Chocolate Polar Bears, Smoothed Fruit and Ponchos!

Well what a summer of events it's been, and I haven't been nearly to enough of them!
Did manage to make it to the annual Ben & Jerry's Sundae on the Common. Uber thanks to Miss S, Miss A and Mr M for joining me (it was either that or I go by myself and eat myself into an ice cream stupor - well not that we didn't do that anyway!). What a fabulous afternoon it was, and an especial thanks to Mr M for missing his Sunday skate! It was a lovely day with Pimms, one of nine ice creams, Pimms, one of nine ice creams, chilling on the picnic rug, one of nine ice creams, going on the helter skelter (with a couple of injuries to Miss A and Miss S!), one of nine ice creams, wondering around, one of nine ice creams... though occasionally we did queue up for one and then straight into another line for another!
That is until we cottoned on to the fact that there were four of us and if we queued two at a time we could get more ice cream! Oh yeah, we did manage to see & hear something of the bands playing!
My favourite is still Phish Food, though the Baked Alaska was pretty good.. though I did feel terrible munching on a white chocolate polar bear! Or ten!

Then another day out was to the Innocent Village Fete at Regent's Park with Mr S and Miss A. A lovely day of clear weather and pelting down rain showers! It was fun trying to dodge them under trees - some are definitely more rain proof than others!
What a day of happenings though... duck herding, tug o' war, women morris dancers, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (never have I heard such a rendition of Nirvana quite like it), many a smoothie tasting, free Yorkshire tea (with orange & chocolate cake and marmalade cake and some tea to take home), free herbs and some £1 off Bushmills whisky for the next time we visit O'Neills from the lovely Bushmills guys! Now that was fun.. relaxing on bean bags, with a neat Bushmills and being told a good ole Irish yarn! We had to visit that tepee twice!
Then it was a lovely meander through Regent's Park to Baker Street - Queen Mary's rose garden (with some lovely blooms still blooming), the black swans on the ponds and even spotting a heron!

Ahh, I do love London in the summertime - so much to do, even if it rains!

http://www.benjerry.co.uk/sundae/
http://www.innocentvillagefete.com
http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx
http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/regents_park/