In 10 days we’ll be living in a much larger two bedroom flat with Paul’s cousin Zoe and her boyfriend Daniel in Wandsworth. I’ve been blogging a lot about our travels, but kept rather quiet on everything that’s happened in-between. But that’s not for lack of stories to tell! This place has definitely been memorable […]
Read more "Top 10 Reasons to Move"Lots of people are checking in to make sure we’re ok following all the news footage of the riots in London. Last night I went for a walk near Regents Park and could hear shouting and car alarms as gangs of people ran amok. Before long I heard sirens and everyone dispersed. Besides a few […]
Read more "Riot Time"So today I met Henrietta, the voice of the London Underground. She owes her job to Emma Clarke, the previous voice, who was sacked after making the alternative announcements below. I didn’t know until today that she’s also the voice of NS&I. We had a three hour recording session for a project I’m working on. […]
Read more "Mind the Gap"I looked forward to this weekend all week: West End Live! Aka 200,000 people packed into Trafalgar Square to watch all the big shows perform live for 15 minutes. It would have been amazing if it hadn’t poured. Like, cats and dogs and antelope poured. Die hard fans that we are, we had no choice […]
Read more "…And Getting Caught in the Rain"A month or two ago I drooled while reading online about Taste of London, the annual food festival held in Regent’s Park just around the corner from our place. Then I saw the price. At £26 each just to get in, followed by a double whammy of still-quite-expensive food, there was no way we were […]
Read more "If You Like Pina Coladas…"All antipodeans become insomniacs when they first arrive in London. For most, it gets better after a few days when their jet-lag subsides. But not for me. I couldn’t sleep for a whole other reason. I would rather sleep outside than spend another night on the bony sack of nails our incompetent landlord had the […]
Read more "Life Lesson #27 – One Man’s Trash…"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"