Up bright and early for our breakfast in the basement, permitted for me too on this second day. Only puzzled by the apparent absence of any lights coming from the houses opposite: surely they were not all absentee foreigners?
The breakfast room was as tastefully got up as our bedroom. Perhaps they did their shopping at the Mellor outlet just off Sloane Squsre, although I dare say there were establishments of the same sort which were rather nearer. Although reference 1 and gmaps between them tell me that he has probably not long moved from the premises I remember from fifty years ago at the junction of Sedding Street and Sloane Square, inter alia offering a fine view of the east window at Holy Trinity. Although it has to be said, this last looks better from the inside. I think we once bought a teaspoon there or something of that sort, just to prove that we had been. Bit out of our depth really.
As it happens, the image above from Street View is one of those which you only get if you come at the place from the right angle. A place where two image streams must meet with a modest amount of overlap.
Back at breakfast, a good fruit salad, served on a plate rather than a bowl - a fruit salad which included my first blueberries - not greatly impressed: all texture and no taste. Followed by black pudding, sausage and white bread. At least that was what I asked for: what I got was one slice of black pudding (fine), one sausage (very gamey, not fine at all) and one slice of dry white toast. I did not have the heart to explain to the nice cook about the importance of soft white bread for breakfast sandwiches, given that BH was very happy with her more complicated creation. I think we had a tea pot although I don't remember whether it involved tea leaves.
Breakfast done, out to catch the No.49 bus to Clapham Junction, thus avoiding the need to buy a tube ticket to Victoria or a through ticket to Epsom. We may not get free travel out in the sticks, but we do get free bus rides.
A quick visit to the International Store to stock up on flat bread and Turkish Delight - BH being rather fond of the brand that they carry. Lots of variety, very reasonably priced.
After which we came across what for me is a rarity, a trolley from ASDA. But we didn't take it back, so no score.
Onto Platform 11, where we would have just caught a Southwestern train had it not been cancelled. So off to Platform 15 to catch a Southern train from there, not that many minutes later. One of the many advantages of living in Epsom.
And so to the fish stall in the market to provide for the meal noticed at reference 4, followed by a taxi home for the cup that cheers.
There was also a craving for citrus, possibly brought on by something they had put into me at the Brompton, with the result that I took two red grapefruit, one after the other. Just one usually does for breakfast, while at hotels one feels a bit greedy going for more than the one half.
PS 1: in the margins of this post, I stumbled upon reference 2, which records both a visit to the Holy Trinity and a visit to the church in Sydney Street. And reference 3, which records both a visit to the International Store and the capture of the mineral book last noticed at reference 5. Must get around to taking some of my surplus books to the RPPL.
PS 2: a correspondent has sent in a snap of the bent crane, noticed at reference 6. It seems that it has grown a good bit since October. I suppose they would have had to shut the street while the extensions were added on, an adding on which must have involved a very impressive mobile crane. Or was a handily pre-existing tower crane able to do the business?
References
Reference 1: https://www.davidmellordesign.com/.
Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/05/saatchi-one.html.
Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/07/up-junction.html.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/12/panned-fish.html.
Reference 5: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/01/kensington-warming-up.html.
Reference 6: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-bent-crane.html.
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