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Saturday night, two of my favourite New Yorkers, Dan and Christy Claire arrived in town. I went to meet them at Heathrow, then escorted them over to Islington, where Dan's cousins have a palace of a duplex apartment. After some apartment exploration, I eventually managed to drag them out and down to the pub where Leith, James and Tommah were secretly waiting for them. But man, talk about taking her time getting ready... CC is almost as bad as my sister.

Sunday was our usual East London Sunday Brunch - this time at Hackney City Farm, where lots of small children were running around in Halloween costumes. After full english breakfasts, for those that eat meat, and other variations for those that don't, we headed over to Columbia Road market, then down to Brick Lane and Cheshire St as a visit to Beyond Retro was requested. My energy levels were starting to flag so we escaped the market masses and went to the Redchurch for refreshment. Wine, Pimms, beer, americanos, Orangina...

Later I accompanied the troupe over to Curtain Road and left them in another pub [for the record, Dan and CC got a little too overexcited at the American Apparel store they discovered on Curtain Rd] to trek back over to home sweet west London...