London, Cronuts and the World Cup

My meetings were in downtown London today. I love riding the train and walking through downtown to get to the office. Hearing Big Ben is something special. 

Phrase of the day is "should do". You'll hear people say something like "good idea, we should do". I think it's only missing the word "it" at the end, but it's interesting to hear. Oh, another variation is "could do". I'm also noticing that a few words have a different syllable emphasized. We'd say "contribute" with an emphasis on trib, where here the emphasis is on con. Same with distribute. One more "in anger" means "in earnest" as opposed to "whilst angry and mad". 

The World Cup is over for England and it's interesting to hear their conversations and reactions. They're not angry, upset or pointing blame, they're more likely to say "typical", and go from there. That said, I do hear some blame pointed towards defence and coaching. 

On the train ride home, the group next to me were eating cronuts. I still haven't had one, so I had to ask about them. It was their first time having one. We had a good time chatting about them, they decided they were good but not as exciting as the hype leads you to believe. They were so kind to offer me one, but I declined. Builds more excitement for me :)

I've realised recently that "weather" isn't actually that common of a topic. And politics isn't as big of a topic as I remember from previous visits to Europe either. I'd say it's more about current events.

As a family we had a nice dinner at home, then walked to a playground that we hadn't tried before. My wife is always interested in signs (makes me think of Dan Pink), she found one that said "danger of death" right next to the playground in an overgrown, grassy area for power lines. I guess it was funny and scary. We stopped for some ice cream on the walk home, which I suppose is always a nice close to a good day.