London, cricket and Brownies

 

The ticks off my 'things and places never done/been before ' for July began with a trip to Eaglescliffe to get the train to London. I chose this route as LNER are so bad at the moment, I just would not give them my money. 

I arrived in Eaglescliffe on the 'little train' from Ladylaineyville, which has been running badly too, if at all. I took the train an hour earlier than needed and good job too, as we were delayed.

Arriving at Eaglescliffe, I decided to find somewhere to have lunch and found a lovely little cafe , called Serinos, about 2 mins from the station. I met two lovely doggies, Barnaby and Bertie who were with their equally lovely humans.I highly recommend this 'cafe' especially on a hot day with lovely seating outside. 

A quick trip to the 'One Stop' for mini bottles of wine and the on the train to London.

As my seat was at least 2million carriages away from the buffet, and couldn't be bothered to walk down for a glass, I just swigged the wine out of the bottles. Classy indeed.

Arriving at Kings Cross, I set off walking up to Euston where I had rented a studio apartment. I stopped on the way to get my eyebrows threaded, and then set up camp in the lovely airy studio. Home for 2 nights.

There was so much choice of food on offer in the road I was staying that I was spoilt for choice, I chose 'Murger Han', who advertise as being the first authentic Xi'An restaurant. With  locations in  the city, Euston, Mayfair and Elephant and Castle, they were busy and the food arrived quickly and was very good.

Back to the studio, a spot of Netflix and then I was asleep in the blink of an eye.

Thursday morning dawned overcast but very muggy.  I was up and ready for the day by 7am, far too early to head out, so I watched a bit of Netflix.

By 9 am  I   was on my way to The Oval where my first tick for July would be gained. I was 'frocked' up and had my beautiful Yorkshire tie bag with me. The lovely Trish, who is  now in her last season as Surrey President, came to collect me an whisked me up to the Surrey committee room ( tick no 1). I was given breakfast  and took my seat next to the lovely Howard, from Yorkshire.

The really good news was that Matty was playing so this really made my day.

I have to say that the lovely people at Surrey were very friendly and I was spoken to by so many, even an ex Prime Minister.

At lunch I was seated next to Yorkshire President, Jane Powell, who had brought along her sister, over lunch it was discovered that there were 4 ex Brownie Guides at the table ( Jane, her sister, myself and Rebecca daughter of Trish), amazingly we all had great memories of being Brownies, all saluted each other and still knew the Brownie oath, which just goes to prove that it was influential in our young life.

With Yorkshire winning, it had been a marvelous day for me, I had attracted a lot of male attention too, however it was the Yorkshire bag that was luring them in my direction, it certainly got a lot of comments..

The hospitality shown at The Oval was second to none, the staff were absolute stars and the food was amazing. I would like to thank Trish for inviting me for the day.

I was back in my little studio in Euston before I knew it and fast asleep in the blink of an eye. It was a great day of cricket.

My ticks for July however, didn't end there.