It’s very easy to bash the great city of London. To be fair, there’s quite a lot to bash if you’re that way inclined – it can be dirty, smelly, expensive and sometimes, it’s so far up its own trendy backside, you can actually taste pavement. Occasionally though, you go out, you have a great night, [...]
Tag Archives: Friends
Tiny Venues & Interesting Loos
Posted in Food, London, Love, Pictures, Review, Style Also tagged Awesome!, Best Of British, Comedy, Customer Service, Eating, Food, Images, Joy, London, People Watching, Things That Make You Go Mmm 3 Comments
Banjos, Ballet, Black Yoghurt and Bloggers
I was very much the culture vulture this past week, darlings, as I took in, among others, some comedy, blogging bonding time and the very different delights of grown men plucking strings as well as in codpieces and flesh-coloured tights. Ooo er, missus! My palpitations have only just calmed down…
Posted in Blog, Culture, London, Music Also tagged Ballet, Banjo, Blogging, Comedy, Dylan Moran, Music, Royal Opera House, Steve Martin, The Sleeping Beauty 3 Comments
In Which YorubaGirl Ventures South
About a month ago, I acquired a new housemate, a lady of German extraction, who bakes like a dream and answers to the name of T. It’s her first time living in England, and as she now lives with three fairly experienced Londoners, she’s very keen to learn about and experience London. Well, a little bit [...]
Posted in Identity, London, Travel Also tagged Bitter Rivalries, I Love north London, London, north London, North vs. South, south London 4 Comments
Baby, It's You
I spent the weekend in Bournemouth, a seaside town I lazed many a sunny afternoon in, back when I attended the esteemed media school at the university. I was staying with two great friends, MamaS, PapaL and their daughter, BabyE. It was E’s first birthday, that magical day nobody ever remembers though woe betide any [...]
YorubaGirl's Reunion
O hai! So you know I attended a high school reunion in July, right? Let me tell you of it. My evening started out bumpy – my driver had been a victim of one of Lagos’s famed ‘Last Chance’ gangs the night before. What they do is, they half-fill a regular looking public transport bus, [...]
1776 And All That
Thanks to a 1996 summer blockbuster starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, lots of people have come to believe that the Fourth of July celebrations centre around an angry, destructive alien race’s desire to wipe out human civilisation. Not so, movie fans. It’s when America celebrates her independence from the Kingdom of Great [...]
Posted in America, London Also tagged 4th Of July, America, Food, Independence Day, London, USA 4 Comments
Lashings And Lashings Of Ginger Beer!
Last week, I went to Marks and Spencer to grab a sandwich for lunch. As I made my way to the till, clutching my brie, cranberry and grape sarnie, I spotted something that made my heart sing. On the shelf above the sandwiches, sat a green can of fizzy pop. Not just any old can [...]
Posted in Books, Education, Food, Literature, Nigeria Also tagged Africa, Boarding School, Enid Blyton, Literary Food, Malory Towers, Midnight Feast, Novel, Writing 8 Comments
YorubaGirl + Obalende Suya = UNALLOYED JOY
I haven’t been to Nigeria since 1998, so from time to time, I get nostalgic and seek to suround myself with Nigerian things. For example, my YouTube viewing history is mostly full of items like old Nigerian TV commercials (Super Visco Static, anyone?) and the opening credits to the shows of my youth – Ripples, Checkmate, [...]
Simple Pleasures #57 – Dinner with A Friend
Today, I did something I haven’t done in a long, long time. I had a leisurely home-cooked dinner with a friend, and it was just splendid. There was a time in the late 90s, and early 00s, when it was fashionable to hold dinner parties – think acid jazz, Dido or Jamiroquai on the stereo, [...]
