It's a small world ... take2

Yes the song comes to mind again ... but more about that later. Last weekend we went to Notting Hill to have a look at the market there that Pamela said had some great fruit and veg. That is where I bought these lovely cherries. So I thought I'd put them on just to make everyone at home jealous. They where yummy ... hehehe ... anyway enough of that now.

I managed to find yet another school friend here in London (Chrisna nou is dit nog net jy wat moet kom :o) We went for drinks today at the Queen Mary pub. Very nice ... if the alkohol starts messing with the balance you can blame it on the swaying of the boat ... fun fun fun ... anyway on the photo from left to right is Carin, Liesl and me. Liefie showed up later and played paparazzi for us. We had lot of fun catching up considering we haven't seen Carin in 5 years. Hopefully the start of many more.

On our way home we stopped to admire some of the sites considering that it was a nice day and all. Stopped at the needle that has been brought there all the way from Egypt ... no comment on that one ... and posed with a Sphinx. There is a nice view of London eye.











We stopped at Tower Hill so I could take some panos and had some nice ice cream sitting in the shade in Trinity Park.I also finally got my pano of the Tower of London before we went home.
Now I'm listening to Hendrik playing car games on the tv ... ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Before I go here are some stunning sunset photos that Hendrik took the other day.

Thats all for now
L8r
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Founders Arms - My 1st pub lunch

So since I have been gone for so long ... here is what we have been up to. Sunday two weeks ago Hendrik tells me to put on comfy shoes we are going out, so I obey. We left the flat at 19:30, the sun goes down fairly late here now so it was still sunny and very very hot. On the way I had to say hi to my bunnies (not really mine but I see them every time I go to the station and they are soooo cute).

We got off the train at London Bridge and walked in some general direction me having no clue where we were going. We saw this nice church on the way ... sorry have no idea what it is called. We also found the remains of Winchester Palace ... it was kinda arb ... finding half a building between the other modern buildings but got some nice pics though ... including my arty photo

We finally reached the Founders Arms ... one of the pubs that Hendrik and the guys from work goes to for lunch on sunny friday's. The food there is fabulous and we had very nice burgers and chips and of course a pint ... you cant go to the pub and not have a pint ... hehehe ... so we had a nice supper and watched the sun set ... very nice ... then "discovered" that Southwark station was actually closer so we walked there and crossed the Blackfriars Bridge where I took a pano because I can and the sunset was nice.

That's all for now more updates later
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Our Flat

Yes we are officially moved in for about a month now and we are extremely happy in the new place. The view is absolutely stunning. Wel as promised here are some pics of the new place.

Well this is our room ... wel the clean part of it just so mommy can see our bed. When you walk out of the room and turn left you get the passage to the rest of the flat.

The first door is a storage closet, the second is the kitchen that I am happy to say is always nice and clean and it is not always me that has to clean it ... bliss.

The third door is our bathroom that we will have to share with the fourth person that moves is (Pamela has a ensuite bathroom).

Pamela is a Skottish girl that moves into the flat a week after us. We get along well so that is a big bonus. The third room isn't rented yet.

If you turn right out of our room you get the lounge/dining room (just click on the small pictures and it will open a bigger version ... for those that didn't know I have been experimenting with creating panoramic views)The best part is the view the pics are taken during the day and when we had the full moon.
Pretty isn't it ... well I'm back so hopefully more blogging soon.
L8r
Panthera

I like to move it move it

Well things are certainly looking up ... I have a Reception job lasting about 2 months maybe longer ... we have found a very nice apartment ... (photo from same apartment block but not our apartment) pictures to follow when we have moved in ;o) Talking about moving ... that will happen on Sunday with the signing of the contracts ... but yeah we have a nice new place to live ... with a stunning view from the seventh floor. And we will only be sharing with two other people.

So unfortunately I will be going offline for a short while :o( But I will be back with pictures ...

L8r
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Life or something like it

I have an urge to blog at the moment and I dont really know why. Some people say its easier writing things down than actually telling another person how you feel. I's softly raining outside ... for the first time in a fairly sunny week. omething to be grateful for I guess considering its a 10 min walk from the station to work. Rainy weather always tends to make me a little PB so if you are bored reading this I appologise ... it's been a long week.

Long but good ... it felt good getting out of the house and working ... earning your keep so to say ... you know what they say about idle hands ... but it felt good ... having some interaction with other human beings not just sitting at home looking for work ... it gets lonely and depressing. It was nice learning new things and mastering them.

Hopefully something else will come along soon ... I hate the feeling of spunging of everyone, and I like the freedom of saying to Zod lets go out for coffee after work. I like going to bed and feeling like I deserve the sleep. It's funny how everything comes full circle. In my 1st year of varsity I only slept maybe 3 hours a night during the week promising myself that I can sleep the weekend and rest when I finish varsity ... so for four months I rested and the last week I've been back onthe promise of you can sleep late this weekend ... granted I now sleep 7 hours instead of 3 but you get the picture.

Insomnia isn't as much a problem anymore ... but now I have the dreams ... but I'm not going to get into that ... I'm starting to bore my fans :o)

So enough of that for now.
L8r
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First day

So for those of you that don't know ... I got a temporary job this week doing front house reception for a coffee and tea company in south London. The picture is me on Tuesday before work ... note the very nervous half smile. The other photo is of my very pretty new bling watch ... a gift from Zod that we went to go buy on Sunday. Thank you baby.

I started yesterday ... and literally like they say ... hit the ground running. I had a quick crash course on how the switchboard works ... the posting system ... what a nightmare ... and an overall figure it out from the notes left by the reception. What a day ... especially if you where so nervous the night before that you had almost no sleep ... seems that Zod and I project onto each other I had almost no sleep the day before he started working ... and vice versa.

So being tired and being run ragged literally dropped dead when I got home last night. Today though went much better, got the switchboad sorted, the post and DHL as well ... ordering taxi's ... yebo (when thy can actually decide when they want to leave) ... need some work on the lunch ordering ... but got the email system down.

So when ever you do reception ... here are some tips ... there are two types of DHL ... red which is international and blue is domestic. Food ... order a long time before ... find out who still works at the company ... oh boy ... I have a nice list of people who do work there and their extentions ... thanks to the foresight of the receptionist ... she is a star ... anyway enough for now ... just an update on whats what.

L8r
P

Spring has sprung

Yip spring has finally sprung on the Island :o) At least the flower believe so and the weather is a bit warmer. The kindergarden has also left for home for a month so peace and quiet :o) So anyway what have we been up to. Well we are in that part of the year with lots and lots of ... as they call them bank holiday's.

So on Sonday we decided to go to Greenwich market, it was a lot of fun with so many interseting things. The photos are a bit smaller as there are a lot of them but if you click on the photo it will open a bigger version. There was the nicest looking bread and flavoured coffee, lots and lots of bling and leather jackets. One of our favourites were the piggy bank shop. There was a piggy for everyone and they where so cute. The best was the little carboard sign saying that to help with the fight against piggy smashing each piggy has a stopper at the bottom. It was so cute.

























After we had been around the market we bought something to eat an walked around a bit. When we walked past the Cutty sark we saw this little girl. She had obviously come from church, she had her sunday dress with the stockings and the little white jersey ... playing on the skateboard ... klink bekend né mammy?

On our way home we took a detour and walked home along the channels. There are signs of spring everywhere the swans are nesting ... for those who did not know they are protected here. There were also lots of flowers so as I promised my mommy here are some pics just to make the people going into winter now a bit yealous. Spring has always been my favourite season :o)

Enough for now.

L8r
Panthera

Catch up

Ok so lets try this again shall we ... to all my fans ... however little there may be I appologise for not updating sooner ... I tried on Tuesday but due to slowness of the internet (due to the rest of the houses insatiable need for porn ... I'm not going to explain you cant make me) I decided to give up before I permaently damaged my poor notebook.

Anyway so last weekend a good friend of mine from school, JF decided to come visit me before the army sends him off on some mission ... dont know the details ... anyway ... he arrived on friday and we decided to drag Liesl along, since we had not been out together since matric and decided to go to Nando's. Oodles and oodles of fun some hot some not ... me I'm a sissy when it comes to hot stuff so I had lemon and herb :o) Was cool and the food was good.

Afterwards we decided to go see a movie ... ice age 2 ... me being the animation queen and all and JF also being quite keen to go we went off to cine world to go see. Got there and got the answer that ice age was a kiddies movie and only showing during the day ... bummer and what about the big kids ... decided we would go the next day. Walked around and found a nice pub called the Cat and Canary and had a drink and did some catch up ... realized just how much trouble we got up to in school ... and I always thought I was the good girl.



Saturday was one of the most beautiful sunny days I've seen since we got here. *sigh* and it hasn't been since ... anyway we slept late as is usual on a Saturday then JF decided I had to be initiated in the joy of a pub lunch ... so we set off, the DLR was not working so we decided to walk ... being that it was a nice day and all. Did not find a pub that served lunch in our area so at Canary Wharf we decided to educate him in Starbucks coffee and just had sandwiches there. Sat in the sun for a while then went to go see Ice age 2. I love it ... it is a must see ... especially if you liked scrat ... the one with the acorn ... he is in the second one a lot more and it is really funny. So we had a real good laugh. Went home had home made pizza and some wine and did some some catching up and talking about the Malawi tour JF and I went on while we were still in school ... 3 weeks of fun and games ... as we remember it. So JF left early on Sunday and we just spent a quiet day at home recovering from our weekend :o)

So this weekend ... more fun and games ...

L8r
Panthera

PS Geluk met Oom Pikkie se verjaardag verlede Vrydag

Dive..dive...dive

Yes people that's right this weekend was the London International Dive show ... and it was brilliant. First thanks to Zod for surprising me with the tickets to the dive show ... made my day. So this is how it went ... got up a lot earlier than usual this morning (/this being that I am on "holiday" so I dont get up at 7 anymore) to head down to Excel for the dive show. Got there in time to enter a the line to get in ... and realized we were five minutes early ... bonus ... so we filled in a competition form while we waited ... needless to say it was the first of many ... hehehe ... playing the odds ... the more you enter for a Red Sea holiday even if with different people the better your chances right? Especially if there is two of us ... right?

Anyway I digress so we enter this huge exhibition hall and this is what we found ... dive stuff and more dive stuff. There was everything ... literally every diver's dream ... somewhere you dont go with your creditcard at all. There was equipment and equipment and more equipment.










We found digital cameras and housings and more cameras and housings ... Dads would have had a field day :o) ... and of course the day would not be complete without the 350D (/Zods passion) and finding out it too has a housing for underwater photography.






















We also visited this guy who was painting t-shirts kewl huh? There were of course info on dive holidays ... the type of thing that makes you want to use up your nest egg all at once ... needless to say we got lots and lots of free stuff ... it looked like we went on a shopping spree in Oxford street :o)










We left Excel just after two just seven minutes before it rained (we had to wait that long for DLR thats how I know exactly how long) ... note in the photo ... no clouds in sight ... and they say Cape Town weather is unpredictable.

Overall a very good start to a new month, a happy month.

L8r
Panthera