It's at least 4 weeks since my last instalment sorry… In fairness to my blog slackness, it has been a pretty busy 4 weeks so hopefully there'll be enough to keep you at least slightly entertained for a while. Job I am now a barmaid! Since my last update, I have secured a job at Ye Olde George Inn, a small but busy pub in Christchurch (which I might add for the benefit of Australians that haven't experienced country pubs in England, allows dogs to come in...

For this submission, I am going to try a diary type entry - while it might work this week, I'm sure it won't last long as there will be days when we do b***** all so there'll be nothing that will hold your interest!! Monday 25/2/08 Today we wandered around the streets of Christchurch, the 'suburb' where I worked in 1999. Monday's are market days on the high street, but it's no Camden market - rather it's a blue/purple rinse market, as Christchurch has an extrem...

So, after a few months of pretty much no planning, Nige and I are finally here in the United Kingdom.I've never been great at keeping a journal/diary, but I'm hoping to get onto this blog fairly regularly to keep you up-to-date. And so it begins … We'd chosen to fly to the UK with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates.The journey from Sydney to London (coach and planes) went quite well, except that Nige's entertainment system ...