Entries for May 2012

1st

• 12:14:29 Checked in at British Museum

2nd

• 08:59:01 Democracy arrives
• 09:09:20 Unclaimed "best" bus seats
• 11:00:41 Checked in at Café Verona
• 17:49:46 Thomas on the window sill

3rd

• 07:29:47 Getting my vote on
• 13:09:09 Since 1891
• 19:30:34 Checked in at Byron

4th

• 08:59:16 Month Of Unusual Sodas starting well
• 10:31:35 Country Club Raspberry Soda — utterly delicious

6th

• 13:32:01 Checked in at The Royal Standard Pub

7th

• 11:06:53 Olde Brooklyn cream soda — too heavily flavoured
• 19:22:20 Pop Shoppe pineapple soda — pleasantly relaxed pineapple flavour
• 19:31:48 Ubuntu cola — unusually for a non-Coke cola, very tasty

8th

• 10:01:29 Country Club merengue soda — sweet but puzzling take on cream soda
• 12:22:21 Checked in at Sophie's Steakhouse & Bar
• 14:18:35 Jelly Belly lemon drop — too fake lemony flavour
• 20:19:42 Checked in at Vue for The Avengers

9th

• 12:11:19 "Interactive" placemat

10th

• 14:08:04 Jelly Belly tangerine — nice take on orange soda

11th

• 16:44:42 Achievement unlocked: lemon meringue pie

13th

• 14:43:16 Checked in at Byron
• 15:05:57 Checked in at Vue for The Cabin in the Woods
• 17:22:59 Checked in at Bear & Staff
• 18:22:19 Checked in at Vue for The Avengers

14th

• 21:44:33 Press button to warm up

15th

• 11:36:30 Checked in at British Museum
• 11:38:57 Café Verona
• 13:16:56 Flathead Lake sour cherry — not as sour or as cherry as I'd like
• 15:19:12 Boylan black cherry — utterly delicious

16th

• 11:24:05 A bowl of coffee
• 12:06:08 Finished
• 12:15:15 Checked in at Le Pain Quotidien
• 14:19:24 Kazouza lime pomegranate soda — lovely almost-a-Shirley-Temple drink

17th

• 12:59:35 Jelly Belly sour cherry — much more sour and cherry
• 13:04:21 Checked in at Cybercandy

22nd

• 12:20:48 Jarritos lime — limey goodness
• 12:44:16 Checked in at Lincoln's Inn Fields

23rd

• 12:57:02 Unusual soda month #2 is about to start
• 13:35:41 Empire Bottling Works banana — very banana, strangely unsettling but tasty

24th

• 12:07:28 Squamscot maple cream — tastes like maple syrup made fizzy; I may not survive the entire bottle

25th

• 16:33:33 Langers orange cream — nice and subtle orange flavour

28th

• 12:20:45 Dad's orange cream soda — orange didn't overpower the cream; nicer than the Langers
• 12:23:52 Pop Shoppe black cherry — as good as, but different from, Boylan cherry
• 18:15:16 Crush strawberry — nice, not overpoweringly strawberry like a cheap ice-cream
• 18:17:42 Sioux City cherries 'n mint — truly awful, thrown away after about 1/5th consumed

29th

• 12:27:55 Warning
• 19:01:55 Checked in at Lowlander Grand Cafe

30th

• 13:02:36 Jarritos mandarin — the most delicious orangey soda I have ever found
• 18:18:14 Checked in at Fulham Broadway Shopping Centre
• 18:42:40 Checked in at PizzaExpress
• 20:15:32 Checked in at Vue for Men in Black III

31st

• 12:52:20 Promethean vehicle
• 12:53:31 "Do you have a flag?"
• 12:54:30 Squamscot strawberry — tasty; reminds me of my childhood
• 13:50:26 Checked in at Cybercandy
• 18:14:33 Checked in at Lowlander Grand Cafe
• 20:14:52 Checked in at Prince Of Wales

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