Today was a very relaxing day for us. We are staying with Alison in Clapham and woke up to a beautiful sunny (yes there is sun in england) day! We had tea and toast in the back garden and elsie had to put on a sunhat


We decided to soak up the sun and head down to the park via clapham’s main road – here we are in front of a very popular mommy hangout.

After a coffee and a quiche Michael pointed us towards the park and gave us some instructions to find a pub (because clearly our whole vacation is based around eating!!). Off we went.

The park was filled with pasty white folk trying to get a bit of sun without getting burned.


Can you believe Elsie’s leg is in the sun – I don’t think Dad saw that.


We found the pub and had a small lunch – just as the food arrived Elsie decided she also had to have lunch, so another first happened … breastfeeding in a pub (fortunately we were outside and Elsie was under a shawl so not too much trauma).

As soon as lunch was done Elsie did some major business that required and impromptu pants change on the grass – fortunately Mark is superman and can change pants faster than a speeding bullet.


After a long walk we arrived back to alisons where michael and alison were prepping for the dinner party (which we didn’t take photos of – shoot!). We had Patsy, Antony, Jonathan (mark’s cousin) and Tamar (Jonathan’s lovely lady friend), and Alison’s brother Johnny and his wife plum. It was a yummy dinner.

Tomorrow we are heading to Dorset (alison’s country home) and will be without internet connection so we will post next when we get to heathrow on Friday.

Elsie is doing great – I even caught this little smile today … (she’s chubbin’ up!!)