Blogs from Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

Finally... 42 weeks 1 day and 4 1/2 hours after being in Rio de Janeiro, Mattias was born in Guildford, England on Saturday 22nd August. Here are some pictures of his first week. ... read more

That’s it...our time in Guildford is over (except for Daniel who has to go back to collect his bike). It’s kind-of sad to leave as we have really enjoyed our time over here, and could happily stay (for a while longer), but at the same time we are looking forward to coming home to see our family and friends, and coming back to the familiarity of NZ with our house, and our things around us. The week was rather uneventful, I again did no work, and Daniel did lots of work. I made some lollie cake for our office shouts, along with getting other NZ food - crunchie bars, pineapple lumps, jaffas and the like. Daniel’s workmates were sad to see him go and offered him a full-time job there, several times!! They even took him, ... read more

Hi all, Next weekend’s update... On Saturday morning Auntie Margareth and Uncle Albert arrived from Holland to spend a few days with us. We picked them up from Gatwick and spent the weekend doing touristy things. On Saturday we spent the day looking around Guildford. We gave them our own walking tour, since the free ones they held on Sunday aren’t held over the Autumn/Winter period. After seeing the sights - the castle, the main road, the two Alice in Wonderland sculptures, the river etc, we went down to my work and I showed them around. On Sunday we went into London. We had a good look around the free part of the Westminster Abbey - it’s so huge! And even heard the organ playing through the walls as there was a service going on. We ... read more

Another weekend has flown by, only 10 more weekends before we’re back again! This was our first full weekend with company (other then each other of course)! And Mum and Dad seem to have brought the nice weather with them. Daniel wanted to tie them up and keep them here in order for the nice weather to carry on, but unfortunately, the weather knew they were planning on leaving so started raining on their last day here. Only 15 minutes of rain then, but now, since they’ve left, we have another day of rain again! :( Anyway, enough about weather, here’s what we’ve been up to: Friday: Today I went to work, knowing that everyone else in the audit team were going on a high-ropes course in the afternoon, but since I hadn’t been invited, I ... read more

We survived our first week here in England. And our 9 out of 10 days of rain. And our jackets have never been used so much before! My work is going well so far. I still haven’t done any actual auditing work, but that’s OK, at least I’ve got other work to do. Daniel is still looking for a job. The area is not really industrial, so he’s having to look outside our town. Hopefully he’ll find something soon as it’s gets a bit frustrating for him. Although I’m quite enjoying having a house husband and getting my dinner cooked for me every night! Daniel bought a bike. It’s orange and it’s steel and that’s about all I know. Last weekend we didn’t do too much on the Saturday, as it was raining, again. But on ... read more