On Sunday morning I was very much still fast asleep when Dad arrived from Heathrow airport. I think we were both pretty surprised about that, being the uber morning person that I am. For one of the rare times in my life I actually experienced being woken from a dream by an external noise, & found it most unpleasant. No wonder people who actually sleep until their alarms go off hate waiting up to an alarm! Still, aside from the groggy confusion I was VERY ha...

On Saturday morning I was determined to stay in bed for as long as I possibly could! I will train my body to sleep in damnit! I think I made it til 9:30…not bad really. And I reckon I could've probably stuck it out longer but I was afraid I'd miss the breakfast window at the pub downstairs & on that particular occasion food trumped sleep! When I did emerge downstairs all the staff were wearing all black with masks of some guys face…apparently it was the...

On Friday morning I went to explore Oxford street & spent a good hour or so in Selfridges marveling at things like the giant Candy section with many, MANY giant tubes of Jelly Belly jelly beans in every flavour imaginable. I bought a few little things (on a budget, you see :P) & got one of the bright yellow Selfridges bags for my precious purchases. I stopped by the hostel around lunch time to drop a few things off & power nap it up before meeting K...

On Thursday I had to brave Bikram by myself after Kelly got called in to nanny a couple of kids for the day (yay!). I had by far the scariest instructor so far…well, OK, not exactly scary per say…just kinda intense. And because it was a small class she made everyone move right down to the front & then learned all our names so she could call us out & tell each & every person what they were doing wrong. Yikes! Fortunately this was perfectly remedi...

On Wednesday I went out to Haywards Heath to see an old family friend of ours, Julia, who used to babysit me when I was younger (and whom my Mum used to babysit when Juls was little!). She moved over to London from Perth about 10 years ago, never intending to stay for more than a couple of years, but as the story so often goes she met a lovely Welshman (Gareth), married him, & has been living here ever since! She has just recently given birth to her first l...