London Lives

We’ve started frequenting some new pubs, having discovered them on a blustery sunny day after Christmas.  I say ‘discovered’, but they were always there, waiting and unknown until the day you decide to step inside.

We found them after a jaunt around Regent’s Park, lunch in Marylebone High Street and a potentially dangerous visit to the marvellous Daunt bookshop.  And last week we made a return visit. These ‘new’ places are in a long-favourite area, Marylebone, and attract the rag trade, media and publishing crowd.

The Yorkshire Grey is long and narrow with the beautiful features and stained glass windows of a Sam Smith’s pub (known to us as a G&T pub as the wines in them aren’t great. We stick to gin and tonic). There’s something decadent about a mid-week day off work, sipping G&T by a roaring fire, with BBC radio sound engineers chatting around us. Then on to the Crown and Sceptre (with a special wine offer on Wednesdays! Just the thing when a nice glass of Rioja is often six quid.) A nice buzzy bustle in this larger pub.

And I’m thinking about new places too: dipping a toe in, taking a leap into something new work-wise. It feels like standing on the precipice and attempting to make focussed choices.