From then til now
Wow!! this has been *the* busiest month.... I am currently sitting here snuffling and coughing but only have myself to blame. Burning the candle at both ends as they say!
I started my new job at St Helier at the end of August. I am in ITU (intensive care) at the moment and quite enjoying it. The only downside to it is that it is towards the outskirts of London so I need to take the overland to get there, and those trains are not quite as frequent as the underground. I did try driving as well but it ended up taking exactly the same amount of time so thought I may as well catch the train - at least I can sleep on the train :)
The 1st of September was Belinda's birthday and we had decided to have a joint birthday drinks which we had at the Station House http://www.priorybars.com/station/ which I know looks quite funky in the pictures but during the day with all the soccer players in it wasn't quite so nice. Fortunately the garden was lovely and as the afternoon wore on the customers became a little more.... approriately dressed. It was one of the nicer weekends that we have had this summer which was nice and was greatly complimented by Pimms.
Saturday the 1st was also the day that Gemma and Richie visited London on their honeymoon. It was really awesome to catch up with them at the pub, they also came around for dinner on Sunday evening and on Wednesday night we went to Browns in Shad Thames for dinner and a view of the Tower Bridge going up and down at night. The weather was supreme we sat out on the balcony.
On Saturday the 8th we went to China Town with Gem and Richie and had a great lunch before saying goodbye to them. They were leaving early the next morning and we were off to Magnus and Nicole's to watch the first round of the Rugby World Cup Australia destroys Japan!!
Sunday the 9th!!!!! My birthday!!!!!!! I had a very quiet morning, being spoiled by presents from all over the world and then we went to the Police! No we hadn't done anything wrong, I mean the Police Concert. It was an awesome concerty, the only down side was trying to get 85,000 people home via one train station afterwards. We ended up missing our connecting underground and had to catch a night bus but it was still awesome!
Vics sister and her husband were visiting London and came and had dinner with us on Monday night.
That week at work I met the boss who had been on holiday and officially got promoted!! Woohoo, I am still not permanent but until they fill the position I will have a little more 'responsibility'
Friday Dunc had an 'away day' at work on Friday 14th where his whole work went to Thorpe park - a big amusment park and played on the rides. Grant, Vic and I met him out that general direction to pick him up and then drove to Cardiff. Why? you may ask, because Cardiff was hosting a few games of the Rugby World Cup and we had tickets for the Wales v Australia game.
We got to the campsite we were staying at about 11:30pm Friday night and set up camp in the dark, and boy was it cold. The next morning after campfire brekkie we jumped on the train and head into Cardiff. The atmosphere was electric - fans everywhere and as it got closer to the time of the game the roads around the stadium were closed off to traffice. It was so much better organised than the couple of stadiums that we have been to in London. I think just because the stadium is pretty much in Cardiff rather than being on the outskirts so there were so many other things for the fans to do and see and there wasn't the bottle neck that normally happens. Dunc and Grant picked up the tickets while Vic and I went on BBC TV with a lot of other fans to support the cause. We had a quick pasta lunch and then headed into the stadium.
It was once we got in that we faced the biggest suprise, our seats were in the 2nd row!!!! We had paid a lot of money for our tickets (~350AUD) so expected that they would be semi - decent but we had bought them late so thought we would get what was left over! The roof on the stadium had been closed and fans on both sides were sooo loud and passionate, but still friendly. Needless to say Australia won convincingly. It was one of the best days ever! We finished up with campfire burgers, and went to bed very satisifed, luckily for us it wasn't quite so cold the second night.
We have started going back to the gym a little in an effort to get a little fitter especially with winter and snowboarding coming up quite quickly. Speaking of winter the last week it has definitely set in, it has been cold and windy and raining and the days are much shorter.
Last week was busy again. We had extra-curricular activities on Monday and Tuesday nights, on wednesday night Becky (from Canada's) parents came and stayed overnight with us for a stopover between sweden and canada, we went to Browns again :) I entertained myself on Thursday by watching an episode of Dog Borstal (for dog lovers everywhere) about a Great Dane who would not leave the house without his great big stuffed elephant in his mouth. Friday we went to Sara and Sam's for dinner as Sara's mum is visiting from home.
That is september in a nutshell!!
Later
Gem xx
I started my new job at St Helier at the end of August. I am in ITU (intensive care) at the moment and quite enjoying it. The only downside to it is that it is towards the outskirts of London so I need to take the overland to get there, and those trains are not quite as frequent as the underground. I did try driving as well but it ended up taking exactly the same amount of time so thought I may as well catch the train - at least I can sleep on the train :)
The 1st of September was Belinda's birthday and we had decided to have a joint birthday drinks which we had at the Station House http://www.priorybars.com/station/ which I know looks quite funky in the pictures but during the day with all the soccer players in it wasn't quite so nice. Fortunately the garden was lovely and as the afternoon wore on the customers became a little more.... approriately dressed. It was one of the nicer weekends that we have had this summer which was nice and was greatly complimented by Pimms.
Saturday the 1st was also the day that Gemma and Richie visited London on their honeymoon. It was really awesome to catch up with them at the pub, they also came around for dinner on Sunday evening and on Wednesday night we went to Browns in Shad Thames for dinner and a view of the Tower Bridge going up and down at night. The weather was supreme we sat out on the balcony.
On Saturday the 8th we went to China Town with Gem and Richie and had a great lunch before saying goodbye to them. They were leaving early the next morning and we were off to Magnus and Nicole's to watch the first round of the Rugby World Cup Australia destroys Japan!!
Sunday the 9th!!!!! My birthday!!!!!!! I had a very quiet morning, being spoiled by presents from all over the world and then we went to the Police! No we hadn't done anything wrong, I mean the Police Concert. It was an awesome concerty, the only down side was trying to get 85,000 people home via one train station afterwards. We ended up missing our connecting underground and had to catch a night bus but it was still awesome!
Vics sister and her husband were visiting London and came and had dinner with us on Monday night.
That week at work I met the boss who had been on holiday and officially got promoted!! Woohoo, I am still not permanent but until they fill the position I will have a little more 'responsibility'
Friday Dunc had an 'away day' at work on Friday 14th where his whole work went to Thorpe park - a big amusment park and played on the rides. Grant, Vic and I met him out that general direction to pick him up and then drove to Cardiff. Why? you may ask, because Cardiff was hosting a few games of the Rugby World Cup and we had tickets for the Wales v Australia game.
We got to the campsite we were staying at about 11:30pm Friday night and set up camp in the dark, and boy was it cold. The next morning after campfire brekkie we jumped on the train and head into Cardiff. The atmosphere was electric - fans everywhere and as it got closer to the time of the game the roads around the stadium were closed off to traffice. It was so much better organised than the couple of stadiums that we have been to in London. I think just because the stadium is pretty much in Cardiff rather than being on the outskirts so there were so many other things for the fans to do and see and there wasn't the bottle neck that normally happens. Dunc and Grant picked up the tickets while Vic and I went on BBC TV with a lot of other fans to support the cause. We had a quick pasta lunch and then headed into the stadium.
It was once we got in that we faced the biggest suprise, our seats were in the 2nd row!!!! We had paid a lot of money for our tickets (~350AUD) so expected that they would be semi - decent but we had bought them late so thought we would get what was left over! The roof on the stadium had been closed and fans on both sides were sooo loud and passionate, but still friendly. Needless to say Australia won convincingly. It was one of the best days ever! We finished up with campfire burgers, and went to bed very satisifed, luckily for us it wasn't quite so cold the second night.
We have started going back to the gym a little in an effort to get a little fitter especially with winter and snowboarding coming up quite quickly. Speaking of winter the last week it has definitely set in, it has been cold and windy and raining and the days are much shorter.
Last week was busy again. We had extra-curricular activities on Monday and Tuesday nights, on wednesday night Becky (from Canada's) parents came and stayed overnight with us for a stopover between sweden and canada, we went to Browns again :) I entertained myself on Thursday by watching an episode of Dog Borstal (for dog lovers everywhere) about a Great Dane who would not leave the house without his great big stuffed elephant in his mouth. Friday we went to Sara and Sam's for dinner as Sara's mum is visiting from home.
That is september in a nutshell!!
Later
Gem xx
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