Posts filed under “London Life”
Rowing training camp
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, and finally have gotten around to downloading the photos. (My wife’s photos; she’s the photographer in the family.) Thames Rowing Club spent just over a week in Temple-sur-Lot, France, which is about a 90-minute drive southeast of Bordeaux. The area is apparently well known for [...]
Penny
Friday, April 18th was a very sad day for us; we had to put our lovely cat Penny to sleep. We originally got Penny a year and a half ago, after we’d been living in our flat for about a year. We needed a totally indoor cat, as we didn’t have any easy outdoor space [...]
Today was the UK’s Unofficial “Workout after Work” Day
The UK “Workout after Work” Day is celebrated on the Monday evening after shifting to Daylight Savings Time. Here in the UK, that day was today. As expected, thousands of people that likely haven’t done any real working out in the past few months went running, cycling, walking or managed a similar workout this evening. [...]
We’ve moved!
We’ve moved! Don’t worry, you don’t need to update your addressbooks for us. We just moved from the first-floor flat to the ground-floor flat. It seems a little unnecessary, but we now have access to a garden! It was great to do it over a four day weekend (Friday and Monday are UK Bank Holidays, [...]
Head of the River Race 2008
So this last weekend I was finally able to race in the Head of the River Race; only my second time in four years. (2007 was cancelled because of absolute s**t water conditions, and in 2006 I was diagnosed with a broken rib just a few days before the race.) Considering that we only had [...]
Bad karma
is spending the entire weekend seat racing, only to find that the lift at work is broken down, thus needing to walk up and down six flights of stairs to get in or out of the office. Fun… And my hands are still torn up. (At least they’ve stopped feeling like someone has been bashing [...]
How to survive an earthquake in London
Step 1 – Stare curiously at the couch, trying to figure out if it’s moving because the neighbor downstairs is doing something strange. Step 2 – Realise that it’s rather late at night, so neither your neighbor downstairs nor the empty flat next door is responsible. Step 3 – Remember that it feels strangely like [...]
From the London Metro
I couldn’t pass up quoting this: A stunned schoolboy was given a birthday to remember when a stripper performed a no-holds-barred routine for him — while he was still in class. The youngster’s mother asked an agency to send a man dressed in a gorilla suit to mark his 16th birthday. But the booking got [...]