- You cannot go to pub without having at least three
or four packets of crisps that everyone separates like this
in a kind of bid to say these are for everyone
when they're just for me.
[relaxing music]
Hi, I'm Phoebe Waller Bridge
and this is my typical London day.
I will always have a Yorkshire Tea in the morning,
with obviously hot water.
Don't wanna spell it out, but we need to get it right.
Then a little bit of oat milk.
Not sure if that's this milk
but we're just gonna let it go
and just put it in this cup and pretend there's water in it
for the sake of this charming little video.
Now we can start our day.
[relaxing music]
Here we have King Charles III modeling Hello Magazine.
This is definitely a Royal edition, my gosh,
this is just catnip for actually.
Yeah, so you can just get so lost in Hello Magazine.
Down, and then we have Heat, the Oracle of truth
in this country.
It's incredibly moving and this is where I get
most of my news, again with Charles.
It's like a big year.
The Times too.
This is a bit more of a serious newspaper.
Although I have opened up on the Celebrity Watch page.
My God, what's going on with the British Press?
And then we have the Series, we have money talk here.
My number one go-to paper, lots of people shaking hands
in it and very, very small print.
I always think if there's small print,
you know it's very serious information.
[relaxing music]
Commuting, well, you have many choices in London.
You have the London bus, the big iconic red London bus.
This is an Oyster Card.
This is very familiar to Londoners and you put money on it
and then you can just beep seamlessly in
and out of the tube.
This is a Boris bike.
This is a bike that you can hire
and there's an app and then you can sort of take it out
and drive it to somewhere else in the city
and park it there, it's incredibly clever.
I like the danger of having my own bike that I can lock up
and just 'cause the little freeson of whether or not
it's gonna get stolen all day really adds something
to my quintessential London Day.
[relaxing music]
Work, work, work, blah blah blah
and then you'll go out into the city to scavenge some lunch.
Probably gonna be from Pret, that used to do a sandwich
called just very simply, the crayfish sandwich from Pret
and it breaks my heart that it doesn't exist anymore
'cause to me that was something
that was definitely quintessentially a London sandwich.
RIP, that's gone.
But they have got a new cheese bloomer thing,
which is almost as good
and then you'd probably have a few conversations with people
when they don't really say what they mean
and everyone's asking things like, "You all right?"
With the kind of panic look in their eyes
because they can't really say what their real emotions are.
[relaxing music]
So the four o'clock cup of tea comes with accessories,
digestive biscuits, hugely important to us Brits.
I do not agree with the existence of orange chocolate
in any way but there is one exception,
which is the jaffa cake,
and then this is something again, we are very proud of.
They're like biscuits, but they're cakes.
It breaks my heart if anyone out there
hasn't tried a jaffa cake, I really would.
You can also dunk it, but I prefer to take a bite
and then have a slurp of tea with this particular biscuit.
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So theater in the evenings is a big part of London life.
This is a picture of the Soho Theater,
a theater very, very, very, very close to my heart.
This is where I did my very first reading ever
of Fleabag before it went to Edinburgh
and then came back and did two runs here
and actually the Soho Theater put on plays every year
that have had success in Edinburgh
and it's an incredibly cool place
and you go and see loads of new writing and I love it.
Or you go to the West End darling,
where you might have yourself a little martini,
although I'm not sure they do actually serve martinis
at the West End bars.
But hey, it's nice to have you here right now.
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When you come out, it'll be raining and you'll be like,
[sigh] my bike's now in the rain
and I probably shouldn't have a drink because the cycling.
But then you'll think, hey, let's go to a pub.
There's one very popular chain called Wetherspoons.
The founder of the Wetherspoons Pubs,
he called them Wetherspoons because that was the name
of a horrible teacher he had who told him
he'd never go anywhere in life.
If that's true, I'm sorry, Mr. Weatherspoon.
Another very important aspect of London life is the crisps.
This is a favorite of mine, Hula hoops.
I can't believe that they don't have these in America.
Oh my god, big ones.
I'd actually not seen the big ones before,
but they just go on your finger like that.
You can do a whole hand of hula hoops
and then you can just spend the next three or four minute
eating it off again like that.
That's the main joy of hula hoops.
Scampy fries, I can't say one of my favorites
but are a hugely popular thing in the UK.
You cannot go to pub without having at least three
or four packets of crisps that everyone separates like this
in the kind of bid to say these are for everyone,
when they're just for me.
This is a problem actually having them on my hands,
I'm just gonna eat them.
Freddos's, what London Kid doesn't know about a Freddo.
These were sort of packed lunch essential.
They're delicious, they got kind of like caramel
on the inside.
Am I supposed to be opening all these
'cause it's just coming very naturally to me.
I thought they had caramel on the inside.
What am I thinking of?
[relaxing music]
This is something I take very seriously,
which is the gaming world of the Brits.
Games such as Cluedo, Monopoly, Scrabble.
They are huge in British families.
I don't remember everyone looking quite so sexy
as they do here.
Colonel Mustard was my favorite character
and I always liked murdering someone,
I think it was in the ballroom with a rope or something.
Really lovely game for children.
[relaxing music]
If your bike hasn't been stolen,
you will then put your bike in the back of a black cab.
Having to be very apologetic with the driver
who is always very understanding
and when you get out the car,
you'll walk up the steps to your house
and you'll see something out of the corner of your eye.
And if you're really lucky and you're really quiet,
you'll turn around and you'll see a fox
in the dead of night, swaggering down a London street,
and you're like, evening.
And she'll be like, Hey.
When you go into bed and you just wait for Maud,
your squirrel to wake you up in the morning
for another London day.
Thank you so much for listening to my London Day.
I hope it entices you to come to London
and I'm gonna sign off with a word
that all us Londoners will know.
Cheerio.
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