Puddy cat

Poppet all wrapped up.

House view

Well, the house viewing was certainly interesting. And certainly has got us thinking. We liked the house but it needs an awful lot of work. It's perfectly livable as it is but it's a 10 year plus project.  And with it costing so much in the first place a very good deal must be made to make it viable.And to add to that, it's grade 2 listed so would have all that fun working with the council just to change a light bulb...

Saying that, our house isn't even on the market yet so we're not really in a position to do anything anyway. What it has done though it's kick is into action.

Watch this space.

2 fingers one game

First game in a while and knackered two fingers. Good game though 27-19 versus our local rivals Tunbridge Wells.

£312.50 off

I renewed my train season ticket yesterday and got over £300 off. No special discount, just 50 or so penalty vouchers for running late or the last year for both me and April.

They didn't make it easy either. In all it took around 30 mins. First I had to fill in my details on the back of each ticket. Then he scanned the barcode on each and wrote something on the back. Once that was done he then feed each into a machine that I'm not even sure what it did.

Still had to pay £3,500 though. Not really worth it.

Bloody jet lag

Went to bed at 7pm last night and fell straight to sleep. I woke up at 2am however. 7 hours isn't bad but it's going to be a long night.

Australia trip day 12

Out doesn't really count as a day as all we did was go for a dip in the hotel roof top pool then drive to the airport. You can make out the Sydney Harbour Bridge of you look hard enough.

The last picture is of the rain outside as we were waiting for our plane home. We're not missing much.

Australia trip day 11

This was the day when we did most of the driving. Around 600km, took us about 6 or 7 hours. The scenery was very nice so didn't seem that bad. Afterwards we had a look round Manly (where we were staying) and saw a man walking a cat. As you do...

I also saw Emile Heskey score! He's playing out there in the A-league.

Australia trip day 10

We went to one of the Day on the Green festivals on day 10, the one in the Peterson's vineyard. The only bands of heard of were Something for Kate and Hunters and Collectors.

It was a great day despite the torrential rain for half of it. The music was good, the wine was nice (I'd moved on from beer as they could only sell it at less that 3.5% at a music festival!). 

As we'd booked it all late we had to go for the platinum package. Almost front and centre seats, fenced off seating area and a no queue bar!

Australia trip day 9

Day 9 was fairly sedate. We drove to April's mum's place for lunch, saw the new place she's renovating and her two dogs. After that we drove to Armidale where we were going to a musical festival the next day.

Here's our car again and a helicopter parked 20m away.

The Clarkle has landed

On route to Tonbridge in a mini cab from Heathrow. Urgh. Not too bad for me as I managed to get a few hours sleep. April's shattered though.

Back to work tomorrow. Yeah! Hopefully it'll be a quiet week.