Our first break...

is currently being planned for the Easter weekend - 2nd to 5th of April. Gives us a good 4 day weekend, and cause I have nothing to do right now, I get to plan it.

We have found....

A pub. As I mentioned earlier we've been doing the rounds of all the local pubs and drinking establishments in walking distance. So far we've been into, or at least observed and discounted, 6 including tonight.

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Job hunting...

Ain't all it's cracked up to be. I'm hammering off heaps of applications, and I've had a couple of agents come back here and there seeming interested, but so far, not-so good. Rhiannon has already started working, so we're not totally bereft of money so far - in fact, we calculated before we left that even if I didn't work, if she got 5 days a week (which is looking pretty likely) then we'd have enough to survive without touching our savings. I'm getting bored though.

So much so, that I applied for a temp, part time IT support role on Gumtree yesterday. It was an.... interesting.... experience.

Our little flat...

So while Rhiannon is off at work, making money so we can eat and all that, i'm sitting at home being a little house wife husband in between hunting for jobs.

I got a little bored today, and decided to create a video of our little unit/apartment/flat/studio/whatever – so you can see what $AUD290 a week gets you in north west London.

Pubs...

I can't beleive we've gone this long, without writing about pubs, and/or beer....

anyway so where we live in Willesden Green, we've counted at least 5 bars or pubs near us. We've had a few drinks in two of them, decided two others are more like sports bar, and thus not worthy of our patronage (:P) and another seems to only open at about 5pm, so we think it's more a bar, and haven't been in there yet.

Ok, I admit it.

I'm kind of addicted to the supermarkets here. They just have so much cool shit, like the ready meals. Or, stuff like single-serve shepards pies for 90p, 3 for 2 pound, stuff like that.
The meat prices are pretty crap, which is basically in line with most of the meat quality, but oh well.

One thing that we haven't been able to find though: Chicken Salt. And, Pasta Salad! i don't know if creamy pasta salad even exists here !


Also, differences:
Chip packet colourings. Blue is plain, green is chicken, purple is salt and vinegar, right?
Oh no.... no.. blue is Cheese and Onion. Orangey-red is original (or, lightly salted). Green is Salt and Vinegar. I haven't really noticed a chicken, or bbq flavour yet. Prawn cocktail flavour is pink though. At least that colour makes sense.

The London Pass

Ok so, London is an expensive city. There's no doubting that. Here's a few prices for amusements and touristy things - per person. And remember to convert backwards, at a rate of about 1:1.6...

The differences between Metro and Tube...

Ok, so here's a bit of a rundown on the differences between Metro, or Metlink, back in Melbourne, and the Tube here. This post could equally be titled "Tube is better than metro because..."

The news came...

We got some uplifting and happy news last night - all went well, and all are well. I'm pleased and glad, but a bit upset we can't be there :(