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My friend's coming down to stay this weekend and I'd like to do something nice for her birthday. Was thinking facials and afternoon tea rather than fancy cocktails up west, but was wondering if anyone knows whether any of the local beauty places do rooms for two, so that we could chat while being facialed?


feel like being decadent but not travelling too far because am fundamentally lazy and we're both knackered, so any and all other suggestions for two frazzled early 30s women in need of some tlc much welcomed. am utterly brain dead.

LizzygotDizzy Wrote:

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> I did have a naughty suggestion when I read the

> title of your thread, but managed to curb it once

> I had actually read your post! hope you find

> somewhere, have fun



to be honest, something naughty would probably blow away the cobwebs (hmm, perhaps not literally) as much as a facial and a cake. in fact more so I would imagine. thing is I can't be arsed to leave the environs of ED - where's the best place to pick up loose menfolk locally? (think that's a whole other thread)

RosieH Wrote:

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> LizzygotDizzy Wrote:

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> > I did have a naughty suggestion when I read the

> > title of your thread, but managed to curb it

> once

> > I had actually read your post! hope you find

> > somewhere, have fun

>

>

> to be honest, something naughty would probably

> blow away the cobwebs (hmm, perhaps not literally)

> as much as a facial and a cake. in fact more so I

> would imagine. thing is I can't be arsed to leave

> the environs of ED - where's the best place to

> pick up loose menfolk locally? (think that's a

> whole other thread)



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For afternoon tea my favourite two spots are The Lanesborough http://www.lanesborough.com/ or The Wallace Collection http://www.wallacecollection.org/


The Lanesborough has all the elegance and tradition of the Savoy or the Ritz, but without the crowds and tourists. Tea is served in a lovely conservatory, there's a fantastic tea menu and the cake stand is refilled generously.


The Wallace Collection is a lovely town house on Manchester Square, just off Oxford Street, with an impressive collection of art. You can wander round the rooms looking at paintings and beautiful furniture then go down to the restaurant for afternoon tea. It's particularly worth a look if you're not normally a fan of art galleries, because it's a house it doesn't have that oppressive, intimidating, art-is-very-serious-and-clever vibe that puts me off most galleries.


Both in town I know, but worth the effort.

I think it was John Betjeman who said if ever there were a nuclear attack, he'd like to be in the habadashery section at John Lewis, because nothing bad could ever happen there. I feel rather the same way about Liberty. Would have thought a pair of ladies could have a cracking time there. There's a new lingerie department for a start. And a nice (but somewhat expensive) restaurant.

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