16th August 2010

After spending so much time hunting for elephants earlier in the summer it was a lovely surprise at lunchtime today to see Belle and Clearing standing in their new home outside a hotel near Victoria.

19th June 2010

The good thing about elephant hunting is that it's taken us to many new parts of London that we hadn't visited before, from the uber-smart Mayfair to the more gritty parts of town such as Brixton and Elephant and Castle. Today however whilst on the final leg of our hunt in upmarket Kensington we came upon a road named after us! :)

18th June 2010

Now I like shopping as much as the next girl, but I'm afraid Selfridges just doesn't do it for me - it's just too big and sprawling with too many sub-areas so that I can never find what I want. Take today for example, all I needed to do was find 5 decorated elephants (yes, I was elephant hunting again!) and it took me nearly 30 minutes of going up and down the countless escalators and round and round the many floors before I managed to locate them. And even then I'd had to ask several security guards and staff members for help along the way!  Mind you as you can see from the picture Selfridges has been around for over 100 years - so it must be doing it for some people...

16th June 2010

Today I went to Westfield for the first time, but it was not for the shops. Yet again I have had a busy day elephant hunting - five before work, around 20 whilst on a run at lunchtime and then a mammoth hike across the northern part of the Circle line after work with Mr W culminating in a visit to Westfield to find the shiny pachyderms there.

My feet are exhausted!

15th June 2010

This elephant hunting business seems to be becoming an obsession.  It started as a passing fancy to take a few pictures of some the elephants in the London Elephant Parade, but somewhere along the line it has developed into a full-blown challenge to see all 258 in their original positions.  The only trouble is I still have around 120 to visit and only a few days left to do so, which is how I ended up spending my lunchtime today in Chinawhite nightclub in Fitzrovia. Mr W and I were visiting the rather naughty 'Gerald' who has been banished from Selfridges for being too offensive.  It didn't seem too bad to me - you had to study the leaves quite intently to see the explicit content of the paper they were made from - and I was amused to see a family with 2 young children turn-up for a viewing as we were leaving!

9th June 2010

I took a walk up to Victoria Tower Gardens at lunchtime today in order to bag some more elephants from the London Elephant Parade, but on the way into the park I was rather taken by this statue of Emmeline Pankhurst and the fact that someone had laid flowers by it.

Emmeline Pankhurst was leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win the right to vote, and turns out she died on 14 June 1928 which may explain the flowers at this time.