Primark, Camden, dippy eggs and BBQ's

This last week has been lovely, one of my best friends made the long old journey up to London to stay with me for a week.
After planning it in November I was pretty sure it was never going to come around, but it did!...yay! :)
The week started with being rudely woken by my alarm clock at 4:30 so I could go and meet her at Paddington. (Don't worry it was worth it!) I hadn't actually seen her since September because of the distance and cost of getting to/from London to Scilly. But after massive hugs at the train station everything clicked back into place perfectly. I think that's when you know you have a true friend, someone that you don't need to speak to every day, week or even month but that when you see each other again it's like that time apart never happened!...that's what we have, and I'm incredibly lucky!
For our first full day in London we decided to hit Kingston to do some shopping and catch up over tea. However it all went a bit wrong when we went to Primark, we both tried clothes on and unfortunately my friend left her bag in the changing room for about 2 minutes and some disgusting scum riffled through and stole her phone, camera and money! The security guards in Primark were less than helpful and I was left with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach for the rest of the day, while feeling completely responsible. Primark you are crap! Vodafone stuff, police lady and lovely boyfriend and housemates you are all amazing and the day would of been impossible without you!
Primark and scummy girls- 0
Vodafone staff, police lady, boyfriend, and housemates- 1
After the rather eventful first day I'm pleased to say it did get much better! We decided we wanted to go Camden market for the afternoon, and after a couple of hours freezing our t**s off we left with some good purchases, and even managed to get the price down.
The next couple of days were nice and chilled out, lots of chatting, gossiping, catching up and laughing. (I sure miss female company living with 4 guys!)
Easter Sunday was spent napping after going out the night before and not sleeping, eating dippy eggs with homemade bread soldiers (cooked to perfection, even if I do say so myself!- I'm such a good housemate!!) and watching films in our pjs! Our planned BBQ went a little wrong when we all piled into the car, took the drive to tesco and realised that it was closed, along with every other food shop we could think of. But fear not...we did not starve! Nando's take away well and truly saved the day! :)
Yesterday was our last full day in London together so we booked into Jamie's Italian for lunch as a treat...and a treat it was! I've just been given a gold card so when we arrived we were given free Parma ham to nibble on while we browsed the menu...the food was lovely! My friend had the salmon which smelled and looked amazing and I had ricotta and mushroom stuffed ravioli...yum! We also wondered around Camden before we ate, watching street performers, meeting pepper pig (highlight of my day!) and taking photos of the giant eggs that were part of an Easter egg hunt around the whole of Covent garden.
We then hopped on a train (the wrong one...oops! Maybe I'm not so "London" after all!) and came home to a BBQ cooked by my Lovely Boyfriend and friends. Who cares that it was only 3 degrees outside! It was perfect, and a lovely end to a week with my friend...actually I lie, that's not it...we then decided to play some drinking games, being a person who doesn't usually drink it didn't go too well for me! I was far too drunk and had everyone laughing at just how much of a light weight I am (it really has to be seen to be believed!) everyone else was pretty sober and doing well at the being awake thing. I however found it a struggle and took a little nap on the sofa, only to be woken up by a different friend breaking a chair...we're a lovely bunch aren't we!?
So now after about 4 hours sleep I'm making the lovely 6 hour train journey down to Penzance ready to go to Scilly tomorrow. Pretty sure if I fall asleep I'll never wake up...but maybe...just...a...little...nap...ZZZzzzz