last sunday ( iphone pics )

last sunday i woke up at 3.15am

i suppose my body was still operating on uk time.

still, there was a 24 hour diner around the corner from my hotel so after

taking a long walk and a long shower...

there i was, in a booth with all my mates

breakfast

corned beef hash, home fried potatoes, 2 poached eggs.

also included but not pictured were two rounds of wholemeal toast

and some grape jelly.

after breakfast i took a stroll around the block

and dropped in at the 24 hour pharmacy

where i almost bought these

but instead, i limited my spending to the essentials.

replacing stuff i'd forgotten to bring along

back in my hotel room i noted the very nice clock

which i liked so much, i looked on amazon to see how much they cost.

my hotel room was very decent. lots of nice touches including...

a,b,c...

for a quick fix

right ?

i decided to debut my team 'get buckets' t-shirt

which turned out later in the day to be quite funny

sorry about this photo but there's no point in lying...

i liked my hair so much, i took some photos of it !

er... moving on...

i had an appointment at 21 mercer ( don't judge me )

where parked just outside was a very nike number plate

inside 21 mercer

this photo tells quite a story...though not one i'm going to tell just yet.

what i will say though is that the shoe at the top left just under the red parcel 

should look familiar to you... right ?

i will also say that the red parcel contained a length of material that i brought to

new york with me... a parcel which was sent to me from the outer hebrides.

also, see the big square brown / black swatch ?

it's a digital camo material by maharam

hmmm...

my new friend 'overtime' was having a long hard look at these bad boys

special edition deconstruct bespokes.

i was tempted... but i resisted.

at 21 mercer i chatted for a while with 'g' who works there.

at one point he asked "do you know rocky ?"

my reply was to unzip my jacket and show my 'buckets' t-shirt.

'g' responded with a smile and then unzipped his fleece.

what are the chances ? probably about 20 of these t-shirts ever made.

time was tight though so i had to say goodbye to 'g' and 21 mercer

i also had to say goodbye to 'overtime' who i feel like is one of my oldest friends

even though we'd only connected by email about a month earlier and met for the

first time about 2 hours ago. 

'overtime' is top man and hopefully we'll meet up again soon.

i then met up with asiatic ( more about him later ) who took me to a great

place near orchard street for meatballs

i think i had beef and pork spicy meatballs with parmesan focaccia.

we sat outside even though it was a bit parky and chatted away.

good times.

asiatic had to go after a couple of hours, so we said goodbye and i headed

back to my hotel. it was probably about 6.30pm and i was absolutely shattered.

i guess i'd been up since 3am-ish and hadn't slept much for two nights

so i strolled off in the direction of my hotel.

then the thought occurred to me... i hadn't had a coffee since 6am.

all day without a coffee.

then as soon as i thought about it i looked around and the next shop along was

a really cool looking coffee joint. it was absolutely empty too ( perfect )

it was then that i ordered up my first flat white of the trip.

obviously this is an iphone pic and it doesn't look all that.

but if ever a coffee could make a grown man cry this was it.

the sheer desperation for a good coffee, the tiredness that was setting in, plus finding not a starbucks or whatever, but a really amazingly stylish place with my favourite amount of people in the place ( zero )

well, it was perfect.

then back to my room, a film and zzzzz...