Time to restore some order

Hey diggers,

I am somewhat disappointed with myself, to be perfectly honest.

I promised myself that I would ensure that this blog was updated regularly, and now I find myself writing the first entry in over a week. However, one does need to be realistic. I mean, during the week there's not a lot to write about. There's only so much you can talk about without becoming repetitive. Therefore, in the spirit of compromise, what I have decided to do is this. I shall post a major update each weekend, without fail. This will have in it a summary of everything of interest or note that has happened to me on the weekend, with pictures if possible. For the three of you still out there reading this, what this will mean is that you only need to check on the weekend, rather than be disappointed because the lazy British bound slob hasn't bothered to put fingers to keyboard during the week.

That's not to say that there won't be updates during the week. If something of note happens that simply must be made public, it'll go up.

Anyways, moving right along...

For those of you unaware, this weekend is a long weekend. Bank holiday on the Monday you see. It's exactly the same as a public holiday in Australia except that there's no particular reason for having it. The 28th August was not a day when Britain was discovered, fought it's first major war, the workers parade, the Queen chalks another year up - nothing like that. It's just an excuse for everyone to shut up shop.

With that in mind, I spent Saturday at the pub. Most of the people from work (well, 4 out of the 5 other people I work with) are South Africans or New Zealanders. Hence I came along to the Walkabout Hotel at Temple tube station to watch the All Blacks carve up the Springboks. Not a bad game of rugby, all things considered. The All Blacks certainly put on a good show. It's always tough to beat South Africa at home, particularly playing at the altitude of Pretoria. After that I made my way to a different pub, this one just near Charing Cross, to meet up with some folks from a Warhammer forum I frequent in England. While it wasn't as big as it could have been, due to some cancellations and conflicts, I still managed to catch up with a very affable chap and enjoyed a few pints with him as well.

Sunday was a day of routine stuff - had a look at a house up at Cricklewood, which is in inner north london, near Hampstead Heath. Not a bad place - quite cheap, reasonably close to work. The person who was at home to show me around seemed really friendly as well. There are 2 rooms on offer here so hopefully I'll get one. Will find out early this week. I must say I've grown to enjoy the Badger - once you've been there for a few weeks, the residents stop treating you with the disdain reserved for the "randoms" and start speaking to you. Which is nice. Met some nice people there. I still want my own room though, hence the desire to move out. Plus a house would be cheaper.

Well, I might leave it at that - Monday has dawned grey and rainy, however a brief cessation in the rain means that this is as probably as good a time as any to make a run for it back to the Badger.

Later diggers, and I shall see you anon.