On Friday night we had tickets to Dara O'Briain at the Hammersmith Apollo, so after work the lot of us (me, Uns, Noel, Si, Loz, Sarah, Greg and Lee) met up outside Hammersmith station in time for Dara's show - the Craic Dealer. I'm used to seeing him on TV on the panel comedy shows he does, but this was the first time seeing him live.

Not quite knowing exactly what to expect and whether most of his jokes would be Irish themed, I actually thoroughly enjoyed the gig. Much better than expected, with only one or two references I didn't quite get. But otherwise the rest of the show was brilliant!

Then in Saturday morning it was off to Richmond to meet up with a few friends of Una's who had organised breakfast there at Giraffe. There were way too many plenty of kids around for breakfast too, and had a good morning there except the breakfast was absolutely tasteless. Not quite sure how they managed that! Definitely won't be back there any morning soon, will stick to Tried & True or Cappuccino instead!

After breakfast, it was back to Putney for the afternoon then later that evening I headed out to Waterloo and try and snap a few pictures of the Shard with the railway lines from Waterloo East. I had an image in mind I wanted to try but didn't quite find a spot at the station suitable. Then I was off to the Old Vic Tunnels, an underground arts venue and performance space beneath Waterloo train station for some more grungy and arty pictures down there. It wasn't that busy, a few people scattered around doing some spraypainting on the walls, but imagine it's rather busiest earlier on in the day.

Afterwards I headed just down the road to Cubana and met up with Carol, Paul, Russell, Will, Seamus and later joined by Loz and then Si. It was nothing specific, just decided to make a plan to get us all to meet up somewhere central. The food there was mainly Cuban, together with a good variety of (happy hour) cocktails to match. I'd been there previously after work for a couple of drinks before, but not actually to eat. After a decent meal and a few cocktails, our table allocation time was up so decided to relocate over to The Fire Station near to Waterloo, which was fairly busy but then again it was a Saturday night. We had a couple of beers there, and then a few of the others decided to call it a night and head home. Myself, Si, Will and Seamus stayed on for another one, then they made plans to head out to a party in Soho organised by one of Will's friends from work. I wasn't all that keen to head there, so left them to get on with it and I made my way back instead.

Then yesterday, left home around midday and headed on over to the Amersham Arms for a Sunday roast there, before hopping on the train up to Barbican to meet up with Paul and Carol at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital for the Eat Your Heart Out cake expo and sale. The event was running over three days, from Friday until yesterday at the London Pathology Museum inside the hospital. They had on sale some of the most shocking and disturbing cakes, from bloody ears and body tissue cupcakes, fungal toenail cookies as well as polycystic kidney cakes. Unfortunately most of the cakes had already been sold by the time we got there yesterday - I didn't actually realise they were all for sale, I thought it was more a showcase of the case, otherwise would've definitely gone through on Friday evening or early Saturday to check some of them out :)

At least we still managed to see a few of the last remaining cakes, as well as buy a brain cake which was a replica of Robert Wadlow's brain - the tallest person in history. Amazing! The Pathology Museum was also impressive, unfortunately we weren't allowed snapping photos of that, but got a few of the last remaining cakes. After sometime in the museum, we decided to head across the road for some coffee and cake, and not just any cake, but brain cake :) It's not everyday you get to drink coffee and eat marshmellow cake in the shape of a brain!