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Published: December 7th 2007
Hi everyone!
It’s been a while hey?! So prepare yourself for a long one!!
Sorry about that, I do actually have an excuse for why I haven't done a blog for so long! About two weeks after we moved in another girl moved out and she had the internet in her name so unfortunately it went with her to her new place. And it has taken this long for us to get connected again! Actually, at the very moment I write this it is still not quite connected and one of our housemates is calling Orange daily to find out which friggin password we need to use to connect! Turns out it’s in the email they send to your Orange email address! Haha...how clever is that when you don’t have the internet connected yet?! Der!
So what have we been up to since I last posted a blog over two months ago? Well...to tell you the truth it doesn’t seem like a hell of a lot, but at the same time I feel like we have just been go go go every weekend!
Well to start off with, not long after I wrote, it was my first
birthday in London! And to top it off, it was Mark’s (Jackie’s boyfriend/housemate) birthday the weekend before and Alex’s (housemate) birthday two days before mine and so we had two weekends of fairly big nights out and lots of fun within our little household!
For all our birthday’s we stuck to the good ol’ South West side of London, and to be truthful, actually did not put a foot over the border of Clapham. Was great...no long night buses all the way from the city, and bars bars everywhere! Mark’s b’day fell on the weekend of the Rugby World Cup Final and so after the boys had watched the game, (time Jackie & I spent polishing off the last ‘little’ bit of Vodka left in a bottle) we spent the night at a bar called The People’s Republic, and having shown the game beforehand, the bar was absolutely packed! Packed as in, at one stage Jimmy began the table top dancing movement, and before long there were a number of people on tables/couches...but when you decided you’d had enough and wanted to get down, you realised your place on the floor had been filled. So, heck...we stayed on the
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Some of the residents of 62 Sisters Avtabletops!! 😉
The next day was interesting, with me attempting my first haircut...and if anyone’s seen photos of Jimmy in the past couple of months will realise that I am actually the worst hairdresser in the world!!! I TOTALLY screwed up the length of the back with Jimmy telling me they ‘just do a number 3 on the back usually’. So picking up a 3mm guard and taking my first step with the clippers, realised immediately, that clearly a number 3 did not mean 3mm!!!!! God, I tried my best to even it up and fix it, and at one stage told him it was done and to go have a shower, but when he came back out we realised just how totally screwed it was and so decided it all had to come off!! Aw, sorry Jimmy!! xx
It’s grown back a fair bit now...but he’s actually mentioned about it being time for another haircut soon! I can’t believe he’s going to trust me again - I sure wouldn’t!
So Jackie made Mark a birthday cake which was half cooked but still delicious. A new invention really...was like a cake/brownie/fudge thing! Yum! But the best part
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Nice sombreros! was taht when Jimmy and I had gone down to the supermarket and picked up some ingredients for Jackie to bake hre cake, we found some ‘relighting’ candles. We were like little kids! They are the coolest things! You light them, you blow them out, then they just spark back up into a flame again!! Haha...Mark actually blew them out about four times before he realised what was going on!
So the next weekend was my birthday and I invited a random mix of people that we had met travelling, cousins, new housemates, old friends - it was great - out to a Mexican restaurant just around the corner. It was a good night and the restaurant was great, decking us all out in sombreros and giving us our first rounds of margaritas on the house! Meanwhile, some of my ‘friends’ weren’t so kind to me, with Mark and Alex buying me a birthday drink which was a shot of tequila! It was HUGE and I didn’t think I could do it so I sat there for a while psyching myself up. When I finally got around to it, everyone was laughing and Jackie kindly informed me (once the
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Travel buddies - Leanne, Paul, Anna, Nicola & Ali glass was empty!) that there was a worm in the tequila! Can you believe that?! I drank a worm!!!!! How mean is that?!?! The funniest part everyone said was that I didn’t see it in there as I’d looked in the shot glass/tumbler and all, and still had not seen it! Ewwwwwww!!!!!!!!! Can’t believe the Mexicans! Weirdos putting worms in their drinks!
So we went into Clapham and followed dinner with some quiet drinks in a pub, then into The People’s Republic again for some shameless dancing! Once it closed at 3:30am (or something like that) everyone that was left decided they weren’t ready to go home and so the party continued at our place. Gotta love double brick walls and double glazing...as none of our housemates even heard us and we were there from about 4-6am just talking at what I guess would be a bit louder than a whisper! Really good night and a good birthday!
The following day we spent showing Dave the sights of London, and true to English form, it was quite the miserable day! But we did a pretty good effort of London in a day, fitting in Buckingham Palace, Houses of
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Me & Jackie Parliament/Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, St James’ Park, London Eye and Piccadilly Circus. And lucky too...because although Dave had come over with the intention of moving into our place and setting up shop in the UK, he was on a plane on the Wednesday with a change of heart! Oh well, at least he saw some of London before he left!
The next week saw me involved, through work, in quite a big classic car auction at Battersea Park None other than Mr Bernie Ecclestone, had decided to auction off some 30 cars at the sale, along with a couple of other guy’s collections. The main attraction was a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster. It actually looked like it was made of pure silver, and ended up selling for £3.9 million!!!! Doesn’t that make you sick! In fact what made me even more sick, is the fact that Bernie had not only not even driven any of the cars he was selling, but hadn’t even sat in any of them!
Anyway, being involved with that was a bit of fun, with the preview the night before the
auction being a ‘Roaring 20s’ theme and so I had the task of being told the day before, and with the one dress I had brought with me in my backpack that had trekked across the globe of working out a 20s costume. Somehow I ‘kinda’ pulled it off with a last minute sequined head band with feather!
We then got introduced to the infamous Guy Fawkes Day and all the excitement of fireworks parties and the like. We watched a good display on Clapham Common, and also ended up going to not one but two fireworks parties! Jimmy had an unfortunate accident at our first party when a rocket exploded before it had actually launched and scorched a hole in his t-shirt. He was not a happy chappy, but at least he, or anyone else at the party was hurt! And that my friends, is why fireworks are banned in Australia! 😊
The following weekend Laura and Samar threw a killer house party, with DJ decks and lighting set up around the house! Pretty good effort hey?! Was a fun night and then the following day was completely awesome! Jimmy, Jackie, Mark and I had scored ourselves
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Nice singing Dave! some (bloody expensive) tickets to watch Chelsea vs Everton at Stamford Bridge, sitting with the Everton supporters in the away section. It was so much fun and close to the best result we could have asked for, with Everton getting trampled on and down 0-1, then our very own Timmy Cahill, in the 88th minute, kicked a ripper of a goal - scissor kick over his head into the back of the net!!! It was just so exciting! I would so love to go to another game soon, and with Everton playing West Ham next week it is very tempting as then I could also watch Lucas Neill, but at £45 a ticket, it’s not something we’ll be doing regularly unfortunately! 😞
That night we threw our first ‘dinner party’...if you can call it that, for my cousins who are living here in London, as Eugene had asked me to make my mum’s famous family BBQ staple - Rice Salad! Well...what in the hell do you put with rice salad?! So we cooked up a nice roast chicken from M&S with baked spuds and salads, and it really was like a good ol’ Aussie Barbie. Inside. And out of
the oven. Oh well...similar anyway!
Next weekend we made the bus journey up to Derbyshire to visit Jimmy’s relatives and it was so nice to get out of London for the weekend. We visited a cavern where they mined a rock called Blue John, went to a cute little town in the Peak District called Castleton, went to Bolsover Castle, and went to our second fireworks party. Was a very nice weekend away, and three days just went so damn quickly and before we knew it we were back on the bus on our way to London, and work. 😞 And it snowed most of the way home!
So a couple of weekends ago we had our trip to Berlin which was part for Laura’s birthday, and part because it was basically free!! £18 return airfares...£18! It was a brilliant weekend! There was a total of 15 of us all together, and although we’d only met a lot of them only a couple of times, and others not at all...it was so much fun and they were a great bunch of people to go away with.
It was cold, as we had predicted, but I was expecting
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Back at the house worse, so it wasn’t too bad. The worst was doing the walking tour, as we were outside for about 4hrs. And so even if you’re only a little bit cold outside, once you stand out there for that long, you’re FREEZING!! So it was a bit of sightseeing, a bit of culture (yes, we even visited some museums), totally shopping for some people, and a lot of partying for everyone. Awesome fun, and although Jimmy and I had already been to Berlin it is still an amazing place to go with just so much history. Loved it!
So last week was a recovery weekend with Jimmy and I doing absolutely nothing all weekend, except for a quick venture out in the pouring rain on Sunday to do some Christmas shopping. It was great, and now that I’ve put in writing what we have been up to, I suppose we have been go go go after all haven’t we?! And so we deserved to sit at home on Saturday night and watch The X-Factor! 😊
Tonight we are throwing our first house party, for no particular reason at all. Hope it all goes ok and our house doesn’t
London Sightseeing
Jimmy & Dave out the front of Buckingham Palace get too trashed! I love the fact that all our bedrooms have locks on the doors, as ours will be locked all night and then we just don’t have to worry.
Hopefully the wind and rain stay away though! Last night we put up a tarp in case it did rain, but by this morning, with gale force winds blowing last night, two corners had ripped! Oops!
Tomorrow night/Sunday morning we will be at a small pub in South Wimbledon watching the Ricky Hatton vs Floyd Mayweather fight at 3/4am, and then Sunday we are planning to go ice skating if we can get out of bed!! Big weekend once again!
With work nearly over for the year; I finish on the 19th, it’s a real reminder that Christmas is nearly here! Only 18 more sleeps! We are heading up to Preston for Christmas and will be staying with his Grandma and spending the time with his other relatives also. It will be nice spending the time with family of some sort, as it is going to be very strange having a first Christmas away from home.
Then on the 30th we are back to London
for New Years, with our Hogmanay plans canned after we woke up to the fact we would end up spending an absolutely ridiculous amount of money on only three nights in a city we have already visited! We were just about to pay £180 each for three night’s accommodation in a backpackers...until we went, ah, what in the hell are we thinking?!
So, now, instead of spending the money on that, we are talking about a short getaway in Jan/Feb to somewhere like Morocco or Tunisia or Egypt. How exciting!! I will keep you updated.
So that’s all for the time being. Wishing a Merry Christmas to you all and we’ll be thinking of everyone over this time. Send us presents if you’re feeling generous...hehe, just kidding...or just send us an email letting us know what’s going on back home.
Love to you all and I hope you have a great summer, (awwww...summer...so jealous!!) Christmas and New Years!
Speak to you all soon,
Loz & Jimmy
xoxo
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