Vegans, babysitting and a tall tower

On Saturday we thought we'd go to a Vegan fair just for a look but got put off by the L5 entry fee. Personally I thought they had their marketing screwed up. If we wanted bands we could go to Glastonbury so perhaps they should have pared things back to just the stalls and had a gold-coin donation for entry. As it was you got a free concert by sitting on the other side of the docks in the sun!

We just wandered around for a bit and J did some shopping. She also had her hair trimmed but avoided the L89 hairdressers, in favour of some a lot cheaper. I wonder how much the phone sanitisers charge? We bought a Guide to the Historic Harbour which has proved to be very interesting. It says our apartment building was built in 1893-4 as a granary, and gives heaps of detail of the surrounding area. We also got some prints of photos taken around the turn of the century that show the building and surrounds. Fascinating.

That night we babysat M for C&M who had a dinner party to go to. We spent half the night fighting over the remote as it was the first time we'd had TV for weeks. The fight was more entertaining than the programmes by far. It was a different view of the central city at 1:20 when we came home. Lots of drunk young people around. Hen and Stag parties tend to have themes quite often, some even with printed T-shirts. There were a few stragglers from these to be seen.

Today J went shopping again, stung by my blog comments about not showing her legs. Her solution was to buy trousers, so I'm not quite sure how that works. It has been very warm and muggy but I think that's about to change in the next few days.

We wandered up to the John Cabot Tower which overlooks the city from a hill not far from the city centre. It was built in 1897 to commemorate his voyage to America and has a great view over the city that prospered on trade with that continent. From there we browsed in a few book shops before heading home again. It's a tough life...