In which I have afternoon tea at Harrods

So here I am blogging again after an unjustly long break. It turns out I am ditzier than I thought I was so I'm afraid the photos are still not mine, but I am going to cope for now. So for now I am going to a blog post about my 3.5 date. My boy and I had afternoon tea at Harrods for our 3.5versary. It sounds beautifully pretentious and is hilarious when neither of us have any money, but it was actually sponsored my boy’s parents who told him to take me out somewhere nice. So we went.

Not a great picture, but best I could find and it does show the pyramids of macaroons

Our tea was in Laduree. It’s like a little café or ‘tea rooms’ within the main part of Harrods that is pretending to be French. They serve French food and have a French menu and a décor that could be French but I’m not really an expert on the insides of French tea rooms.
It is all pretty and pastels to match the macaroons in the main area, but we were put into a little room that was all black and silver with strange blobs of black melted plastic on the wall alongside some statues of semi-naked women without legs. Charming, but mildly disconcerting at the same time.
Well let’s get to the food! This seems to be turning into a review (and it kind of is) but don’t worry, I will also mention Harrods’ toy shop later which will make talking of macaroons totally worth it. The website for Laduree described what we had as their ‘magnum opus’: 6 items of food each and a fancy drink otherwise known as Afternoon Tea.
Oh yes. We paid £25 each, but we did get silverware. Our meal came to us of a three-tiered silver platter. So the meal:
Finger sandwiches, vegetable, ham and cheese
Pastries: croissants and pan au chocolats
Desserts: layered piece of chocolate cake, raspberry tart and a raspberry macaroon.
These all had French names and, whilst I like French, I can’t remember them at all. Sorry!
My boy also had a deliciously thick syrupy hot chocolate that we dipped our croissants in. nom nom.

So it was super posh and pretty tasty. Perhaps overpriced, but hey! It’s Harrods!

Anyway the next stage of our date was the Toy Shop. It may seem strange to you that I and my boy would go to a toy shop for a date, but clearly you haven’t been following my blog for long because I love toys (especially Playmobil). I spent ages looking at every Playmobil set on offer, but then the boy spotted something beyond my dreams.There are little tiny werewolves!

It’s Dungeons and Dragons style Lego! With a board you can rearrange! And weapons! And the thief is even called rogue! There is a barbarian and a ranger! Like in all good fantasy RPGs! Oh how we squeed.
So we bought a set and have already played it many times and invented new rules and I am ready to combine all my other Lego games with this one. I want to buy all the other sets (good marketing guys) and build as many boards as possible. I am truly in love with this idea.

Cakes and toys. I call it a good date. :)

In which I list my favourite playmobil figures

I am blogging on a Wednesday again like I promised. At least I got that far. It turns out I really am a bad blogger. It's true that I have been very busy with one of my closest friends in the world disappearing and getting married (the other way round) and so had hen dos and plotting.

However making excuses is just boring so I may have to accept I am a little bit of a rubbish blogger. Im going to keep aiming to do every Wednesday and as often as possible at the weekend but saving the world has to be done at some time and I'm no longer making promises.

Anyway at the hen do we had to tell an interesting fact about ourselves and how we knew the lady in question. I decided to share my obsession with playmobil. If you have been reading this blog for a while you will notice that I am inconsistent with my topics and occassionally just post up pictures of playmobil. It interests me and I hope it interests some other people out there. Or you all think I'm mad.

So. Today's list is: my 5 favourite playmobil figures.

1. The Cowboy.

This was my first ever playmobil figure. I bought him at a museum in California and played with him for the rest of that holiday. I took him with me to uni and wherever he sits on a shelf is home. He is my Woody. He was always the best guy when I played: a highwayman but friends with the native americans and only robbing from mean people.

2. The Jester.

I really love jesters. I am scared of clowns but jesters are somehow cool. I also collect interesting jokers in packs of cards, so I had to have this figure. Then my sister bought me a gardener set for the chainsaw just so this could happen.

3. Alanna

I got this figure because she reminds me of Alanna from the Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce about a girl who dresses as a boy in order to become a knight. It is a fantastic children's series which I talk about a lot and have really influenced me. I re-read them often. Also this figure could be a girl (as I think it was meant to be a boy) and that is rare in playmobil. For all that I love the toy I have no illusions that it is actually fairly sexist and I have a blogpost planned on that topic.

4. Ninja.

I have tons of pirates so a ninja is just cool and necessary.

5. Necromancer

I have this wizard figure for a while but I gained the necromancer staff recently and I love it. He is currently on my chest of drawers raising an army of the undead. Plus the skull on the end of the staff comes off.

One more thing. I played some dungeons and dragons a while back in which we made all of our characters into playmobil figures and I thought it looked good enough that it was worth recording.

We did some serious damage, plus I was a were-tiger.