Okay and so after returning from Liverpool, I had a couple of days before heading south down to London, and staying with friends until my trip on Monday to New York.

I was dropped off luckily for me thankfully for me, at Heathrow Airport very bright and very early on Monday morning June 22nd. 

This year, luckily also the flight took off on time, more or less. I was in a lucky dip seat I say smiling as I would not pay for a seat, it makes no sense flying alone to pick a seat, although I do prefer being by the window so I can lean and sleep! 

The flight passed by great, sat next to a guy who works at the German patents office, sounds such an inte in Job! All the ideas people can have! The weird and wonderful! We landed early, I had arranged to be collected by cab, somebody that we all use here and I have used before, I messaged to say I'd landed, collected my baggage, and was coming out and he told me which collection Zone to go to and it worked out absolutely perfectly. 

I got to my aunt's and all good absolutely wonderful, I always feel at home here, she is like my mom and dad rolled into one.. I don't know if that makes any sense at all, she is the closest person I have to my dad, well apart from my brother! 

My wonderful cousins are doing what they've always done when I am here, and I am so very thankful for them. 

The shopping center above and the two car park photographs, are from a shopping mall very similar to Bicester Village, and even mentions Bicester village, so I guess they are linked by whoever owns them. 

But I have never seen such an empty place, ever! Those cars were the only cars in the whole car park, and the shopping center as you can see, there can only have been maybe at a push 30 people, maybe 40? 

I had no intention of purchasing anything, but was as always drawn into the Levi store, I tried on a dress I liked in two sizes but neither fitted? Which seemed a little strange! 

So went to another Levi store the other day and bought the one that should have fitted, and does? It does seem strange that the sizes were not the same? That's not good Levi!!

Above just some yams! 

The two photographs above if you look very carefully show a raccoon on the neighbors roof, I thought to start with there was a cat and then I watched and realized no it's a raccoon! 

I think he may be trying to dig his way in! 

And then look below look where we went!!  Look look look! It is the Everybody Loves Raymond show set!! 

We went out onto Long Island and this was an exhibition, absolutely fantastic the green chair was maybe one of the only things that was not original, but the sofa is and everything else everything else! We sat on the sofa we sat on the chairs we walked around! There were lots of TV TV channels amongst the exhibition, the very famous toaster that Marie had had somebody engrave so that Raymond and his wife couldn't take it back! 

Obviously I have used AI below because Marie and Frank were not there!
 

Upstairs was a Billy Joel exhibit too! Music all around, another great music exhibition, two in two weeks!

M.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard - 1856-1915 - Writer - Publisher – Artist