London Town

Have landed in London... the flight from Singapore was quite good and I basically got on the plane 11pm Singapore time passed over the big dinner on offer with the exception of the desert and a glass of port and after watching a movie (Blades of Glory - corny, but good) I shut down the TV, put on the Qantas pyjamas and went to sleep...

 

I didnt sleep "well" but I got about 4hrs straight at one point and spent the next 2hrs trying to get comfy and listening to easy music... in the end I dug out the PSP from my bag and played around on that... then it was breakfast, a brush of the teeth and time to get changed and begin the descent... easy as.

 

London was drizzling and about 10 degrees when we landed at 4:45am London time... but I have been awake since then, been for a walk around Hyde Park, had a coffee and a French Pastry and am about to catch up with my work colleagues for a morning debrief and another coffee (will need it!) and then its off to the soccer this afternoon to see Chelsea / Fullham.

I will also try to see the NRL Grand Final from here sometime tomorrow morning...

 

All's good!

Singapore - Hot & Humid

Am in Singapore at the moment... very hot and sticky, but at least everywhere indoors has top notch air conditioning.

 

The flight was good, uneventful (which you always want) but even though it was Qantas, everything over the PA was repeated in German because the flight was ongoing to Frankfurt.  Everyone in business class, apart from my colleagues and myself, were German so when the stewardess came to us re dinner etc she started prattling in German... until we politely corrected her.

 

Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsche!

 

Working today has been delayed a bit (hence my posting now) as something has cropped up for some of the meeting delegates, so I have a spare hour to kill...

 

Am flying out tonight at around 11pm local time for London... and will have a weekend to explore there including going to Chelsea vs Fullham in the EPL... am looking forward to that very much!

 

 

Kate's Dance...

As promised, here is Kate's dance...

She did this all by herself... she choreographed it, wrote all the moves out, practiced and got me to truncate the song to a reasonable length.

Then she had to go out and actually perform it to a school hall full of people...

Alot braver than I would have been at her age - even now at my age.

Variety Night...

Well, I am sitting here waiting for the car to take me to the airport... been a very busy week, and I realise I havent posted in a few days.

Adelaide was a nightmare travel wise... because of the international terminal departure, it was customs, queues etc and then I have car hire issues at Adelaide and then the trip back was long and tiring...

But thats another story...

While I have been busy working, the girls performed at the school's variety night... Kate did a solo dance that she choreographed herself, and Brooke partnered with her friend Madi to do the Purple People Eater dance that they learnt at dance class.

Here is Brooke's video (she's on the right) and I will post Kate's once YouTube uploads / approves it.



Here are a few pics as well :)

Lack of posts?!

Sorry dear readers... been a bit overwhelmed recently...

 

Had a good weekend though... Niki bought the kids new toy boxes from K-Mart and they were a timber flat-packed thing that I would have presumed would have been an allen key job...

 

But oh how wrong I was!  They needed screwing together PLUS had to have wooden dowels inserted with glue as well!  Not being the most handy of people, this was not an easy job but after a collective 2hrs I was able to put them together... the screws though were not high quality and I had to resort to hand screwing them in as the drill was simply chewing up the phillips head of the screw no matter how easy I took it....

 

Then I realised that for Kate's (in my haste) I put the spring under the lid upside down... which mean the lid didnt close properly... d'oh.

 

Other than that, I played cricket - we have won on first innings already after bowling out Wenty Leagues for 73 and we're 4/122 at stumps.  I will be missing next week due to my trip, but at least we've got the game in the bag anyway!  Yours truly scored 24 in a rusty innings but I did stick around to hit the winning runs before I was run out going for a third run!  Damn fielder threw it straight over the bails from the boundary!!  Oh well...

 

Kate had a netball picnic / presentation yesterday, so we were out at Glenbrook Park for most of the afternoon before heading back to one of the local school halls for a trophy presentation.  She (along with all the kids) got a nice little trophy, so she was pleased as.

 

I am off to Adelaide tomorrow... will be back in the office Wednesday, but off to Singapore / London on Thursday.  So much to do, so little time!!

Weekend List

'tis Friday and another weekend to look forward to, but I realise that it will be my last weekend before my trip to London...  means I have to get all the things done that need doing....

 

The ensuite tap needs fixing... said I'd do that for Niki, so that will need doing... the lawn needs mowing, the edges need doing but my whipper-snipper is busted... weeding needs to be done as well.

 

On top of that, I have cricket on Saturday and we have Kate's netball club's presentation picnic on Sunday afternoon.  I also have to think about packing and luggage and I will now be in London for 2 weekends either side of the week of work, so casual clothes will be required as well.

 

Need to pull out the passport, buy a new battery for our digital camera, seriously think about getting an iPod for myself (am jealous of Kate!) and remember to pack the charger for the PSP as well!

 

I am supposed to be going to a Bux Night on Saturday night as well, but I will probably give it a miss... just cant afford to be hungover in a ditch somewhere Sunday morning.

 

So that's it... in a nutshell I have written down my whole weekend!

Kindy Sex Club

This article is disturbing on so many levels...

 

Where does a kid get the wherewithal to come up with this?  Is he sitting at home watching porn with the old man?  Does his Mum "work from home" with various male clientele?

 

Obviously charging the kid is not on, but surely something more than "counseling"... where are DOCS in all this?  I'd be raiding that home faster than you can say "future sex offender"!