with the audience as it gets boring quite soon.

He did some regional accents that he hadn't done before. However, I couldn't understand some of it. That is the reason I'm never gonna see John Bishop live - I can't understand his scouse accent, I need subtitles!

Anyway, there were a few old jokes, some, I think, were from his facebook/twitter page, yeah I follow him, he post a few jokes every day.

My BF also thoroughly enjoyed it and he said it was definitely worth £25. Pretty cheap for a first class comedian! Although, I'm surprised that he goes to places like Hastings or Eastbourne. But hey, good for me that I don't have to go another town to see him.

I'd also like to see Michael McIntyre some day. He's more family-friendly comedian , mostly focuses on observational comedy, he's very good, makes me laugh so hard. Another comedian on my wishlist is Tim Minchin, I wanted to see him last year but tickets I could afford were sold out.  Talking about comedy, I'd love to be in the audience in Miranda's filming. That would be soooooo cool.

I'm preparing for our trip to Paris. Doing research what to see and  to do and other stuff. 


Some things  we plan to do:

• to have a picnic in front of the Eiffel tower
• to have creme brulee named after Amelie at Café des Deux Moulins & explore Montmartre& buy souvenirs there 
• A walk a long St Martin's canal
• browsing Porte de Vanves Flea Market
• a short visit to Louvre
• a longer visit to museum d'Orsay (They have a big collection of impressionists' works). Also, I read there is a nice view of Paris on the top of museum.
• try the French onion soup
• walk randomly in the city
• maybe meet up with my BF's cousin who lives somewhere near Paris.
• visit some of the beautiful parks and gardens in Paris
• try loads of stuff in the bakeries

I'm not sure if we're gonna go up the Eiffel tower again- I have quite strong fear of heights, especially when the stairs there are all see-through and I do not feel safe there.


I'm still searching for other interesting & quirky places to visit. We already visited the most famous sights already and we're not gonna revisit most of them.


and I've got this blue floral bag to carry water, food and guidebooks :)