You win some you lose some

Hey kids hows it going?
Jam here, I thought it appropriate to address the large white elephant in the room first - how can the All Blacks be out of the world cup when it has only just started! And more importantly, how can the English still be in it (sorry to anyone supporting the English - but come on lets be realistic here!) All I have been able to read about it (the All Blacks)was the single page allocation the English newspapers gave to it!

We were in a pub watching the game (8pm Sat our time) and all the bloomin English were cheering on France - because they were too scared to want to play us - and to make matters worse, they had all put £10 bets on France winning! GRRRRR! Aaaanyway thats about all I really want to say about that!

However, on a far happier note (the win some that the title is referring to), Bevan scored himself a very nice and well paying job at a bank as their IT/hardware guy, so that is very exciting! And it started on Monday! This has now taken the pressure off our finances somewhat! This has therefore allowed me to ease up on the awful temping, so that I can apply for some jobs. This week I am only working three days, because the problem when you are temping is that you are so busy working there is no time to look for other more suitable, better paid jobs. However, I can't be referred to as a lady of leisure - as ladies of leisure can afford fancy lunches and outings to the theatre, and manicures...........haha and technically I am working!

We went out for dinner on Friday night to celebrate the occasion(Bev getting a job), to a nice local pub and then went to a movie. I ordered a wine and ended up drinking a very nice NZ Sav, and we were served by an Aussie! Only in London!
However, probably due to the fact that we haven't had a lot of money as of late, we haven't been eating much, so this uncharacteristic gorging in conjunction with a fast-paced movie with lots of camera switching led us to both feel very motion sick! Haha that will teach us! Talk about nana's!

On Saturday we went and checked out another flat with our British flat mates as the other one had fallen through, for some reason there seems to be a problem with two couples wanting to rent out a two bedroom house.....there is sooooo much red tape over here! We put an offer in on the flat - and have since heard we have it as long as our references are accepted, which is helped by Bev having a job, but still a little dodgy because of more red tape!

We then went to Hyde Park with them, and saw some more cool little squirrels flitting around :o) We bought Bev a few more work clothes, none of those scody grey polo shirts that concord insisted on!

We then caught up with Corey and Heike late Saturday afternoon, which was really cool to see someone from home. We went to the Tate Museum together, and then watched the unmentionable rugby game!

On Sunday we did all the usual household chores - made more difficult since we are still gypsies - we have to do our washing at a laundromat, and then we caught up with Corey and Heike for dinner - we went to a really nice burger place which is run by Kiwi's - called Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) so much better than Burger Fuel mmmmmm!

We also found the Kiwi shop (although it was closed) so will have to go back there and get some vegemite sometime - British Marmite tastes like bum, and is runny like honey - go figure! Also another thing that tastes like bum over here is their water - it is really thick like milk to drink ewww! And when you boil it you get this big scum collecting around the jugs element - one has to wonder why! It also doesn't get any better tasting after you have boiled it either. When we were in Edinburgh we drank so much water because they had really nice water. I hope when I get a job they have a good water filtering system!

Today as I was walking down to the Laundromat to do some more washing it was raining, and a big truck drove past and it splashed through a puddle and totally soaked me on the footpath! So it really does happen like in the movies! Argh so disgusting!

Anyway thats about all our news for now, hope everyone is ok, and looking forward to hearing from you! (That's a hint to email us if you didn't see it through my subtlety!)

Jam :o)