We visited the Four Lanterns Greek restaurant to farewell Rosemary tonight - she's been here for her summer visit and is now off to Turkey for three weeks en route back to New Zealand for her tenth summer in a row!
From left is Charlotte, Rosemary, Nicki, Annie, me, Alex, Colin and Simon - photo taken on Simon's fancy new Cyber Shot phone!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006
reflective!
Went on a day trip to Leeds Castle, down in Kent, today. Castle itself wasn't anything special but the setting was lovely - green grounds (they'd been using the water from the moat for irrigation rather than flouting the housepipe ban) and gardens. There was even a falconry display which was fascinating! The Castle also houses an aviary which has lots of exotic birds including toucans and a disgruntled looking kea (no windscreen wipers for it to tear into!).
Thursday, August 24, 2006
groovy!
groovy!/b>
For those of you who haven't seen this, this is a video from a group called OKgo! Great dancing!
For those of you who haven't seen this, this is a video from a group called OKgo! Great dancing!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
familiar!
Went to see 'The Vegemite Tales' on Monday night - it's a play about a group of Australian flatmates living in London. It's been playing for a couple of years in fringe theatre in Hammersmith but has transferred to the West End for a short time. It was all very familiar and well observed, including the set design (including a travel library, photos all over the walls and fairy lights) and the jobs the flatmates were in. There were some bits that were a bit crude and childish but there were also some scenes that were very affecting - I think the whole audience had all had the "I want my Mum!" moment.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
rockin'!
This is a not very good photo of Radiohead last night at the V Festival - hopefully soon I'll be able to post some much better ones from Simon's camera (this one was taken on my phone).
Had a brilliant day yesterday at V in Chelmsford - highlight was definitely Radiohead, but also enjoyed Bloc Party, the Magic Numbers and Beck. Beck had some marionettes of the band on stage with him that were very amusing and well done. He last played at V97 nine years ago which was the last time I went to the festival, with Simon. Radiohead played some new material but also a lot of the old favourites as wel, including, unusually, Creep.
We even went to see Kula Shaker for old time's sake.
Site was kind of muddy, especially the walk up to the entrance from the buses. None of us had gumboots on but loads of people did - very colourful pairs as well.
Travel home was tiring but surprisingly efficient (apart from getting back to Liverpool St when the tube had stopped and no cabs in sight). We had some very drunken Essex teens on the train with us which was particularly delightful.
Had a brilliant day yesterday at V in Chelmsford - highlight was definitely Radiohead, but also enjoyed Bloc Party, the Magic Numbers and Beck. Beck had some marionettes of the band on stage with him that were very amusing and well done. He last played at V97 nine years ago which was the last time I went to the festival, with Simon. Radiohead played some new material but also a lot of the old favourites as wel, including, unusually, Creep.
We even went to see Kula Shaker for old time's sake.
Site was kind of muddy, especially the walk up to the entrance from the buses. None of us had gumboots on but loads of people did - very colourful pairs as well.
Travel home was tiring but surprisingly efficient (apart from getting back to Liverpool St when the tube had stopped and no cabs in sight). We had some very drunken Essex teens on the train with us which was particularly delightful.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
entertained!
Visited two new venues at the weekend - on Friday night visited the Dean Swift near Butler's Wharf for my colleague Owen's farewell drinks. He's off to India for a couple of months to work with our Indian counterparts (India is a big priority for EY at the moment not surprisingly). The Dean Swift was a good pub - it even had Bundaberg rum, probably courtesy of the Australian bar staff! And on Saturday Li-Ann and I went for lunch at Canteen in Spitalfields - a modern British version of Wagamama, real comfort eating food with benches. Had a really nice pie and then some chocolate brownie sundae - yummo! Paid a visit to Montezuma's chcocolate shop afterwards - some lovely chocolate combinations!
Thursday, August 10, 2006
connected!
Wow, Skype is absolutely fantastic! Have downloaded the Skype Video Beta for Macs successfully (its not supported with any instructions at the moment as it's still a trial version) and have just had a wonderful video conference with Mum and Dad. Brilliant quality and a wonderful way to communicate. Got to show Mum and Dad what the skylight in my room looks like!
Saturday, August 05, 2006
picnic in the box
Kt and I went along to the Serpentine Gallery's Open Air Film night tonight - they were showing Performance (which was quite strange, but meditative in tone).
We ordered a Carluccio's hamper to eat with our meal - it arrived in a huge box (Kt had to get a cab to transport it!)
We ordered a Carluccio's hamper to eat with our meal - it arrived in a huge box (Kt had to get a cab to transport it!)
picnic out of the box!
even better! The picnic contained different salads, bread, chicken and jelly, not to mention a bottle of wine. Fantastic value and too much for us to eat!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
champion!
Last night, I was part of a winning quiz team for the second time in a month! We had a CBK Quiz night at a local pub and my team (Quiz Team Aguilera) was the winner by a fabulous ten points. It was a very enjoyable evening. Can't say I had any input into the sports round though. We won a lunch together at a local restaurant.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
stoopid!
Well I've just done one of the silliest things ever by putting my phone in the washing machine! It's really not a happy moby at the moment, and is at the moment dismantled and drying out in the kitchen. I'm hoping that it will dry out and come right... we'll see. I googled 'mobile phone washing maching' and discovered I'm not the only one. Many of these people (including someone with my model) saw a success after a few hours so who knows..
On a brighter technology note, broadband is working, wireless is working, have managed to video conference with Fiona and John and Skype as well. It's all good!
Weather is still gorgeous in London. Went down to a friend's place in Hither Green for lunch yesterday and stayed in the garden, complete with lanterns, until just before the last train. Lovely! Am just about to go for lunch in Islington now.
On a brighter technology note, broadband is working, wireless is working, have managed to video conference with Fiona and John and Skype as well. It's all good!
Weather is still gorgeous in London. Went down to a friend's place in Hither Green for lunch yesterday and stayed in the garden, complete with lanterns, until just before the last train. Lovely! Am just about to go for lunch in Islington now.
Monday, July 24, 2006
very wireless...
So I've had a bit of a saga with the whole broadband thing. The current situation is that I'm online at the moment on my Mac, but, er, I don't think it's my broadband! That's the thing with wireless! Oh well, it will do me for today!
This has given me a nice chance though to get loads of stuff set up on my computer - At the moment I'm querying GraceNotes (the system where you get song names and details) to get information on all my music - and that's a lot of music! So that will be great to find out just what I've been listening to.
Hopefully "my" broadband will be sorted out later this week and I can stop feeling guilty about hijacking someone else's!
This has given me a nice chance though to get loads of stuff set up on my computer - At the moment I'm querying GraceNotes (the system where you get song names and details) to get information on all my music - and that's a lot of music! So that will be great to find out just what I've been listening to.
Hopefully "my" broadband will be sorted out later this week and I can stop feeling guilty about hijacking someone else's!
Thursday, July 20, 2006
cold!
While we swelter here in London (36 degrees yesterday) I thought I'd post a photo Mum sent me last month of the house following the 'snow bomb'. Picturesque!
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
rough!
I've just volunteered to take part in Byte Night, fundraising for homeless or at risk people. It involves spending the night sleeping under the stars beside the Houses of Parliament. I really like my bed, so this is not going to be a comfortable night! It promises to be lots of fun though with food, drink and a quiz before we settle down for the night.
Our team (there's five of us) have to raise £5000 to take part, so we'll be doing lots of fund raising over the next couple of months. We've set up a fund raising website, so please donate through this route. Alternatively, we've got quite a few different ideas to raise money, including bake sales and quiz nights so those of you in London may be roped in for these.
Our team (there's five of us) have to raise £5000 to take part, so we'll be doing lots of fund raising over the next couple of months. We've set up a fund raising website, so please donate through this route. Alternatively, we've got quite a few different ideas to raise money, including bake sales and quiz nights so those of you in London may be roped in for these.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
I am Mac-ready!
Got my new Macbook yesterday - just walked into the Apple Store on Regent St and purchased it. It's very exciting - I was up til 1am last night playing with it. Especially love the webcam and 'Photo booth' functionality. This photo isn't actually one of mine - it's a random one from Flickr. But it seems there are a whole lot of people who buy a Macbook, and take photos of every stage of unpacking it!
Thursday, June 01, 2006
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