Yesterday I got the bargain of the century. Our room is sorely lacking furniture, and everything is so expensive that I’ve been putting my stuff on the floor beside my bed every night rather than pay £20 for a set of dusty plastic drawers from the variety store to use as a bedside table. I […]
Read more "Life Lesson #26 – Don’t Take Furniture on the Tube"First day of work today. Caught me by surprise really. I had expected my contract to be sorted on Monday, so when my recruiter was still mysteriously “resolving things” on Tuesday I started to worry that something was wrong. I could just imagine the phone call “sorry for the mix-up Mr Allen, we actually wanted […]
Read more "Heigh Ho, Off to Work I Go"On Friday, straight after The Mousetrap, we caught the overnight bus up to Glasgow for the weekend. We booked the trip for this weekend so we could see Paul’s cousin Zoe perform in a cabaret she’d written as part of her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The 8 hour bus […]
Read more "A Weekend in Scotland"Best Black Friday ever… I got a job! I have a 9 month contract at National Savings & Investments as a Campaign Development Manager. They’re a government owned investment bank, kind of like Kiwibank. The role doesn’t appear to be as interesting as what I was doing at Westpac, but it’s paying a lot more, […]
Read more "Friday the 13th"Drama at the hostel this morning when the owner arrived. We knew he was coming, because the guy who runs the place finally got around to checking us in (and taking our money) last night – our third. The owner was one of those slimy types who tried to charge us €4 just to leave […]
Read more "Day Three in Madrid: The Real Palacio"After the bedbug incident, I’m not really in the mood for an Art Gallery this morning. But, because it’s the Reina Sofia, and they have Picasso’s magnum opus, Guernica, I make the effort to be chipper. The sculpture in the lobby is of a paintstroke. Paul fell in love and took about 100 photos. The […]
Read more "Day Two in Madrid: The Spanish Way"I woke up this morning covered in bites. There are at least 20, all over my body. They’re bigger and itchier than mozzie bites… the closest thing I can compare it to is 20 bee-stings. I’ve had chicken pox before, and I’m pretty sure they’re just bites because I don’t feel unwell. So, I’m just incredibly […]
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