Never Being Boring

[dotinthesky]

Hampstead Heath was Kevin & mine's destination this Saturday. We waited until noon to leave our home, after the real estate agent had come round with a couple to see the apartment. I'd spent the morning playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and was itching to get some sunshine. Kevin suggested we pack a backpack with our usual stuff (towels, water, sandwiches) and head north. And so we did.

On the way there, we bumped into Gillian McKeith as we entered our train. I bought two bananas, a BLT sandwich, a raspberry/strawberry smoothie and a 1L bottle of water once we reached Hampstead Heath's southern entrance. Shirtless men throwing frisbees reminded us of Montreal's Mount-Royal Park; one of the pond's was covered with algae, which Kevin photographed with his disposable camera; not many people seemed to be around, and the percentage of queers wandering around was quite high -- I even spotted a few men in the woods, off the tracks.

We reached the lawn just south of Kenwood House and settled on the soft grass; Kevin stretched himself underneath a tree and listened to his mini-iPod while I plopped myself on my towel and worked on my tan. After an hour, boredom got the best of us; we walked towards Kenwood House for capuccinos in the garden then left after Kevin bought an ice-cream.

We learned today that there's a bus -- the number 46 -- which runs from Hampstead all the way to Warwick Avenue Tube, the station nearest our home. We bought our dinner at Tesco and arrived home about half an hour ago. I'm now waiting for the boiler to heat up so I can clean the bathrooms.

We watched Serenity last night (blergh) and we are watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight. After Big Brother, of course.

Comments

[greenteablack.livejournal.com]

That's cool that you saw Gillian McKeith. I think if I saw her in the same place as I was I'd think she was coming after me.

[izzybees]

Serenity is nowhere near as good as Firefly.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lovely day. I need to do stuff like that more often.

Ack! You didn't like Serenity!? I loved it, that's how I got into Firefly.

[msanthropist.livejournal.com]

I always enjoy reading your posts - they're like reminders of to be human beingsinstead of my approach: thinking I must always be a human doing. Your life with Kevin sounds almost idyllic ~ think about it - you working at the National Theatre seeing the latest and greatest in stage productions and running into minor celebraties in the normal course of your life, Kevin an artist having his works exhibited internationally - you a budding famous author - le sigh....thanks for sharing!

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

What would be the Hampstead Heath? I thought it was related with hemp, lol