As the brilliant Mark Twain said, "If you hate London, you hate life." Too true.
One year ago, I was in London.
On a beautiful Saturday, which also happened to be a lucky day--as it was 07/07/07, I traipsed up and down Portobello Road looking for something fantastic to purchase and wrap up and take home and display in my house/apartment/room forever more to remind me of gallivanting around the beautiful English cities, countrysides, and so forth.
Luckily, I heard this old British chap passionately discussing one of my own passions out in front of his charming little shop. I remember he smelled a little funny. I remember he was wearing large thick glasses. I remember his lovely accent. I remember his bushy eyebrows. And I remember falling in love with the vintage clock (that he was gushing to another unsuspecting shopper about) at first glance. Needless to say, I purchased it.
This is the store where I bought that clock.One year ago today I bought a fantastic 1953 vintage mantel clock. Oh how I love London. And if you want to know what time it is, I will be happy to oblige.
5 comments:
london! i have my plane ticket. and my international student id card. 8 weeks man. we need to get together so you can give me an in-depth briefing. oh i'm so excited. love yoooooou and your clock.
I miss port. road. It was so fun to go shopping there. I probably spent too much money for my own good, but hey, I still use everything I ever bought in London...except for the food.
I remember when you bought that clock. I also remember that hilarious day when we carried it home on the plane. Ah, London. We should go back on 08/08/08. Or, since that is in the very very near future, we could postpone until 09/09/09. That would be lovely as well. But I am glad that you bought that clock.
AWESOME!! Brynn, I love you and your blog. I want to see your clock.
I"m going there someday Brynn and I hope I can take you with me!
PS--your blog introduced me to the Weepies and they are now one of my favortie bands, so thank you
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