A while ago during a complaining session about the quality of UK beef my boss Matt suggested I check out Donald Russell. Well to be honest I had forgotten all about it until the other week when a flyer with a rib-eye special arrived in my letterbox. I left it stuck on my fridge for a couple of days and finally made the decision to place an order. To my surprise it also included free delivery. A few days later this package arrived for Lord B Rawson

Unboxing

Dry ice - "Ice to see you!"

Private Reserve

The Queen's meat!

The finest of the fine

No no, thank you!

Individually wrapped parcels of love (meat)

Medium rare please

With salad and mash.

Now with a special Chinese beer - complete!

A quick update to say I’m back in Australia for the next 6 weeks or so sorting out my new VISA. I have been working my ass off lately on Seal.com so I have yet to finish my travel blogs.

Hopefully things will die down in the next week and I’ll be able to catch up. I haven’t even spoken about Barcelona or Hong Kong yet.

_B

OK so I have been back in London for a few weeks now and just been a little lazy on the blog entries.

What have I been up to? …umm I have been working pretty hard, we have a heap of client work on lately which has been keeping me busy and I have finally just started on doing some work for Seal which I am pretty excited about.

Have been spending my money on drinks quiet a bit too, the picture above is from a night out in Gilford with a few guys I work with. Catching the tube home after a night out drinking is always a challenge.

On the weekend I visited the New Era: LND store (the place that makes those caps with the gold sticker that people leave on) and it was amazing, I didn’t get anything though cause the styles I wanted didn’t fit my big head (7 1/4 inches) but I will be back.

To finish off I have finally joined the gym again, Fitness First because I can go to any of their gyms in London which will make things easier for me on the way to and from work as well as being able to go to one near my place on the weekends. The hard part will be getting rid of 9mths of eating and drinking to excess.

_B

This weekend I went to the ‘Taste Of London’ a food a wine exhibition in Regent’s Park, London.

It was awesome, like a trade show for food and wine. So I love food, cooking and drinking so if any of you had yet realised I would have loved it.

I couldn’t believe how many people went, it was like the ekka, this kind of thing totally wouldn’t work in Brisbane….actually the Caxton St seafood festival was packed but I think everyone was just there to get fucked up, rather then enjoy the seafood.

Anyways I had some awesome food, wine, beer, cider and PIMM’s….some English spirit mixed with lemonade and fruit, which everyone drinks in the summer. I even brought home a heap of cheese, bread, curry and chutneys for dirt cheap.

Today (Sunday) I hacked out the overgrown mess that was my backyard. The back courtyard of my studio has a raised deck which was completely covered with vines and tree branches so you couldn’t get out there, the landlord said he would trim it before I moved in but clearly it hasn’t been touched in years, so I trotted down the the local B&Q (Bunnings) and got a pair of garden shears. I spent a few hours back there and after loads of pikes and some pretty messed up blistery hands its all cleared.
To celebrate I had a BBQ, English style, I bought a disposable BBQ from the supermarket (small tray with a metal grill and coals and had myself a barbee.

_B

Just a quick note to say everyone can checkout my photos on FaceBook now, I am working on getting a plugin to bring them straight into my blog but it´s taking ages to find one to work. In the mean time you can click on the link in the “Eurotrip Gallery” or here to see them.

_B