Before I knew it, the infamous day had arrived. I’m officially 25! However, I don’t appear to be having a quarter life crisis yet, so I guess ‘so far so good’. I woke up early on Friday (like 5.30am! - perhaps something to do with all the chocolate from the night before) and waited for my family phone call from NZ to wish me happy birthday. I spent the morning opening my cards and presents from various corners of the world, each thing delight to receive. It’s nice to know at least some people haven’t forgotten your existence! :) I made [View Full Entry]

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It seemed to be the week of goodbyes. Brendan went back down to Southampton on Monday and I also booked out trip to Dublin for St Patty’s day <- bring it on!! After work on Tuesday, we all headed over to the Temple WalkAbout to say goodbye to Katie how is heading back to NZ for a couple of months. On Thursday I went to Warwick Avenue tube station to meet my best mate Suz (from Uni) and Matt who have just came back from travelling Europe for a month! and will be staying with us for a couple of days. [View Full Entry]

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Before I knew it was Wednesday and I was on the tubes heading towards Heathrow to meet Leah and her travelling friend Reg. After a long and loud greeting, we had a talkative journey back to Maida Vale and Leah’s new flat. I introduced her to her new flatmate, Irene, and got some dinner from her soon to be favourite takeaway place, the Chinese shop at the end of our road. I took the day off work on Thursday to show Leah the sights of London and teach her how to navigate around the big city. We headed down to Oxford [View Full Entry]

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Our new temporary flat mate, Rob, moved into Leah’s room on Monday night. While we were chatting to him, I missed a phone call from NZ. I gave James a call back, and while I was talking to him I tried to multitask, and didn’t realised that I had stuck a red-ish top in with the rest of my whites (including my new top from Zara), with the washing machine set to a 90 Deg wash. So my clothes came out pink! After work on Tuesday, me and my new neighbour and work colleague, Carlo, went for a walk along the [View Full Entry]

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On the first day back in London I got a text from my flatmate, Irene, to say that our other flatmate, Scot has already moved out (without saying anything), and took all the cooking pots. Great! I made pasta for dinner in the one dodgy fry-pan that he had left and chatted to Irene about what to do about moving out next Friday! - We both haven’t found a flat yet, nor have seen anything we really like. I went to Irene’s work on Thursday to do some flat hunting with her, but still nothing too inspiring. I met Helen, Helen [View Full Entry]

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After big night and only 3 hours sleep, I managed to drag myself out of bed and have breakfast in the hostel canteen before it closed. The whole group had also managed to muster by our scheduled leaving time of 10am. However, our bus driver was running late, and decided to delay our leaving for an hour. We waited around for 11am, thinking ‘I could be in bed right now’, and then we all jumped on the coach and headed out to Stirling. Our first stop was the Wallace Monument, high up on the protruding hill. The monument was built 1869 [View Full Entry]

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We got early on Saturday morning and headed down to Earl’s Court to find our random meeting point down the road from the tube station. Typically, the coach arrived while Helen and I were off getting food, but we were soon on our way up North. We stopped in the pretty region of Cumbria, near the Lake District, for Lunch and arrived at our hostel in Edinburgh in the early evening - 10 hours later. Our room was pretty sweet with all new furnishings. We dumped our stuff then Helen, Klaus, Andy and I when to check out Edinburgh and walked [View Full Entry]

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There is no public transport on Christmas Day so we all headed over to Helen’s flat in Fulham on Christmas Eve to have a bit of a sleepover before Christmas Day. I said ‘Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’ to Irene, who is heading over to Prague and Paris for the festive season. We finished preparing the Christmas decorations around the flat then started watching a Christmas movie on TV while we waited for the others to arrive. We played Cranium, Mafia and a few other games through the afternoon, and then the boys: Josh, Chicken Little (Craig) and their newly [View Full Entry]

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I managed to turn off both of my alarms while still half asleep on Monday morning, so was forced to catch the late train to High Wycombe - a great start to the week. Emily left to go back to Australia on Tuesday, so had a chat with her before heading off to work. The temperature has severely dropped since last week - just as Grant said the London Lite newspaper predicted. Suz later told me that is was only 2 degrees this morning! Suz and Matt came over for dinner that evening, I showed them my new house and we [View Full Entry]

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I bowled up at the train station on Monday morning to find that the train schedule had changed, I assume to the winter time table. I spent lunch time shopping for decorations to Christmasify my desk at work (although no where near up to my usual standard, but I didn’t want to scare my new work colleagues quite yet). Helen, Heloise and Grant came over for dinner on Tuesday night before meeting Matt at Notting Hill to watch the new James Bond movie: Casino Royale. Unfortunately our quests for a ‘coffee’ prior to the movie was short lived due to the [View Full Entry]

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