The English Shop

I found out the hard way yesterday, that the University library is closed on weekends. So this morning, I gleaned what work I could from the books I got out last week, and proclaimed the rest of the day a guilt-free day off.
I decided to walk around town a bit, and see what was there. I started to look at the ferry terminals at Slussen station, but I decided not to cos it all looked quite confusing; I'll just stick to it all being new when Tamsin comes. So then I went to Medborgarplatsen, which has a huge shopping area, and I stumbled across... The English Shop! It was quite surreal - they sold cornish pasties, Fray Bentos pies, Paxo stuffing, English chocolate, and that shower gel I like. And they had a little bowl of Quality Street at the till, and you were allowed to just take one after your purchase. Ooh, that's the other thing - Cadbury's Creme Eggs!

So yeah, it was quite a nice day. Just outside Medborgarplatsen station, there's this big square of grass, and loads of people were sitting on it, eating ice-creams (it's been hot as a summer day today), listening to these people playing huge drums. It was really cool, but it also highlighted how much I want to play the drums at the moment; in fact, I've got 4 songs right now that I really want to record, and I'll probably have a few more by the time I go back to England. It would have been nice to have someone to sit on the grass and eat ice-cream with as well. But it was nice to just have a day to myself, doing what I felt like. And at least I can tell myself that if I was with someone else, they would have had their own shops that they wanted to go to.