Again we haven’t done a whole lot this week. Christine is in a school with a one month contract which is great. It’s about an hour out of London, so takes a while to get there and costs a bit on public transport. With our trip to France coming up in about a month, Damien has had no luck finding any accounting work. He has picked up a few days here and there both in schools doing teacher assistant work, and through a temping agency just doing admin roles. Nothing very exciting or well paid but better than sitting around the hostel all day!
After a series of busy weekends, we were both a bit relieved to have nothing much on for a change. Friday night we had dinner in a local pub with an aussie girl and her saffa boyfriend. Damien met her at his teaching course a couple of weeks ago, and turns out they live in the street next to ours. They are both very nice and a bit more familiar with the Paddington area, so were able to show us a couple of less touristy pubs. It was a good night!
After our cooked breakfast on Saturday we headed to the Shepherd Bush Walkabout, a dive of an Australian pub, but it was showing a replay of the St Kilda v Fremantle NAB cup game. It was about 12 hours delayed from the match in Melbourne, but we didn’t know the result, so were very pleased after a couple of hours and a few beers, the Saints won by a handy 70 points. Looks like we may be back there next weekend for the final. I hope everyone in Melbourne is planning on going to the game to cheer, on our behalf!
We are actually close enough to walk home and since the sun was out we strolled home, stopping on the way for coffee and cake! It’s so much nicer in London when the son is out, it get to a balmy 8 degrees Celsius!!!
Christine had an afternoon nap, again on her return to London she is unwell. Then we took it pretty easy, cooked dinner and had drinks at home on Saturday night. Sunday morning we headed back to the Tate Modern, and did another tour of one of the wings. These are always very interesting and give a bit of a story about the artist and the works. On the way home we wandered through Hyde Park, the sun was out but we were frozen. It actually felt like your face was freezing, it was so cold! Another quiet night at home, lots of rubbish tv of course!
After a series of busy weekends, we were both a bit relieved to have nothing much on for a change. Friday night we had dinner in a local pub with an aussie girl and her saffa boyfriend. Damien met her at his teaching course a couple of weeks ago, and turns out they live in the street next to ours. They are both very nice and a bit more familiar with the Paddington area, so were able to show us a couple of less touristy pubs. It was a good night!
After our cooked breakfast on Saturday we headed to the Shepherd Bush Walkabout, a dive of an Australian pub, but it was showing a replay of the St Kilda v Fremantle NAB cup game. It was about 12 hours delayed from the match in Melbourne, but we didn’t know the result, so were very pleased after a couple of hours and a few beers, the Saints won by a handy 70 points. Looks like we may be back there next weekend for the final. I hope everyone in Melbourne is planning on going to the game to cheer, on our behalf!
We are actually close enough to walk home and since the sun was out we strolled home, stopping on the way for coffee and cake! It’s so much nicer in London when the son is out, it get to a balmy 8 degrees Celsius!!!
Christine had an afternoon nap, again on her return to London she is unwell. Then we took it pretty easy, cooked dinner and had drinks at home on Saturday night. Sunday morning we headed back to the Tate Modern, and did another tour of one of the wings. These are always very interesting and give a bit of a story about the artist and the works. On the way home we wandered through Hyde Park, the sun was out but we were frozen. It actually felt like your face was freezing, it was so cold! Another quiet night at home, lots of rubbish tv of course!
tate & tv. i like it!
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