Date: Tuesday, August 3rd
Place: Holland Park

After complaining heartily just that very picnic morning about all the delicious English dairy products making me fat, I decided to show the English Dairy Industry that I am in charge of my own destiny and my own kitchen by crafting two salads with dairy of other nationalities: a potato salad made with GREEK yogurt and a caprese salad made with ITALIAN mozzarella. Lisa supplied the Quorn fake beef slices, crackers, and a delightful greek salad (with greek feta perhaps?) Yes yes. It was time to go to Holland Park.



We chose Holland Park because of its size, as well as its many promised features that include a Japanese Garden, Fish Pond, Tennis Courts, and Adventure Playgrounds. That and the fact that I still have not been over to that area of town and wanted to walk around Notting Hill for a bit, which felt to me like a colonial Caribbean town, if I had any idea what a colonial Caribbean town really felt like. There were also opera singers in the park performing "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" which lent a whimsical touch to the afternoon.

It was another GLORIOUS ENGLISH DAY!!!!




We put on special ladylike outfits for the occasion.

Lisa donned her babydoll skull dress.



And I put on my very special gold sequinned shoes.



We found a nice patch of dead brown grass to sit on, and proceeded to eat, drink, and make merry, because this is really what we excel at in life.





Despite the clearly fantastic scenery and weather, and the perfectly appropriate picnic hour of 4 pm, there were surprisingly very few other people in the park at the time. Not a single teenager even! However, we still managed to make some new friends. This little fellow was the perfect match for Lisa's outfit.



Not to be outdone, I had to make a new friend as well. I lured him over by waggling my shoe ever so slightly.



Please meet my new friend Henry!



There is no end in sight to the abundance of wildlife and majesty of nature in Holland Park.