The other day, I went to a cheese shop / cafe (I have a bit of a cheese-love thing) with my laptop for a couple hours to do some work. The manager was super nice, kept checking up on me to make sure I had what I needed, and just made the whole stay there extra pleasant.
Yesterday was gorgeous, warm and sunny. Imagine stereotypical English weather, and then imagine 180 degrees off that. That was yesterday. So, I went to Borough Market, one of my all time favourite London places. http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/ for the curious. It's all food, mostly locally produced, all delicious.
Wouldn't you know it, the cheese shop manager happens to have a stall there! He walked past me, said hi, introduced himself, and the proceeded to feed me cheese! Even better than the cheese was running into yet another person. London, I love you.
After that, I started talking to the Mushroom Pate guy, who was equally friendly and offered to be my running buddy. I warned him that I am, in fact, the slowest runner on earth, so we'll see how that goes. Or if it goes. Regardless, he was friendly and the friendly thing makes me happy.
I just had such a geeky "I heart London" day, it really made me feel like I'm in the right place and doing the right thing. When I left Canada last, I wasn't 100% sure what I was doing coming back here. No flat, no job, minimal support system. But, London. I've always been drawn to this city. It's massive, but each chunk of it has it's own vibe. It's like living in a village, which is VERY close to roughly 1000 other villages.
And, as of today, I'm here and I'm happy for it. I am committing to getting settled now. I've resisted it a bit, but I'm a bit sick of having one foot out the door. With the ex, towards the end, I kind of felt like I shouldn't get too attached in case the worst happened (it did). And then I went to Canada, and now I'm here, and I want to feel at "home". I want to buy a 10 pound bag of rice and be around to use it all up, you know?
This would be an AWESOME place to come home to!
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