Jennifer Yellow-hat

Look what my lovely boyfriend bought me!

Something good to read on the long journey to our holiday cottage in Devon tomorrow.

I’ve had a great Bank Holiday weekend, just the right amount of seeing friends, DIY and doing cool new stuff. We went to Walthamstow Stadium on Saturday night to watch the Greyhound racing. It was so much fun and I even broke even! We also finally had the time to do the Parkland Walk from Finsbury Park to Ally Pally. It was such a hot day we had to make some emergency refreshment breaks along the way at the Boogaloo in Highgate and the Village in Muswell Hill. And today I made my first item in my lovely new sewing book - and I think it turned out quite well!

Today we made a day trip to France to pick up some booze for us and fags for my sister. We spent a couple of hours driving round Calais, completely bewildered by the local tradition of wedding parties driving around the city centre tooting their horns! Saturday must be wedding day over there. Then we drove further up the coast to Dunkirk where we had something to eat in a cafe in the main square and people watched. It was so lovely being out of London, even if it was just for a couple of hours. And now we have a house bursting full of wine and beer

Today we went to Columbia Road Flower Market. I hadn’t been in years but it had hardly changed. We bought some new houseplants and got loads of good advice from the flower sellers - I’m never buying from Homebase again!

I loved the window display of Fred Bare Headwear (great name too!).

We also treated ourselves to some delicious cakes from Treacle.

Then we went for a lovely walk around Hoxton, Banksy spotting.