tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197445362012-02-17T01:53:17.101ZOur travels and London-based adventures ... So that we don't always seem quite so far away, and so that we don't feel so far away from all our friends and family at home.Adam + Marionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00909719505728249866noreply@blogger.comBlogger4241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744536.post-8302731726421829782009-06-18T22:36:00.003+01:002009-06-18T22:53:24.197+01:00

And for once (ha!) the photos aren't mine :o)I've been learning about my family history recently and some of the characters way back when (would you believe that there's apparently a 15th century pirate in the mix?). Anyway, turns out that photography and observing the world isn't something unique to just me. Fortunately I've got some of my great-grandfather's photos (part of his huge archive has

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There's a huge buzz about 'grow your own' in the UK at the moment, mostly driven by the 'celebrity chefs' Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall through their TV programs on the UK's Channel 4. Although I doubt that Jamie and Hugh's efforts had a direct impact, even the Obamas and the Queen have jumped on the grow-your-own band wagon.Not that I'm deriding the efforts to get people to connect

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So I've just put the best of the photos I took of Tantallon Castle up on lamppost-pictures.com ... looking at them again (& checking out some of the websites on Tantallon) I'm really pleased with them - I seem to have managed to get some quite different angles in my photos that not a lot of others have. Or at least, mine are quite different to those easily thrown up by a Google Image search for '

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It seems strange to be putting together a 'proper' blog post ... it's been ages since I've written one! Looking through the last couple of posts it's made me realise that most of them have been tidbits I've come across online, and not so much about what we've been upto.There's been several reasons for this, primary amongst which has been that work for both of us has been increasingly busy over

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Ok, so now that I'm happy with the end result, I can 'reveal' one of the reasons that I've been so absent from the blog recently ... and that would be that I've been busy with a couple of other projects, one of which has been to do something with my photos. It's all very well to have a hard drive full of images that you love, but there's only so many that you can view on a screen at once!So now

Adam + Marionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00909719505728249866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744536.post-89597091698912364382009-05-19T10:51:00.002+01:002009-05-19T11:18:09.157+01:00

Ok, so this is a viral game for Lufthansa, but it's a fab challenge! The 'my score' listed is my first effort ... let me know how you do :0)

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Just realised it's a whole month since the last post! I've really let things slip ... and it's not even been due to being on holidays! Well, it is a little bit due to holidays, but they weren't ours! My dad visited us in London for 2wks over Easter, and he (understandibly and, dare I say, appropriately) had first dibs on our spare time.So, now that the problem has been noted, we'll work to fix it

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I just came across this on The Telegraph's website, and it's too good not to share!(if you want to see the original, complete with pretty pictures, here's the link)A tourist at a top Africa game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the site of the rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel 'inadequate'A woman threatened to call police

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Another busy week flies past, and all of a sudden the end of March is a hair's breadth away. How does that happen? Before computers, emails, and mobile broadband did time seem to pass so quickly? I can see (a little bit) of logic in the idea of being a hermit ... :DWe've been out-and-about a bit recently - I finally received my birthday present from my parents, via my brother N, a 'family outing'

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Last weekend was simply lovely in London - still a little bit crisp around the edges, but lots of gorgeous blue skies and sunshine to enjoy.We made the most of Sunday and went for a long wander through our backyard (aka - Kensington Garedns) and then through the 'back streets' of Lancaster Gate & Bayswater before circling back home again.{we were on a deadline to be home in time for A to watch

Adam + Marionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00909719505728249866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744536.post-86356678615859528192009-02-20T11:08:00.003Z2009-02-20T11:21:53.571Z

Ok, I truely am being a magpie ... but sharing is caring, you know!I'd never really heard of 'upcycling' clothing until recently (but it's only got a short entry in Wikipedia, so I mustn't be too far behind the trend?), but our friend Brenda (partner of A's cousin and resident of Wellington, NZ) has set up a small business in creating upcycled baby clothing called Bumblebee. Her creations look

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I seem to be playing the part of an information magpie at the moment - feeling a need to share all the interesting / informative / entertaining snippits that I'm discovering around the Interweb. Oh well, no matter. Hopefully you're finding these bits and pieces as interesting as I am!Anyway, to follow on from my post last week (Australia's burning ... and drowning ... all at once) I've come

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I saw this today on the Flight blog (yes it is related to one of the products I work on, and no, I don't make a habit of generating free publicity ...)Anyway, they had posted this fun video viral from Air New Zealand ... who seem to be getting a little peeved off about the nasty, sneaky advertising and pricing practices of the 'budget' airlines plying their trade on the Trans-Tasman route:I

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... parks full of iced-over puddles and once-were-snowmen ... the existing remains of our spell of 'proper winter'.

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We've been really saddened and shocked to read and see the information on the Web in the last couple of days about the huge fires that have been ravaging south-eastern Australia in the last several days. All of a sudden we're glad to discover that channel 7 doesn't have any geographical restrictions on who can see their streaming videos (although it's wierd that they still have the same reporters

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Firstly, thank you for checking out my photo blog (lamppost-pictures.com), and thanks for your kind words!We've not had any more snow (yet?) in London, although there are now plentiful hazards all around the city and wider S-E area of the UK, mainly due to the snow melting a bit during the day, getting all compacted as people walk & drive on it and then freezing overnight. I managed to negotiate

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To follow on from last night's post - London en blanc (told you there'd be more!) - as predicted London received a lot more snow overnight & today, meaning that the whole city came to something of a stand-still. Public transport (all sorts) was 'severly disrupted', with only really the underground sections of the Underground working at all. The buses were trapped in their depots, and even if they

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All of a sudden it's almost a month since I last managed to write anything ... Oops :o(Oh well, here's to February, and more free time (& energy!).So to matters at hand, and the Russian snowstorm that's been waylaid from the Arctic and has come to visit the UK instead ... Yay! It remains to be seen how London's (and the UK's) transport & road systems cope (could be interesting ... hmmm ...) but

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... so I thought I'd blog a-while ...Anyway, I've updated my photo blog with a couple of entries relating to our recent trip to Switzerland - there's some photos from our day trip to Gruyeres, and some that I took one afternoon while wandering around Crans.Seems silly to post everything again, but here's one of my favourites from each ...There're more on lampost-pictures.com if your appetite has

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We had a change for NYE this / last year, and decided to enjoy a quiet evening at home together with dinner, a warm living room and the fireworks on the TV. This was a brilliant option on a number of levels - we didn't have to go out in London's sub-zero temperatures, we got to enjoy time as just us, and we had a chance to find footage of the Sydney fireworks online & see what we missed out on at

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Well, with a post title like that, I certainly hope you agree with my sentiments! Traditionally, Boxing Day for us would involve sleeping off either a food coma, or a hangover (or both) from Xmas Day, while enjoying the summer heat and falling asleep on the couch in front of the first day of the Boxing Day Test (the cricket) on the TV, with intermittent updates on the progress of the start of the

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It seems that, unbelievable as it seems, the Royal Mail is actually working relatively efficiently at distributing Xmas cards and Xmas presents this year. Not only did our present from my parents and the international Cris Cringles from A's mum's family arrive in good time, but the cards and parcels that we sent out seem to have been delivered remarkably promptly o/s as well.So much for the muted

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We went for a walk around the Winter Wonderland Christmas markets late on Sunday afternoon - mainly because I wanted to experiment with photographing the lights, not so much because A wanted to be dragged away from the couch and the warm living room!Anyway, here are some of the best snaps I managed to get ...The 'mini-London Eye' wheel, viewed from across the SerpentineFairground ridesSome of the

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In the spirit of keeping this blog as up-to-date as possible (and leaving me with as little catch-up work as possible :o), here are some of the photos I took the weekend before last in the Peak District.(I was going to do a much edited version of this web album, but then I've got some of my favourites on my photo blog anyway, so I thought I'd avoid the duplication ...)I hope you like them!

Adam + Marionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00909719505728249866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744536.post-81622504066658930892008-12-12T21:07:00.005Z2008-12-12T21:24:55.970Z

I put up our little Xmas tree two weekends ago (the first weekend of Advent), and I love the extra Christmassy feeling it gives to the living room.Ok, so it's a 3ft tall artificial tree, so it doesn't smell 'proper' (I've bought some 'Christmas' candles that smell of oranges, cinnamon and spiced apples, so they're helping out instead), but our little tree is just big enough to be a showcase of

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A little clip called 'The evolution of dance' ... 

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As part of my extended birthday celebrations (I should turn 30 more often!) Adam took me off to Bruges for a long weekend of chilling out, beer and chocolate tasting and general relaxation. And it was lovely! We stayed in the Kempinski Dukes Palace Hotel, and as top-end hotels go, it was one of the nicest we've stayed in. I think that if we have a chance to stay in more of their hotels in the

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Well, perhaps not rampant, but certainly more convincing than the English on Saturday at Twickenham stadium :o)Having said that, the game was certainly not the most spectacular we'd ever seen ... but that didn't stop us from enjoying the fact that the Wallabies won. I took my 'big' camera on Saturday to have a bit of a play with some action / sports photography at a distance, and although there

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Have just checked the blog, and it seems that NBC has just realised that their SNL sketches featuring Sarah Palin were more popular globally than they were intending ... and they've put a new geographical restriction on the streaming of the SNL skits that I've embedded in the previous post 'Sarah Palin on SNL'.So if (like us) you're outside of the US, you can't watch them anymore (boo!! :o(Hope

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Well, maybe it's sleeting rather than snowing, but how nuts is that!? Last winter it didn't snow until springtime, and this winter it can't wait to get started ...Not the best demonstration of said 'snow', but you'll have to take our word for it!Oh well, who are we to complain? Bodes well for the ski season ... :o)

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We went to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time last night - to listen to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & various choirs perform Carmina Burana, and it was amazing. I've always loved this piece of music, and it was fabulous to hear it performed live.It was fab to finally see the interior of the RAH for ourselves as well - it's a wonderful 'in the round' venue. We had arena seats - meaning

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I've just come across this article on the Times Online website - it seems that Westminster council's decided that political statements on the nature of the UK's modern surveillance society that are masquerading as urban art should be banned, removed and forgotten.It's a shame really, I think Banksy's 'One Nation Under CCTV' is great. I hope the council manages to develop a sense of humour (forced

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I mentioned a little while back, but I've set up a photo blog where I don't have to feel conscious of filling this blog full of my photos!Anyway, my little blog, lamppost-pictures.com, has just clicked over 1,000 unique users within 3mths of purely organic growth. Not earth shattering, but I'm happy with it! Anyway, please check it out, and let me know what you think.M x

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While we've not seen yesterday's Saturday Night Live, Dad gave me the heads-up to lookout for it ... after the Tina Fey / Amy Poehler sketch a couple of weeks ago (as a Sarah Palin / Hilary Clinton press conference), Sarah Palin herself was on SNL ... I don't know if it was such a great idea on her part, but Amy Poehler's 'Palin rap' is definitely worth watching:The fact that this woman's

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Ok, so this is a little delayed ... last Sunday we caught the tube up to Camden to have a bit of a wander around, and to figure out what we wanted for lunch.I took the camera as well, and am pretty happy with some of the photos I came away with:I hope you like them!

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The Queen visited Google's London HQ today, and I quite like the Google Doodle that they've got up today in her honour:I wonder if I went to see Google HQ they'd do a Doodle for me?;o)Here's some other Doodles they've had up during 2008 that I think are quite fun ...(I like that we've actually seen the original Jeff Koons sculpture of this in Bilbao last year)

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After our time in Xi'an, we travelled to Guilin and enjoyed a 4hr cruise on the Li river to the (very touristy) town of Yangshuo. Altogether a nice way to spend a couple of days.And we had fabulous foot massages in Yangshuo - 1hr for the equivalent of £5. Why can't that be found in London? ;o)

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It's taken a little while to get this far, but here's the next photo album from our honeymoon; our two days in Xi'an ...In hindsight, we felt that we could have done with less time in Xi'an. Aside from the Terracotta Warriors (which are worth seeing), there's really very little else that's really worth making time for.This feeling may have also been down to both of us feeling a bit '

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This weekend has seen a huge surge in the profile and coverage for the HFRFC's Stuart Mangan Appeal (I've posted about this before, but thought it couldn't hurt to do so again!)The club has launched a 'Give 2 for Stu' initiative, and it's caught on in the rugby community both online and amongst the clubs throughout the UK. The idea behind the initiative is to encourage as many people as possible

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We've seen the professional wedding photos! So Exciting!We've got a link with >750 photos on it, so we won't enflict that on all of you, but once we've got the photo disc I'll create a photo album with some of the best ones included.And then we can get on with the thank-you cards ... :o)M x

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How is it that 2008 is zooming by so ridiculously quickly? All of a sudden yesterday was a whole calendar month since we got married! What the ...?It's been a super eventful month too (and yes, I will get the rest of the China photos organised ASAP). The turmoil in the global markets and the apparent end of capitalism as we know it have made for 'entertaining' viewing (so far, at least). From

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We saw this in the paper this morning - apparently the plane broke down on landing in Zhengzhou, and aipport ground crew and passengers had to push it off the runway and towards the terminal. It took them 2hrs to push the plane a 1/2 mile.

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This is a fab little cartoon that's been doing the rounds of Facebook, and with good reason - have a giggle :o)

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I've just uploaded an album of our photos from our 4 days in Beijing - complete with explanatory captions :o)Enjoy!

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Apparently our professional photos should be ready by the end of next week. I'm so curious to see them!On the other hand, one of my tasks for this weekend is to sort out the photos from China. That'll keep me amused and out of trouble for a little while! hehe! :o)One of the other things on the to-do list for the weekend - see Tropic Thunder! It's had really good write-ups, and I'm so looking

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I've managed to work through some of all of the photos that we've got so far (and a huge thanks to Sean & Mary for sending them to us!), and I've been able to put together the following online albums of the wedding, reception and the Sunday 'Recovery Day', all at Wandin Valley Estate.The wedding - 'unplugged':The reception - also 'unplugged':The Recovery Day:There's also some photos of Adam all

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I'll be adding photos onto a series of web albums for our time in Sydney for the week before the wedding, the pre-wedding activities, the wedding itself, the Recovery day and then the different places we visited during our honeymoon.Seems a little OTT when I write it out, but there're so many photos that I've got break them down into sets, otherwise it'll all be too overwhelming!The first of the

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I've just checked out our photographer's website, and he's got a 'taster' of three photos from our wedding on his blog - click here to check them out :o)

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Ok, the intermission's almost over ... we're back in London, and back online (it's a sad story, involving the advancing old age of one laptop, and a trip to the high street to acquire a new one).So, the short update:We're successfully and happily married - yay!We had a fabulous, but rushed week at home, followed by a brilliant weekend in the Hunter Valley for the wedding weekend; best party we've

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We're at the tail-end of the last weekend before we head home for our wedding and then honeymoon in China. It's insane how quickly the time's zoomed past and all of a sudden we're going to be back in Sydney next weekend and then married the weekend after that. WTF?!It's more than a little exciting (much to the amusement of my work colleagues), and while we're not really 'looking forward' to the

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It's all getting very close, very quickly. All of a sudden our wedding's only 15 days away! I collected my dress this afternoon, the bridesmaids have their dresses, we're picking up our wedding rings next week and then we'll be winging on our merry way.It seems like a couple of weeks ago that we were deciding on venues ... where has the year disappeared to?ps - Aus is now #6 on the medal table,

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Just needed to say - Aus is now at 5th position on the medal tally, and Team GB is at 7 :o){hey - we've got to make the most of it; once the swimming's over that's us almost all done with!}

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I thought I'd just let you know that I've started up a new photoblog and called it Lamppost Pictures - I've set it up to 'showcase' my favourite photos that I've taken since December 2004, but most of the photos will be from the start of our travels at the end of 2005.Please feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts. I can't get better if I don't get feedback!

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Like many people (I suspect), I love receiving small things from home in the way of posted parcels - it lets me know that while I'm not there physically, I am there in people's minds. Which is almost as good!Today a package arrived from home from my dad - my copy of a the 'most recent' (ie - the second) of the family histories that he's had my grandmother heavily involved in creating. This one is

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I was just glancing over the most recent posts, and I've noticed a strong preoccupation with the weather, and whether or not summer's been / gone / still here. I think we've been here a little too long, perhaps ...I resolve that my next post will not mention the weather at all! Maybe I should become unhealthily preoccupied with Australia's standing in the medal tally at the Beijing Olympics

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When I (and the rest of London) woke up this morning, it looked like it would be a glorious, sunny (if cold) Saturday. Almost (dare I say it, since it's only August 9) an early autumnal day.However, the weather devil made itself known by mid-morning, and the rest of the day was gray, wet, and dreary. How fabulously stereotypically English! :o)Now does this look like summer to you?Anyway, I needed

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We've tended not to be the most active cinema-goers in recent times for one reason or another, but with the recent release of The Dark Knight we decided to break the drought.So last weekend A & I trundled up the hill the to Coronet Theatre at Notting Hill Gate, and we were really glad we did. The theatre is fabulous - it dates from 1898 and was originally a stage theatre. When it was converted to

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Last week was lovely (most of the time), and we went for a walk on Wednesday evening to just enjoy the brief appearance of summer ;o)Anyway, I was glad I took the little camera on spec, as the late sunset / dusk was definitely worth admiring.Just gorgeous!

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How's this for a bit of a laugh?:o)

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To prove my point about the drama of Sydney storms, I've pulled out this photo from my 'archive':This one of my favourite-ever photos, and it's a summer storm brewing over Sydney's CBD. I took it with my little Olympus Mini-Mju camera (that A had given me for Xmas almost a year before & that's now very superceded), and I took it from the Taronga Zoo ferry in the last week before we left Sydney in

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Today was glorious - sunny with mostly clear blue skies, slightly muggy and building storm clouds through the afternoon. Almost could have been Sydney ;o)Kensington Gardens ... love it!Street sculpture on Gloucester RoadGloucester Road tubeMy task for today was to do some more research into hair accessories and earrings for the wedding - my (mainly Internet-based) browsing so far had turned up

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I was cruising through some of our photos (from Xmas 2005 to now) and I thought I'd put together a selection of some of my favorites.This is the Guggenheim in Bilbao - we visited on our summer holiday last year. For me, the architecture of the building was the most moving and glorious exhibit of the gallery.This is the Guggenheim at night, with the eerie sculpture Maman in the foreground. I'm

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... you get all excited to find a book is now available in paperback (b/c hardcover editions are both too big & too expensive to bother with unless they're coffee table books), and so you buy it ... only to discover when you get home that this is the second time you've had this exciting moment and there's already a copy on your bookshelf?Well, I do, and in my case (this time) it's one of Isabel

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This last weekend, Katie came down for Edinburgh for a girls' weekend of pampering and general fun.As a sort-of hen's thing, I'd found a day spa on High St Ken called Adamina Spa that looked lovely and has good online customer reviews, so I booked us in for an afternoon of pampering - facial, manicure, pedicure ... you know, the fun stuff!So we headed off for our luxurious afternoon via

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Again, completely not travel-related, but I think I just may have cracked the seating arrangements for the wedding reception. Most likely not hugely interesting to most of you, but I'm excited by it! :o)Seating arrangements for a major function feel like some sort of twisted chess game. Now I just need everyone to turn up, and for people who've indicated that they'll be bringing along a 'plus 1'

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It's only 44 days to go until we get married! (I know this because the countdown on our wedding website says so, not because I've sat and counted the days on a calendar)Ok, so after 2.5yrs of engagement and 8.5yrs together, you'd think we'd be expecting our wedding day to arrive at some point. But since we're getting married at home (half a world away), until recently we've (well, I've) been able

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We had the most fabulous weekend hanging out in Geneva - it was a short 'n sweet visit that we only decided to make a week before. Now that's the sort of late-notice travel that we'll definitely miss when we're no longer based in this corner of the world!The reason for the trip was two-fold really ... one being that Allie & Yorio can't make it to Aus for our wedding, so we wanted to catch up with

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We're just home from a fabulous weekend hanging out with the Geneva - Tanimuras and one of the group excursions included a visit to H&M at Chavannes and the summer sale. Hana managed to find a stellar pair of glasses for 2CHF and so we set to work on a new ad campaign angle. Supa Stylin';o)

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I'm a regular reader of Vanity Fair - although I'm not a subscriber I have made sure my Dad is - and at the beginning of every month I'm on the lookout for the next issue (VF is one of the really good things about living in London - you can get the latest issue as soon as it's published, and for a reasonable price, unlike in Sydney).Anyway, in the August '08 issue Christopher Hitchens has a

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Earlier this year, we were in an enviable position of having the choice of staying in London, or potentially relocating to Dubai, as A was being presented with two career opportunities. Given that it was a decision we knew was coming for at least 6 weeks, it still came as a shock when we were given 10 days notice to make a major life choice.Anyway, to make the decision a more informed (even if

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We made a group excursion out to Royal Ascot and the races yesterday - an all day effort that started with champagne & brunchy-type nibbles in honour of Claire's birthday, followed by an hour long train journey out of London Waterloo.We were in the General Admissions section - a step up from the Silver Circle and next door to the Royal Enclosure. Not that this seems to mean all that much ...

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Neil, a work colleague & friend of mine has a band here in London - Life Thru Iris - & they're just starting to get their music demos and online presence all sorted.They're playing gigs around about London & surrounds, the details on which are on their website, together with some of their sample tracks (also on their site here). They've also got a group going on Facebook (Life Thru Iris friends).

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Gaye & Robbie Waterhouse dining at Kensington Place restaurant on Wednesday evening (they must be in town for Ascot)Having them living at the top of the street when growing up meant that they were familiar figures when they got out of the cab as we were walking up the street ... and the fact that Robbie's hairstyle hasn't changed, and that he was wearing a lilac linen jacket made them easy to

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Filmed at the IATA conference in Istanbul, at the end of May '08, view Willie Walsh's interview with Airline Business.For more info if you're interested, see Flight.com's coverage of the event. Interesting comments for those jet-setters amongst us!

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And so to the next episode in our travels, and a long weekend filled with glorious warmth & sunshine in Berlin. The reason for going - to celebrate the recent wedding of our friends Britta & Doug.Apparently it's just as hard to arrange a wedding in Germany as it is the UK when you live in Australia, so as a result their official (legal) wedding happened in March on the shore of Sydney Harbour.

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Just a quick note - the HFRFC managed to raise over £5,000 for the Stuart Mangan Appeal at the annual dinner / dance. A pretty impressive effort!Again, if you can, and want to help, the Appeal's details are here.

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Ok, so now that the second of the May long weekends have been and gone I can let you know what we were up to.Well, it was a closely guarded secret up until Sunday, but Adam made a lightening-fast trip to Sydney for the long weekend. It's an awful lot of travel time (48hrs in total) for not very long on the ground (36hrs), but there was a good reason - his grandfather's 90th birthday lunch. Happy

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I've seen these guys on a couple of YouTube clips, and they're fab! Anyway, I thought I'd share it with you:

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So, we had the annual dinner / dance for the Hammer's rugby club on Saturday night, and I was left contemplating (similarly to last year) on the differences between the end-of-season functions for the Mosman Whales and the Hammers. While both are fun and are good excuses to get all dressed up for a formal function, I have to say that I think I prefer the Whales' functions that I've been to ...

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This may seem like a slightly different post to the normal 'what we've been up to' sort of updates, but it seems like a good time to let you guys know just how stupid, long-winded and painful the visa application process for the UK is becoming.I know they say that the UK Home Office is modeling their new system on the Australian points system, but from our experiences and those of our friends,

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I've decided to 'put my money where my mouth is' and start entering some amateur photography competitions. I'm really enjoying my photography, esp. since Adam gave me my loverly Xmas present! Anyway, if I can somehow turn it into a monetised hobby, so much the better!Anyway, I digress ... I've entered one of my recent 'snow in London' photos into an online competition being run by Canon. The

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So here I find myself a corporate banking widow again for most of the week, and here I am writing another blog post. I'm noticing a trend going on ... Adam goes on a work trip (Dubai last week, Singapore this week) and I get a whole lot more done in terms of blogging, studying my French home learning course, keeping in touch with everyone ... should I be concerned?It seems sad in a way that I'm

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Although we both managed to speak to our respective mothers this morning, it seems fitting to perpetuate the Happy Mothers' Day wishes.lv M&A xx

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We took advantage of a lovely weekend a couple of weeks ago to finally do one of the touristy things that I've been wanting to do for ages. Well, at least since we moved to London over 2yrs ago. We caught the tube into town and did the 'St Pauls experience'. We were a little surprised at the cost (about £10 each), and that they don't let you take photos inside the cathedral. We were in York last

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I've been completely snap-happy lately, and all of a sudden find myself with lots of photos and not knowing where to start in writing about them!We recently celebrated Adam's birthday with low-key drinks & nibbles at our place, topped off by two fabulous birthday cakes. The Adam-only cake was far cuter ...Birthday cake #2At the end of a long rugby season - the Hammersmith & Fulham 1st XV

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Some of you have likely heard of the increasingly prominent street artist Banksy - a graffiti artist from Bristol who's managed to transcend the label of vandal to that of artist. His works are really witty and usually have a very sharp and wry humour to them. {a link to his website's here if you're interested}Well, earlier this week Banksy left another contribution to the tapestry of London in a

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Ok, it's now a week since London was blanketed in lovely springtime snow, and since then the weather - while clear - has been significantly colder than last week.Now today the weather has been completely weird. We woke to a glorious sunny morning, only for it to cloud over a bit, and we keep having showers of heavy hail & sleet pass over the city. Well, Kensington at least. Winter's definitely

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Well, it had to happen sooner or later. After making it through the whole of winter with only a couple of heavy frosts in London, it finally snowed today for the first time in 2008. But of course it had to wait until April & springtime!Adam woke me up this morning at 9am by telling me that it was snowing - I didn't believe him until he opened the curtains and the trees were coated in snow. I was

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Google & Virgin have announced a humongous new JV - VirgleCheck it out! ;-D

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A couple off weeks ago, we ventured north of the border for a long weekend of fun and festivities to celebrate the impending birthday of one Katie Patterson. We flew up to Edinburgh on Friday morning, were met at the airport and then we headed off to the Loch Moidart region of Scotland. This is on the west coast, and (as the post title suggests) is in the Highlands and is in the centre of Bonny

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I just saw this story on the BBC News site:Dolphin helps to rescue beached whalesHow cool is that?! And it speaks pretty highly of NZ too.

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One thing that we've noticed while living over here is that the Brits will go to no end to create excused for fancy dress nights and parties.Having said that, not everyone gets in on the act, but it is a co-curricular activity indulged in on a regular basis by the Hammer's rugby club! The most recent event was a 'Back to School' night at the newly refurbished (and much nicer) Wheafsheaf pub.

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A couple of week's ago we were very kingly invited to join some of Adam's RBS colleagues in Dublin for a weekend of social events and the Ireland - Scotland 6 Nations game. Lovely!Well, the 'right' team won on the day (Adam's boss is Irish, and we were content to cheer for them too ;-) and the afternoon at Croke Park stadium passed very happily. (no photos from the game - sorry! check out the RBS

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This is great! And the best thing is that the behaviour of all the other tube passengers is exactly as you'd predict it would be!

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So much has happened since the last post - my apologies! Especially since I've taken to checking Adam's cousin's blog every other day for a new post since he and his partner had a gorgeous baby boy before Christmas. Oh well! ...We had a lovely, quiet Christmas Day just to ourselves, following a Christmas Eve dinner party and in preparation for our flight home to Sydney. We had only two weeks at

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I thought I'd share some of the photos we've taken recently of the gorgeous Christmas lights in here London, and in Switzerland a couple of weekends ago. This is in part because I love the photos, and also partly to distract me from cleaning the apartment in preparation for tonight.We seem to have happily fallen into an Xmas Eve dinner habit, where we have various fellow expat-Orphans over for a

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All of a sudden it's December again, two weeks until Christmas and two weeks until we head home for this year's lightening tour of Sydney and surrounds. How did that happen, and where has the year gone?Everyone seems to be saying the same thing - that this year has simply flown by before they've really had a chance to notice. Very strange ... but oh well, just means that we have to make the most

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Time's been flying by so quickly for us that I didn't realise it's been a good 6 weeks since my last post. Oops - sorry! My time seems to be taken up more with Facebook (sorry, Crackbook) and I guess that's sort-of taken over from this blog as the way that we (well, me ... and Adam vicariously through my profile) have been keeping in touch with people.Anyway, if you'd like to check out my profile

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