We're still in Sydney, until Sunday this week anyway. If you haven't managed to catch up with us, get in touch. Probably do drinks in Newtown on Thursday night.
I'm actually working in the Sydney office of my employer this week. That way I won't blow the whole three weeks in holidays. Also useful to get some work done here as the developers are available.
Well here's an example of how not to handle ticket sales for a large, high-profile event. Glastonbury tickets just went on sale, which meant getting up at 5am here in Sydney to start trying. It's now 8:45am and I've finally discovered I have some tickets.
I only worked this out, mind, by giving up on their web site and phoning the UK, where I was told I already had tickets. The web site certainly hasn't told me this useful bit of information!
But the good news is, we have Glasto tickets. Woo!
By the time we arrived in Oz, my computer seemed to have lost contact with the outside world. The ADSL it's on might have crashed, but who knows. Major pain in the arse.
If you're in Sydney, you can call me on 02 9879 0308.
Well it was a very long weekend, but we've managed to move house. We're staying with friends in Blackheath until we're back from Oz when we'll look for our own flat.
Computer is off the air until tonight, so no email or Jabber until then.
Holly and I are off to Sydney tomorrow morning for three weeks. If you want to call me, I'll mostly be at my parents place: 02 9879 0308. Should have access to email while I'm there too.
Holly's having a party on her birthday, 8th April, so come along!
Back in London on 19th April.
Wow. The last couple of days it's been dumping down snow. It started yesterday morning when we got up and saw snow everywhere. Then last night, around 17:20, it started really dumping. Probably dropped about an inch in an hour. Then tonight there's been more.
Of course, this being London, the transport has all been screwed up. Took Holly three hours to get home from her new job in South London. I walked. Snow is the only weather capable of getting me off the bike. Icy roads are just too dangerous on two wheels.
We're moving house tonight. It's been a bit of a drama so we're technically homeless for the next month or so.
We had found a brilliant place in Baron's Court, but that fell through from the landlord's dodginess. We'd already given notice on our place in Willesden so now we've had to make alternative plans.
We'll be staying at John and Anne's in Blackheath for the next week, moving house tonight and tomorrow. Then we're off to Oz for three weeks. When we get back, we'll start looking for a new place to live.
If anyone knows of any places going in the Barons Court, Earls Court, West Kensington, Shepherds Bush or North Fulham areas, lettuce know.
Well if you've been following this, I've been brewing some beer recently. I now have something like 60 litres of beer conditioning, and another 20 litres fermenting at the moment.
The first two batches are just now getting to the drinkable stage. They'll continue to improve over time but they're pretty fine right about now. Yum!
On Monday night I put another batch into a newly aquired keg. Should be a nice little treat for Christmas, I think. It's a nice dark one called Norfolk Nog. Yummy!
If you're reading this and I missed you from the mass mailout of our xmas card, I apologise. Here's what you should have received.
Well the beer's in the bucket and on its way. Looks good! Mmmmm.
