Jack in Wonderland...

I've been thinking about how often I should update this blog. Weekly? Daily? Or when I just feel like writing. I've decided to go for whenever I feel like writing, but will never leave a week unwritten. I know this spring of thought is very complicated, but I guess that's just me. Moving on. I'm currently with a corned beef and mustard sandwich laying in my bed after what could of been the longest weekend of my life.

My mother, sister, grandmother and my cousin came up to London to visit for a couple nights. It was delightful to see them and maybe I miss home more than I think I do. Saying goodbye is very hard. I didn't cry but there was certainly a tear trying to escape. After a late arrival on the Friday we went straight to our hotel and had a catch up over wine and Alan Carr.

I haven't been to every city obviously, but I honestly think London is the best city in the world. It has a bit of everything (minus the weather). The beauty of Paris, the New York character, the nightlife of Amsterdam and enough landmarks for you to never want to visit another city ever again. So because London has won the Best City Ever Award at the Jack Awards, it would be rude not to go into central to do some fun things.

Firstly we went to Camden Town with our all day travel-cards and oyster cards. I really love Camden market more than life itself but the amount of hipster wankers is ridiculous. Everywhere you look you seem to have someone trying to look individual when they just look plain stupid in sight. Afterwards we headed over to Covent Garden (another favourite location of mine) where we had a few drinks and watched street performers before heading over to Summerset House.

I was looking forward to this. The beautiful Summerset House was getting ready for the festive season putting up the ice-rink for people to pay ridiculous amounts of money to fall over. Advertised all over London is the Tim Walker - Art of Storytelling exhibition and I've been so excited to go and view his work in person. Walking into the east wing of the house felt like falling down the rabbit patch hole into a even more twisted Wonderland. Not only a Wonderland, but a fashion lovers dreamworld with one of the most famous fashion photographers work on display, with photos of fashion icons including Alexander McQueen, Tilda Swinton and Helena Bonham Carter. With quotes on the wall by Walker himself in the different rooms with different themes of the art of storytelling, this truly gave me a huge insight on how Walker works as a photographer and there is an amazing collection of work at the gallery. My favourite was the 'Giant Doll' pieces - look it up!

I'm going to stop there as I'm very tired and I fear that I am boring you. Not to mention my grammar and wording. I've also decided to dedicate this Sunday night to Hilary Duff and watch her entire collection of films before heading to the land of nod. Until next time, goodnight...

-Jack