Have finally had a chance to sit down and catch up with a few things. Just realised that I haven't posted any info about Rugby, where we now live.
We live in a "new build". A new build is basically what we would call a sub division in NZ. The place we live in is a two storey, three bed place not far from Rugby School. Rugby school is of course where the game started, when Bill Ellis picked up a soccer ball and decided to go for a run. God bless him.
The one thing I didn't know about Rugby is that the famous Gilbert ball brand started in Rugby too. Rugby the game is central to Rugby the town these days. The town logo is a Rugby ball and there is a Rugby Museum and a Rugby walk of fame - a bit like the Hollywood walk of fame, but for Rugby players. Oh and Johnny Snapinhalfison is number 1. What a joke.
Rugby has a population of about 90,000 people and is in the Warwickshire region in West Midlands. Warwickshire is also famous for Bill Shakespear and the Earl of Warwick, from Warwick castle which is Britain's most visited Castle.
Erm that's about it really. Rugby is fairly central to most things - 45 mins from Birmingham, 1 hr by train from London, 2 hours to Stonehenge, and about 30 minutes to Silverstone!
Oh and the most important thing about Rugby is we have a spare room and it's always free to our Antipodean mates to come and use!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
FOTC
The pilot episode from the FOTC new US TV show is up. Funny.
http://www.hbo.com/conchords/
not sure how it will go down in the States with the dry humour but hope it goes really well.
http://www.hbo.com/conchords/
not sure how it will go down in the States with the dry humour but hope it goes really well.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Bank Holiday fun
Monday (yesterday) was a bank holiday so we packed up the car (little Pug 306 Hatch) and drove down to London to stay with some friends.
A quick surf to Google Maps and we were off. It was a pretty easy journey really. Down the M1 for about 70 miles into London follow the south-eastern ring road and a few turns later we where there. Total journey time was about 2 hours. Traveling down the M1 is fast, but you can't relax as you would on SH1. There is 3 or four lanes of constant traffic and you have to keep your wits about you. I usually sit on a comfortable 70-80 mph, but cars fly past on the outside lane probably going 100+mph.
Anyway, once in London we drove in Central London for some shopping. Well to clarify. I didn't drive into London, Mark who has been here a year took those honours, and again we didn't shop. Kim was meeting her sister in town to go shopping for bridesmaids dresses so we left them all to it and went for a look around and a couple of lagers.
Finally found the Apple store, which was impressive. Two floors of all the bits and pieces Apple makes. The just do it so well, which is not surprising being Apple! The whole bottom floor is for you to play on all the gear and you don't get bothered by sales staff. If you require assistance you can go upstairs and ask for help - they even run free training sessions.
Once we pulled ourselves away from there we looked around a few other stores and went for a beer or two and watched the world go by. A couple of Temuka boys shooting the breeze in the middle of London! Classy eh.
The girls finally finished shopping around 4 and we drove back and had a Braii. Which is basically a BBQ but South African way of saying it. (Mark and Vicki live with yarpies).
On Sunday we had a slap up English breakfast and said our good byes and headed to Bluewater which is off the M25 to the East of London. It is a HUGE shopping mall with over 330 shops and 40 restaurants. It took us 5 hours to look around and amazingly I didn't complain once! I bought some work trousers and a tie, Madison got a couple of toys and a swimsuit and Kim bought some towels. Flash eh!
Monday we just hung out at home, did the Supermarket shopping and watched the final of the snooker.
All in all a good weekend. There is another Bank holiday weekend in two weeks, and hopefully we might a little further.
A quick surf to Google Maps and we were off. It was a pretty easy journey really. Down the M1 for about 70 miles into London follow the south-eastern ring road and a few turns later we where there. Total journey time was about 2 hours. Traveling down the M1 is fast, but you can't relax as you would on SH1. There is 3 or four lanes of constant traffic and you have to keep your wits about you. I usually sit on a comfortable 70-80 mph, but cars fly past on the outside lane probably going 100+mph.
Anyway, once in London we drove in Central London for some shopping. Well to clarify. I didn't drive into London, Mark who has been here a year took those honours, and again we didn't shop. Kim was meeting her sister in town to go shopping for bridesmaids dresses so we left them all to it and went for a look around and a couple of lagers.
Finally found the Apple store, which was impressive. Two floors of all the bits and pieces Apple makes. The just do it so well, which is not surprising being Apple! The whole bottom floor is for you to play on all the gear and you don't get bothered by sales staff. If you require assistance you can go upstairs and ask for help - they even run free training sessions.
Once we pulled ourselves away from there we looked around a few other stores and went for a beer or two and watched the world go by. A couple of Temuka boys shooting the breeze in the middle of London! Classy eh.
The girls finally finished shopping around 4 and we drove back and had a Braii. Which is basically a BBQ but South African way of saying it. (Mark and Vicki live with yarpies).
On Sunday we had a slap up English breakfast and said our good byes and headed to Bluewater which is off the M25 to the East of London. It is a HUGE shopping mall with over 330 shops and 40 restaurants. It took us 5 hours to look around and amazingly I didn't complain once! I bought some work trousers and a tie, Madison got a couple of toys and a swimsuit and Kim bought some towels. Flash eh!
Monday we just hung out at home, did the Supermarket shopping and watched the final of the snooker.
All in all a good weekend. There is another Bank holiday weekend in two weeks, and hopefully we might a little further.
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