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Mum and Dad came down to visit for the weekend and we started off with breakfast at Vanilla Black where we had iced coffee, matcha lattes and custard starts.

We then headed to Vauxhall City Farm to feed the alpacas and other animals.

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I was getting distracted by the butterflies, who weren't technically farm residents.

We stopped off for a drink on the river and massive plate of chips to share at Tamesis Dock.

We then popped into town to catch a bit of the Pride parade as it went down Regents Street.

There was rainbow smoke billowing from one of the floats and bags of candy flying everywhere.

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Tom was very happy when he caught a bag of his favourites sweets, dolly mix.

Even the tube stations were celebrating with rainbow roundels and escalators.

We then travelled down to Canary Wharf to see the Crossrail Place Roof Garden.

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They were gorgeous with views over the city and giant skyscrapers towering above.

At one side of the Crossrail Place there's an American food-court called Big Easy and at the other a street-food market called Big Robot.

We had cocktails in Big Robot and admired the view before rushing off to our next stop.

There was a very cute fluffy dog who didn't seem to be appreciating the heat very much either.

We'd been offered free tickets with goodies bags at the Foodies Festival in Blackheath, so we jumped on the DLR and headed down for a bite to eat.

We tucked into some tasty halloumi burgers to fill us up before our picnic later.

Picturehouse had a pop-up outdoor cinema in Dulwich and I'd managed to get some free tickets, so we went along in the evening.

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We sat in deck chairs and tucked into a tasty picnic while watching Back To The Future.