Google thought of the minute

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

Read Full Post »

Fireworks and Halloween

The sound of fireworks has been a common occurence over the last few nights.  Apparently this coming week it a big one for firework displays, culminating in Guy Falkes, not something that is really big in Oz, but is over here. I haven’t seen any displays of colour from my bedroom window yet, but I [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s all mental

I think that I should mentally prepare myself for winter. As well as the physical jackets, gloves and scarves, I need to find my little happy place, cause it’s going to be cold and wet and I need to be able to keep on track.  Everyone here hates the weather.  People complain about it all [...]

Read Full Post »

Thought of the day

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
  – Franz Kafka
My update – I need to work on the first one!

Read Full Post »

Was I dreaming?

I peered out the window this morning, in hopeful anticipation of a ‘winter wonderland’, but ther was really no evidence of last night’s snowfall.  Was I dreaming?  A lot of droplets of water around, but no evidence.  I ventured to the overground..man it’s cold and grabbed a metro paper and there it was in black [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s snowing – 10:30pm

If you are reading, imagine me dancing around in the snow…well not quite dancing but yes, the temp has hit 0 degrees and it is indeed snowing outside!  It is very light, but it has been falling for about 20mins or so.  It is really cold outside and the snow is becoming rain when it [...]

Read Full Post »

Chocolate peanuts

So I am not at the gym, but instead I am eating chocolate peanuts and watching Eastenders.   Fair trade isn’t it?  Actually it is frustrating and annoying and now I have to kick my butt and make up for it in the later part of the week.  So I am not feeling all the positive today [...]

Read Full Post »

Minus temps

OK, a little scary, the temperatures for the rest of this week are all below 10 degrees, during the day and Wed night is scheduled to be minus 2 degrees.  It is also dark by 5pm now, with the end of daylight savings.  So this is the start of winter.  I was hearing stories of [...]

Read Full Post »

Hampstead Heath

Hampstead and parts of Hampstead Heath was the destination for this Sunday.  England went off daylight savings last night, so got an extra hour of sleep, woken up by a housemate yelling out ‘What is the f”*!? cat doing inside…he later explained that a cat had found its way inside and scared the crap out [...]

Read Full Post »

Breakfast in Ealing

and lunch in Shepherds Bush and I walked to both so have done about 2hrs of walking today and have a sore butt!!  Also did grocery shopping and cleaning today and got my haircut!  The headache I was expecting this morning has now come-on, might be tired as well I think.  Been really thirsty, and [...]

Read Full Post »