OK Daylight Savings sux. Dark by 4pm does not help work morale. Plus Im entering into my 2nd cold in 3 weeks. Thats alright. Guy Fawkes tonight down Clapham Common. Supposed to be 40,000 people turn up! Rock and Roll! Few shifty coctails before the bus down there and we'll be rollicking. Started playing 5 a-side footy a couple of weeks ago. Big fun that. Bit of a run around, then down the pub for a couple of bevvies. Caught up with Cousin Andrew the other night aswell. He's been here 3 weeks so we went and had a beer before [View Full Entry]

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OK Its been a while since I updated, and this is the 2nd time Ive written it. Bloody computers! Not been up to much, just go to work & then come home via either the supermarket or the pub depending on the day. Fridays are usually work drinks, theres been somebody leave every week since Ive been here so theres always drinkies going on! Saturdays are usually spent hungover or shopping/site seeing. Still not finished the war museum yet for crying out loud. My English mate Craig has decided that he’s moving to Oz in a couple of weeks, so this [View Full Entry]

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Another week and weekend gone. Work was good, one of the guys Riki was leaving Friday, so there were 2 or three boozy lunches to be had over the week. Friday was the worst, 2 pints at 1pm, back to the office at 3pm, drinks at the office at 5:30pm, then straight down the pub again! Home by 1am tho, so not too bad. Eds leaving this Friday, (I must smell or something), so another week of activities hopefully. Saturday went to The Imperial War Museum with Niki, Alistair and Dave. We were a little at odds tho, they finished the [View Full Entry]

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Well, its amazing how fast you can slip into the groove of things. Its gotten to the point now where it's kinda like home. You get up, go to work, come home, cook a feed, go to sleep and get up again the next day to do it all again! Was sitting in the pub the other day, (new theme there), talking with Hamish and he raised a good point. Its almost half way through the decade people. Hows that for some freaky shit? The "millenium" was just last week for crying out loud! Was cool having Hamish stay, few sleepovers, [View Full Entry]

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Mid week here. Pretty good weekend just gone. Work drinks Friday, then shot up to North London to catch up with Kara whose over on holiday from NZ. So stayed up there a while with Nix and Ali and Kara's mates. Sat morning woke up and talked to Ma & Pa, great to hear their voices! Headed up to Portobello Markets for a wander, bought a few knick knacks for the flat, not much else. Markets were pretty big really, (most of them are here, already spent a day discovering Camden Markets with Alistair a week or so ago), Portobello though [View Full Entry]

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Went to Scribe last night at "Neighbourhood" for Alistairs birthday. Was just like being at home! Room full of mainly kiwis, Montieths behind the bar (ooh that goes down so well!) and NZ hip hop blasting on a mega sound system. P-Money and Scribe were in FINE form, it made for an awesome night. Couple too many tequilas though which I felt this morning, but when you start at 9:30am, most of the hangovers gone! Quick update here on my flat. Moved into a place in Chiswick about a week ago. Nice, clean, warm place, right price. Set in a pretty [View Full Entry]

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Bank holiday weekend!!!! Every year London has the Notting Hill Carnival on this weekend. It all started back in the 60's when a half Russian, half Cherokee lady called Ronnie Lazlet organised a childrens carnival, getting a bunch of West Indian guys to play the steel pan. These guys started the day playing a set at a pub, then when they went to the carnival they told the crowd what they were doing. Everyone went along with them. They just decided to head up the street playing and people started coming out of the woodwork, singing and dancing and joining in! [View Full Entry]

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Started working here at C.T.A. around the end of August. Drawing shopping malls again, same as NZ, but much larger scale and all new stuff! Im the jammiest bugger, went from a good wage on High St in Auckland, to an even better wage (especially when you trebble it!) on Kensington High St in London! 150 staff here though, and a bit of a lumbering monster really, like the rest of the country. I swear, the red tape this country love tying around their neck amazes me that they ever colonised any, let alone most of the planet! Got a bit [View Full Entry]

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First weekend I was in town, Nix and Alistair took me to their local club for a night out. Was pretty quiet in there and we got talking to some of the DJs and the door girl and they invited us along to another couple of regular nights they worked. I decided a couple of weekends later to pop along to a gig over in Whitechapel. Nix and Ali werent up for it so off I wandered into the London night! Was a really good night! Got in cheap cause Kristina was on the door, Zaki and Georgia were playing in [View Full Entry]

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So there I was. Phil holding a ticket for me up North, all I needed to do was get myself up there! Grabbed a train on Friday night after work. (Quick aside here: At the train station, first time in my life Ive had to pay for a piss and what a delightful experience! 20p and only one of the turnstiles was working, of the 15 or so urinals, 5 of them were overflowing everytime they flushed, so they had buckets under them! All class!) On the train for an hour and a half, then grabbed the shuttle bus from Stafford [View Full Entry]

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