Thursday, August 02, 2007

UK - Living it up Peak District

I'm having a great time in the UK at the moment, there has been alot going on recently which is all good!



Have moved out from Jenny and Joshs house to Stepheny green which is reasonably close to Brick lane, so yes I've had a few curries :) I'm sharing with a couple of Italian guys and a couple(English and Chinese), good mix of people. The place is good enough and the people are friendly.

Made a couple of visits to the British Museum but still have only seen half of it, Dwayne came and he loved it to, so much to see and squirrels on the way.



Last weekend I went to the Peak District(Elton, UK) with Jenny n Joshs mates, we did a 20km walk on Saturday, followed by a 50km bike ride on Sunday (ouch). We stayed in a couple of houses, there was about 11 of us, all different cultures and nationalities French, German, Swiss, Czech and a couple of Kiwi Saffers. All and all the weekend was really cool as you can tell from the photos.



On Saturday night we had a BBQ, disposable UK styles, we bought 3 bbqs for £5, they did the trick but once finished you definitely throw those puppies out. Josh had asked for a hand and all I could find was a fork, so I left him to the cooking.



Everyone chipped in and helped out with everything, it was a very good group made some cool friends.


On the job front, things are moving along, one of my references has been checked in NZ which is all good. So I'll probably be working this month, I've been enjoying the unemployed life this last month. Have tried to keep in a semi-work routine and have been programming a catalyst website http://www.catalystframework.org/ and I'm meeting up with the Perl Mongers(programming group) tomorrow at a pub for a social night.



Jamie