Archive for February, 2007

Happy Year of the Pig

Monday, February 19th, 2007

The Year of the Dog is over, long live the Year of the Pig!
To celebrate Chinese New Year, we had friends over for a get-together last night. This is the first time we have entertained guests in our new flat so it was very exciting! I am hoping to do more entertaining this year.
To start, [...]

Amelie for Amnesty

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

The weather has been miserable the past few days and I have been laid low with a nasty virus. To break the tedium of work and home, without actually having to spend long outside or in a smoky pub, what could be better than the movies?
My boyfriend and I met Natalie, Jess and Andrew yesterday [...]

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

It was a match on nobody’s sporting calendar, bar the Aussie expat community in London and the Danish TV viewing public.
Australia v Denmark played a friendly match in the Loftus Road Stadium in Shepherd’s Bush last Tuesday night. I thought it would be fun to go along and Natalie and Steven K joined me to [...]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

My snow dance worked! A few days after my last post I woke up to find the world was covered in pretty, white stuff. Hurray for snow! Then last week we had an even heavier dump of snow! Compare the two photos taken from my living room window a fortnight apart.

Transport was screwed and many [...]