March 23, 2004
Comments fixed
Apologies to those people who tried to leave comments over the last few days but found that they were unable to do so. We have a comment - spam filter that filters out junk/spam comments to keep the website clean of that type of stuff, and unfortunately it was configured slightly incorrectly.
I have now fixed it and it should be running great, so you can now leave comments again.
March 20, 2004
Marguerite in Japan
Hey, just a note to say that Sarah's friend Marguerite, who recently moved to Japan to teach english, is now blogging.
Although she doesn't have a link to it on her main page, her RSS feed is here. Subscribe to it in your favorite aggregator, or mine.
Visiting the Aussies (and Ideal Home Show)
Sarah and I spent the day in London.
Out aim was to show Sarah where I work and to visit the Australia Shop. This place was cool. Upstairs there was standard touristy stuff, Australian flags, kangaroo toys and corny stuff like that. Downstairs however, is a goldmine of Australian food and beverage. Everything from VB to Kraft Peanut butter. From Allens Snakes Alive to Nappi-san. All the stuff an ex-pat aussie needs to stay sane!
Due to the astronomical prices we only came away with a few items.
1 x Pack Lifesavers (£0.75 or so)
1 x Small Pack Twisties (£1.20)
1 x Vita-weet original (about £2.50)
1 x Arnotts Pizza Shapes (about £2.50)
1 x Arnotts Tim Tams (£2.95)
All up it ended up being about £8.95. Yes, thats over $AUD 20.00 for those items!! It _is_ worth it though.
After visiting the Aussies we decided to visit the Yanks, and had lunch in TGI Fridays, also located in Covent Garden. There are a large amount of ex-pat stores, bars and restaurants around Covent Garden, but a quick walk through The Walkabout Inn and we knew we didn't want to have lunch there.
After this it was time to go to the Ideal Homes Show in the Earls Court Convention Center. The size of this convention center boggles the mind. No convention center in Australia comes close, except maybe the new unfinished one in Perth. Although the show contained everything to do with homes we were specifically looking for potential furniture now that our sofas are arriving tomorrow. Raft furniture really stood out from the crowd. They make tables, chairs, ottomans, and more all from reclaimed (ie, pre-used) timber, and they can provide a range of stained finishes to suit the color you need. Best of all, their prices are very reasonable compared to some of the extortionist prices charged by other companies.
I'll post some photocam pictures of the sofas when they arrive tomorrow.
over and out.
March 09, 2004
Weather, more snow?
Well its trying to snow at the moment. It started about 3 hours ago when walking home from the train station. Well I say snow, but it was more sleet, half snow, half hail, and very cold. Its tried again a few times in the last 3 hours, but popping my head out the curtains a few minutes ago and a couple of cars are starting to get a light coating of white.
It's quiet around here with Sarah off in Italy. Getting home to a dark house, but at least the central heating is warming it up nicely for my step from outside.
Anyway, off to bed for me. Got a 3 degree morning to enjoy tomorrow morning, mayaswell make the most of a warm bed.
March 06, 2004
Travel Update
I forgot to mention this earlier but a travel update is needed.
Today (Saturday March 6th) Sarah has taken off for a week spent with family and friends in Milan / Cremona, Italy. She will be getting back next Saturday 13th March.
Lets hope she takes some good photo's on her new camera phone. Hopefully it won't be to much longer until the insurance money comes through for my stolen camera and I can get back to taking proper photo's, I'm really missing a good camera.