Adventures of Greenwich

 So currently I have covid...For the second time. Which is not so great, but I get a week of work, right? 

I wanted to start by saying hello! I am Lauren. I left my home town, Dover, Kent in October 2020 to start a new life in London due to the pandemic and I have not looked back since. 

The move started originally with my ex-partner of 5 years but London changed us and I went on a spare room to find an apartment or a bedroom that had a few flatmates to start this new life of mine once more a year into my already existing one! 

This blog is going to be more diary of Lauren based I guess! a bit like Twitter where I can vent my feelings but into a much bigger space. Eventually, I will get into more of my life and who I am but for now, I wanted to speak about my recent adventure, Jack a friend of mine from my home town also moved to London a little over a year before me which is fantastic! He is one of my longest friends going back to the tender age of 12 when he was paired as my buddy in my new school in the form class, I guess he did a good job as nearly 14 years later we are still going strong as friends and I count him as family. 

I had been borrowing one of my parent's dogs for the week, Poppy. a Cockapoo about 8 months old now when poppy first came over to London she had long hair and mats in her fur and clearly needed more love and attention. 

I had a groomer come to visit as soon as possible and she came out as a changed dog. 

Below you will see a shaven but happy puppy!

As you can imagine my parents were furious with the outcome of poppy being groomed by me, the once shaggy puppy that they really enjoyed has now been shaven and looks like a completely different dog I think she was a lot happier with the lack of fur, especially in the spring heat.

I was quite surprised with how she behaved in London I popped her down in a local restaurant and while we ate the food she happily sat there waiting for us to finish not budging even when dogs go past which I was very proud of her for almost made me want to keep her really.

The day consisted of us walking around the park with some alcohol-free cider in hand and an adventure on our minds at first it was just me and Jack and as we went past a few different food places that look very convincing we decided to keep walking till he got to the gates of Greenwich Park and waited for friends. we had Poppy beside us and she was continuing to be very well-behaved, then we met up with two friends of ours and headed over to the local pub I think it's called the Greenwich Tavern. Burgers were a must today seeing as it was so sunny and warm a classic beef burger was on everyone's mind but I tried a fish burger which was a little bit different but I don't judge, it was very tasty
We then went towards the Cuttysark where Jack found a bunch of kids animals to ride and for just £5 he could explore the market and what it had to offer on a  huge zebra for 20 minutes you can see from the look on his face above it was clearly very worth it.

Overall we had a blast and I'm very much looking forward to exploring Greenwich a bit more now the weather has picked up and is showing us what spring has to offer! Sadly Poppy had to go back to Dover but she's now made me very dog broody!

Going outside and being independent with friends is the first thing on my list to becoming "That girl" and I look forward to sharing the progress I make with this blog and myself!