Blogs from West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 39

Settling in at Langdale has been made relatively easy by Mr.Patell, our Indian landlord. Mr.P as we’ve dubbed him, also owns the local corner store, which conveniently has a liquor license. We are quickly becoming his best clients. He promises to bring around a curry and in return we will cook him a traditional Aussie barbeque. Our body clocks have now adjusted to the time difference, and bouncing out of bed at 4 or 5am is now not as much of a problem. The weather is still extremely cold, although the Dooner purchases, or Duvell’s as they are strangely called over here, provide ample warmth at night. With Grovesy and Jonesy arriving this week the house is now full and deemed as the ultimate bachelor pad, the envy of every fun-loving crim. The house itself is ... read more

Well it's just over a week until I set off and myself and young William have sat and after enjoying the start of Celeb BB (which we believe will be genius), drinking beers, delivered via a vist to the genuinely poorly Wheezy at Jimmy's, we have now set-up my blog. I now have the power to keep you informed of my antics. ... read more

The Good: New Years Eve in Leeds was an absolute blast. We met up with Bridie's friend from camp Rich who had three spare tickets to a night club called Creation - destiny really. So off we went, looking damn fine considering we all did our hair and makeup on a moving train. Primping, straightening, curling, colouring - we did it all. Everyone thought we were mad. All's I'm going to say is, Virgin trains, thanks for having powerpoints. After being given free drinks (yay), free hats, and english flags, the clock counted on down. At the strike of twelve we were dumped with confetti, sang Auld Lang Syne (very loud), waved our flags and generally had a giggle. Robbie Williams Angels was played and the entire floor sang it at the top of their voices ... read more

Well, here's our pre travel and first entry -the adventure starts here! Im sat at my desk at work -I should be finishing up a couple of things and packing up my desk as today's my last day! But hey!! I'm only waiting for our Xmas do this afternoon -and Im determined not to drink at least til we finish the meal! Lets see.... It all started last October, when I decided that I was going to 'drag' Kev to NZ! A few months later we'd got Working Holiday Visas, booked flights and were having job interviews. The house is now up to let, we still havent packed and shipped our stuff and only 12 days to go!! The plan: After spending Xmas seperately in Wales and Northumberland we're meeting back in Leeds on the 28th ... read more

hotel now booked Booked the Grandville Ouro Verde - 2 doubles... Debs is gonna join up with us after all. So Alli and Debs will share a room and me and the Ginga Ninja (Rik) will share the other. Insurance finds the way to my heart ! Having had a heart attack on March 20th 2005 at the ripe old age of 36 (an artery wall gave way... cholestrol and blood pressure were normal.. as was everything else) I'm now on the British heart foundation's web site getting some insurance together... it's not as expensive as I thought it was going to be. I've put the details on here in case anybody in my position wants to use the information. I'll update this and put on the quotes to show which ones are reasonable and which ... read more