Beanie Mouse

Sunday, 4 October 2026

A Visit to Saatchi, and a foodie bargain!

We got up early today because we're having an adventure!!!

And on the way to the bus stop we saw some dodgy parking. Big posh car parked on a double yellow line AND blocking somebody's drive.

Anyway, we carried on up to the bis stop....

And got a bus to here!! We're getting a train!

We didn't have to wait long AND we got a window seat!

And we're off!

But when we got to East Croydon, the sun disappeared!!!!!

Where did it go?!?!!!

We can't even see past that bridge!!!!!

Anyway, we got off the train - where now Jeeves?!

Aha! This is our bus stop!

BUS BINGO ALERT!! We're getting the number 11!

They got a CD

And we're off..... ooh that's pretty

Oh! We got off at Duke of York Square!!! We're going to meet somebody to see an expedition!!

We tied this to the fence, and our friend spotted us and came over!

We're going to the Saatchi Gallery!

We've never been here before!!

What are we seeing?

We're going to see the Winsor and Newton Art Mail expedition!! It happened earlier this year, where you could buy anything from the Winsor and Newton website and they'd send you a pack of watercolour postcards. Then you painted something on the top card which had a return address and prepaid postage and sent it back - they're all going to be sold off to raise money for art spaces in Mental Health places, and we did one!!!

They had 8,000 postcards and 2,000 are here today with another expedition in New York!! Ours didn't get chosen for the expedition but we wanted to see the ones that were!!

We took a whole load of photographs!!

It was so fun to look at them all!

Isn't it fab!!

OOOooooooo!!

CREEPY!!

Oh wow!! There were quite a few doodle ones!

Ohhh! A dino wagon!!

They had a mock artists desk too Ours is messier though...

We had a good look round - all the photos will be in a separate post. Then we had a look round the gift shop (we'll show you later) and then headed back to the Kings Road. Our friend had to head off to Tottenham Court Road but we're going to Fulham for lunch first.

We had an hour to get there though, so we walked along Kings Road for a bit....

We saw some interesting stuff!

And a muriel!!

And some pretty windows!

Ooo that looks slightly art deco, don't you think? Or art nouveau?

And there's a fancy clock!

Oooo!

Oh that's the Bluebird building!!! That's definitely art deco!

And there's Diba, a Persian restaurant!! We like Diba but we're going somewhere else apparently.

OH! We're at the World's End!! Sandy Bear wants to come here!!

We saw some muriels over the road!

Then we got a bit whooped from all this walking AND starving hungry, so we decided to get another bus!!

So we got another 11 bus!!

They got this!

And we went past World's End health centre too!!

And we got off at the last stop, Fulham Town Hall!!

Apparently we're going down her and taking that left turn......

Andrea says that's the place!!! It's a Spanish tapas restaurant!! We've been here before and it's really nice!

First of all we got a beer.....

And started with a Gazpacho! What's that?

It's a cold tomato based soop. COLD????? Oh but then I tasted some and it was FABULOUS!!!

We had a bit with extra kroo toms, and then with a bit of extra tomato and then with a bit of extra cucumber! It was fab!!

Then we had a seafood paella, which is what we had last time!!! It was just as good as we remembered it!

THEN Andrea got me a pudding!!! It's a Crema Catalana with crackly burnt sugar on top. It's sort of like a Creme brulee but made entirely in a sorcepan with milk rather than whatever the brulee is made with. And the Catalana one is over 300 years older than the Brulee!!!!!

We discovered that this place is a special lunch menu where you can have two courses for £16.95 or three courses for £19.95. So our meal plus the beer plus the service charge cost us £25 and a bit of loose change!!!

THAT'S A BARGAIN!!!!!!!!!