Back home when I didn’t blog for a while, it probably meant I wasn’t doing much that was interesting enough to blog about. Not so much the case here.
Highlights of the last month include…
- Get along to a Jack the Ripper tour, which was a very cool tour of late 19th Century London, only slightly marred by the gruesome late 19th Century photographs of dead prostitutes with their noses cut off and their livers placed on the bedside table. Ok, more than slightly.
- Listen to a public lecture by KAL (the Economist editorial cartoonist) and Henry Naylor (creator of Headcases and one of the writers of Spitting Image back in the day) about political satire, how it’s evolved over the past few decades, and how to draw a George Bush cartoon.
- Take a train to Cambridge for a couple of days for a training and team building course for work. Which was going well, until I stayed out too late, failed to wake up, and slept through the morning training session. Bad temp, bad.
- Head up to Leeds to go on a whirlwind tour of the Yorkshire countryside. Damn it’s beautiful up there. Highlights included various ruined abbeys (thanks, Henry VIII) and the Captain Cook museum at Whitby (he sailed to many, many places).
- Fly over to Barcelona to catch up with Mum, Don and Angel, and explore a city that everyone raves about. And with good cause, it is rather super, and I am now similarly raving.
- Move into my cousin’s place on Buckingham Palace Road. (And yes, we can see Buckingham Palace from our place. Neat.)
- Go to many pubs and restaurants, and perhaps a party or two.
I was going to wax lyrical about many of things in individual posts (you should see the drafts), but right now I don’t think it’s in me. So I’m gong to leave the list as is, which is somewhat lame I agree, and make a better attempt at writing about London life at some stage in the near future.
Oh, and Tim, they’re opening an Oporto restaurant at the food court in Victoria Station. See? I am sorting out the place for your “imminent” arrival.
That’s good. They closed the one near my house, and replaced it with a Nando’s, which while also good, is not as good. Well maybe it is, but there are Nando’s everywhere in Melbourne.
On the upside it seems Oporto now belong to the Coke side of life, having left Pepsi far behind.
I’m struggling with your use of present (or is it even sort of a future?) tense for past events. Went, listened, took, headed, flew, moved, went!
Crikey. That seems more than a little awesome.
Christchurch eagerly awaits word as to whether London fell for ‘pulling a Mason’ to the same extent it did.
Madoo – I see what you mean. The first draft made more sense, but I changed that intro line and it must have thrown the tenses off. Ah well
Dave – Yup, is a lot to do here (forgot to even mention the NFL game at Wembley – whyich was also excellent). Er, not entirely sure what ‘pulling a Mason’ refers to, but imagine that London has not, so far, fallen to it.
Tim – Wasn’t Oporto always coke?
imminent?? IMMINENT? took tim 3 years to get to Melbourne, in all fairness.
Nic, see you @ Xmas? there 23-30 Dec. You can do the J the R tour with me as well!!