declutter

The Royal Vauxhall Tavern will always a special place in my heart.

It is probably the single venue I have visited most often since I moved to London in 2002, a place where I made new friends and met Dr B. too.

I started keeping the wristbands issued by the RVT (it's the kind of place where you can spend a lot of time outside sitting on wooden benches and tables, or on the grassy knoll behind it) and between my flatmate at the time and myself the collection grew very quickly.

When I moved in with Dr B. we put to use a neglected banana stand (on the left in the photo above).

When the RVT switched from the glossy plastic wristbands to a paper version, we kept those too (in the middle).

And when they changed again to machine-issued plastified paper, we started another collection (on the right).

But really, only the original vintage ones look good and remind us of the good times. So we are throwing the others away – and reclaiming a jar and a vase in the process.