It is Tuesday. We are leaving for Cornwall on Thursday, and the thought of getting even further behind in this travelog has spurred me to update the site. As it is late and these things always seem to take longer than expected I will keep the witty observations on life to a minimum and the …
Matt & Donna Leave
Well, once again we find ourselves alone in a strange city. Not that strange really after a year and a half but still just as interesting. As I write I imagine Matt and Donna must be nearing Brisbane. I can imagine how they must be feeling – like shit. I wonder what Virgin will make …
Ireland
The date is August 2000 and you are awake far too early and walking down Spencer rd, Acton… The plan was to walk to the minicab at Crown St and get a 5 min cab ride to Northfields Tube to catch the first tube to Heathrow for our 6.50 flight. This would have worked fine, …
Happy New Year
Matt and Donna joined Sarah at our house for New year’s eve. I know I haven’t published interiors yet but our place is a very small 1 bedroom flat. Not really designed for five adults to share comfortably. However, despite the slightly cramped conditions we enjoyed a quiet night in (compared to last year’s nearly …
Venice
White Christmas Almost. It snowed in London Yesterday for the first time in 4 years, narrowly missing Christmas day. Kathryn and Sarah were still at Lodge Farm; I had come up to London on Wednesday. After some hesitation I decided to brave the freezing (literally!) weather and ride through the snow to work. Hyde Park …
How not to buy a laptop
I’m back Hmmm, where to start??? Most of you who I know will already have received an e-mail from me breifly explaining my absence. So much has happened since the last update in August (!) We have been to Venice Ireland and Scotland. We have moved house, I have started conducting lessons and Kathryn siniging …
Glyndebourne
On Sunday we went to Glyndebourne. Now there is a unique experience. For those of you who don’t know, Glyndebourne is a very strange and special institution in England. It is an opera festival. It started back in 1934 when an unfeasably rich man by the name of John Christie decided his wife Audrey (an …
Wales
Well, where to start? It’s been a very long time since I could sit down and update the site. We have done a lot in the six months since then. First we went to Wales in March. I won’t go into detail here but it involved hiring a car and driving around pretty much all …
Moving House
We have finally found a place to live. After many hours and miles walking the cold, dark streets of London, Kathryn and I have found a place at Acton, West London. Click here for a map view of our street, Spencer St. It is a one bedroom flat on the lower-ground floor of a Victorian …
Raining Indoors
Last Friday the roof exploded. It was my day off (the last I would get for another six days) and I had planned to sleep in before going to look at flats in a relaxing kind of way. This was not to be. I was woken by Kathryn at 7:30am when she informed me of …