This is my London Travelcard, it get’s me to and from work each day and gives me unlimited travel on the London Underground so that I can get from my house to the Waterloo…where my train to work leaves from.

It cost me £277.70 or $568.81 Australian Dollars! So it’s currently my most prized possession.

Work has been pretty good lately, been doing heaps of design work and am currently working on a new version of one of our sites and my boss has started teaching me Linux, PHP, and SQL

Looking for some new hosting too at the moment, got the latest hosting bill and it’s just too expensive for what I am getting (Australian hosting is just expensive) so I will be moving to either a US or UK host before the end of the month. Hopefully no one will notice any changes and thus have no problems but if you do let me know. Damo, Martin, Justin and Mum you all have email with me but if all goes to plan I wont need to do anything.

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This is a Northern Territory Barramundi that my Dad caught a few weeks ago whilst on a fishing trip. It was 1.16M long and must have weighed a tonne. Not the record but from what I hear pretty close.
This weekend I am going to the London O2 Festival which should be good, no Amy Winehouse but Counting Crows, Powderfinger and my favourite Jay-Z will be there.

So Friday night I got completely wasted in the city (near Trafalgar Square) with work friends. I was late to arrive so everyone was already trashed by the time I got there and had to play catch-up, which wasn’t that hard as they were all buying shots and double rounds. Anyways we all got plastered and I had to try and battle the tube to get home, unfortunately for me I fell asleep (passed out) and woke up at the end of the line. To top things off it just so happened to also be the last train off the night so I was stuck with having to catch a cab back home from there. Funny thing was while I was casually leaning on the timetable sign a bobby came over and asked if I was holding the pole up or if it was holding me up….quiet embarrassing. He was cool though and told me where I could find a bus or cab.

Sunday I went to Greenwich via the Thames Clipper’s which is London’s Citycat and checked out the Meridian line, Observitory and Musuem there. Afterwards I stayed for a pub lunch and some afternoon PIMM’s in the sun with friends, was a good end to the weekend.

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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.

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So I have just finished my first week at my new job as the graphic designer for a web company in Woking, Surrey – 30mins or so outside of London. The job is great and the people are all really nice, everyone is around my age and we all have a good time, the travel time and expense kinda sucks but I am getting paid a heap more then I first expected so that should cover my travel expenses.

Interesting fact that I just read on ol Wikipedia is that Woking is the place where the Martians landed in H.G Wells ‘The War Of The Worlds’ and they have a cool statue in the town centre to commemorate it…gonna have to check that out.

Now that I have a job I can stop stressing and start doing a little more sight seeing, at the moment I am planning my Oktoberfest trip and still have Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France to visit so my weekends should be pretty busy.

Oh yeah, my mate Leyton has started a new blog too, The Funny Thing About… – The posts so far have been well…pretty funny.
He does need some graphics for the site though…I think I know a good graphic designer now too

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