Category: Journalism

Last weekend Ashley and her roomie came to visit. They spent the week in Paris and this weekend they were with their other friend. I was so happy to be their Ambassador to such a fabulous city. The first night we went to the Tower of London at night, it was so beautiful. Believe it or not I haven’t been there. Our evening finished off in the Liverpool area meeting up with Mad’s friend Nick. Oh, and huge cheap English portions will lead to what we call PH…the Potato haze.

They were pretty pooped from their flight so we spent the night quietly. The next day we woke up cozily late and planned to hit a lot of sights. We started at the crowded touristy Portabello Market. It was cute but I just couldn’t wait to get them to Camden Town. Of course, got sucked in for the rest of the evening. We all had very successful shopping and eating adventures, and I might have gotten talked into buying the cutest skirt possible. VERY London. I think this was very much our scene, and Ashley even got the Motorhead tshirt she promised Ted! I feel as though I should mention, Madeline spent the weekend teaching Ashley Jibberish!Ashley took about a million model shots of Mad at Portabello. She lets her.

In the evening we met up with her friend George and tried to celebrate Nick’s birthday. The night ended better with a trip to O’Neils. We split from George and beat the rain. Perfection.

The next morning we pretty much woke up late and had a delicious brunch at The Troubador. Also, imi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon all played there in 60s. Did I mention it’s about 2 blocks away from my flat? Yeah.  We then went to Harrod’s.  They were able to get nice gifts for their family and we checked out the fantastic Guitar exhibition.  There were lots of famous electric guitars and it featured the first electric guitar ever.  They departed for Paris the next day and things got hectic this weekend and we didn’t get to meet up.  But it was so much fun having them here!!  Glad you came 
Today I went to see some family.  All of us had a pretty exhausting weekend and were kind of zombie like, but it was still really nice to go.  It was good to see them, it’s been a long time and just being in a home was very cozy.  I love their kiddies too, so cute.  My one neice who’s 6 showed me how she plays the piano and her cool sticker collection.  Oh, I just love it.

I hit up the British Library for about an hour.  I spent most of the time in this number 1 charts exhibition.  You could listen to any song from any album that hit #1 in the charts between the present and 1960something.  I just sat and listened to lots of music.  It was so cleansing.  I loved it.

I just came back from the Foreign Press Association’s morning briefing in Downing Street. It was led Tony Blair’s official spokesperson, Tom Kelly. I was brought along by a colleague at the internship I am doing while in London. And Yes, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson (and probably more journalist/celebs than I even knew) were in the same cozy room of no more than 20 people.

Blair already announced he will step down, which is a first for British Politics. Since they don’t go up for re-elections so it’s interesting to compare Blair and Bush while at the end of a term. Not to mention the Metropolitan police are questioning the Prime Minister. I was warned that sometimes the FPA briefings can be dull, boring, and sometimes very quick. But lucky for me I was at the same meeting that all the political reporters needed to be at! By the time we walked back to the office, the story was already online.

From our news website, epolitix.com:
Police question Blair for second time. Tony Blair was questioned by police as a witness for a second time last week. His official spokesman said the prime minister was interviewed in connection with the ‘cash-for-honours’ row, but not under caution.