This summer had flown by, and it has been one where I have not had many breaks nor been out too much when compared to previous years. The weather was beautiful this year with warm temperatures and a lot of sun, and I enjoyed sitting outside and reading as well as doing my walks, listening to audio books, and attending the fitness classes. I unfortunately had an injury on my foot during the summer, and this prevented me from doing a lot of walking later in the summer. Below are some of the activities that I did this summer that I have not yet blogged.
Back in June, I got to go to a launch party through work to celebrate the launch of the project that I am on. I took photographs outside the office building at Old Street.
We were then treated to food and drinks at Serata Hall opposite the office, which is also part of the chain with Ealing's Teatro Hall that I previously visited. I had Prosecco and chilli margaritas.
Afterwards, a few of us went to have karaoke at Lucky Voice in the Liverpool Street area. I had a cocktail as well, and I sang karaoke badly because I cannot sing.
Later in June, I went to celebrate the birthday of one of my friends. Her birthday party was at The Fox, in Ickenham, which has replaced Home Bar.
I had to make a couple of visits to Swindon this summer for work, and on one of those days, I came back to Marylebone Station to wait for my train back to home. Due to the Swindon train being late, I had to wait around for my train to Ruislip and exhausted the shops. I found the famous Marks and Spencer's strawberry sandwich. It was not to my liking as I did not like the cream.
As the weather was lovely this year, I did have a lot of walks up to Ruislip and around the lido. On some of the beautiful days, the beach was packed with people.
This is a throw-back to my visit to Bristol for a weekend. I went to an Indian restaurant in the evening. My foot injury happened a few days before my visit, and this made walking difficult. When I visited Bristol, the harbour festival was on. I did not realise this at the time, and I forgot all about this event. Bristol was busy particularly around the dock area.
I also enjoyed pancakes in the morning.
In late August, my friends and I went to Teatro Hall again this year for bottomless brunch after we enjoyed the brunch last year. I had the fried chicken and the punch; I did not like the "Prosecco", which was actually Cava. We did not enjoy ourselves as much as previously.
I also had to go offices in different parts of London a few times as well, and one of the buildings near Holborn has a nice roof top garden. I had lunch out here a couple of times.
I enjoy visiting Covent Garden to see the floral displays, which are always a favourite of mine. This display was taken in August.
As the summer started to draw to a close, I enjoyed warm days in the garden, but the evenings cooled down. I enjoyed the fires in the garden. At the end of the school holidays, I had a couple of evenings with dinner outside with my friend and her daughter. She brought some marshmallows, and we had marshmallows and chocolate.
At Eastcote House Gardens, the apples were out at the end of the summer.
I also took some photographs of the flowers at Regent's Park in London at the end of the summer.
This year, I am very sad to see summer go because it was a nice one. I have been feeling a little low as the sunshine is less and less, and it makes me wish we had more of those sunny summer days.
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