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We were hanging out with Claire over east this evening, so we headed up to Hoxton Square beforehand to grab dinner.

We ended up at Zigfrid von Underbelly where it was Happy Hour so I had two of the Sunny Daze cocktails with vanilla vodka, lychee liqueur and prosecco. They came served with pansies on top.

Tom had a veggie burger with mushrooms, black bean & miso brown rice topped with vegan cheese. It was a little too spicy for me, so I stuck to a vegan pizza topped with potatoes, spinach and caramelised red onions.

We met Claire at The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, which is somewhere I've been desperate to go to and, with Halloween a few weeks ago, felt like the perfect spot to catch up at.

The museum is ran by The Last Tuesday Society and there's a cocktail bar upstairs.

I had the Happy & You Know It cocktail with gin, Chambord, elderberry elixir, egg white, soda and rosemary. Tom had the This Is Not A Brothel with bourbon, rosemary sugar and old time bitters.

The bar snack selection was quite interesting, with a mini platter of insects, an armour tail scorpion and edible chocolate anus on the menu.

It was then time to head down into the museum to check out some of the curiosities.

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I loved the glass cases and bell jars filled with strange skeletons and pickled creatures.

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The jars I didn't like so much were the ones filled with celebrity poo, though I'm left wondering how on earth the museum would have obtained these.

The fairies and mermen were my favourites, especially these impossible small fairy flies.

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There's a Sarcophagus Table in the museum that you can rent out for private events with a merman floating above the table.

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Claire and I loved the witches room. It even had a book of spells just like Hocus Pocus and we wished we could have our Halloween in it.

The fly theatre and spider chandelier were especially creepy when you looked closely at them. They made my back crawl a little.

As well as the world's longest standing erection, a gold plated rhino skull and the world's only dancing mole, there was so much to see so we'll have to come back again.

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Back upstairs, there were lots of skulls for sale and I was pretty tempted to buy a cat skull.

Afterwards we went to The MacSmiths of Hackney which is an Apple repair shop in the day and cocktail bar at night.

It was just as hipster as we expected for Hackney, with vintage macs paired with antique lamps.

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I ordered a Vermouth Sour which promised to be as foamy as a meringue, while Tom had the Sweet Stilton cocktail with rum, blue stilton syrup, port, bitters and saline, served with cheese and a grape.