London Packing Up 8th - 11th June 2010 So we had 4 days to pack up almost 2 years of our life and move out of London. We spent the first day just catching up on Egypt; basically washing and facebooking Matt and Jodie came over throughout the week to pack boxes that we are shipping back to Aus -it's amazing how much you really can accumulate in 2 years (What's also surprising is how little we've managed to live with - can't wait to get home and and play w...

Last Days of the UK April - May 2010 This was really our last chance to earn some cash to fund our big summer adventure (and to get back what we'd lost from our volcano trip), so we were dedicated to doing nothing and working. We were concerned that being the last term of the academic year, we were going to be hard pressed to get some work. Luckily for me I had been booked for the full 6 weeks, and a challenging (then again, all London schools are challen...

Week 2 - UK countryside & Final Days London 7th March - 14th March Right this entry will definitely be brief, hopefully (I seem to say this lots but it's never true), as I have many more entries still to catch up on!!! Sunday: Dan took his mummy to the British Museum. I decided to stay at home and avoid dealing with the Tube, which had many 'planned engineering works' this weekend. By all accounts they had a lovely day looking at lots of old thi...

Cheryl's Visit - Partie Une London 26th Feb - 2nd March I decided for this three-part installment, that I would write a much more condensed, easy to read story…. Hopefully!! So Friday afternoon we sat around at Heathrow for an hour or so waiting for Dan's mum to make her way out to meet us. After some group hugging in the arrivals hall we made the short train journey back to our home where we dropped our bags before heading down to the local pub for di...

London January 2010 We haven't really done a great deal this month. We've just tried to hang at home as much as possible, to save enough to go on more exciting trips. Luckily we've both picked up a fair bit of work, Dan's not actually managed to have a day off since we got back from Edinburgh. I did the first two weeks of the term at the most amazing private school just a few stops up the tube line in Hammersmith. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman are both ex-st...