The s**t hit the fan at work today. Last week I sent a memo to my line management to get them to do something about the poor conditions there; freezing cold in the winter, baking hot in the summer, creepy crawlies everywhere, and more importantly continuing thefts of personal items. There is so much they [...]

Thanksgiving is not recognised in the UK, because its either a US or Canadian holiday, so we couldn’t get the day of from work on Thursday. So, we celebrated our Thanksgiving today, Sunday. Don started cooking pretty early, I went out to Sainsbury’s to get some bits and pieces. Ed arrived at 2pm and we [...]

We had a busy weekend which started off getting up early Saturday morning to go visit my parents. We left quite early to avoid the crazy people. My father wasn’t really any worse than the last time we visited him but certainly not in good shape. He had lost his watch, broken his glasses and [...]

We had a nice day with our friend Ed today. We left home at 11:00 and caught the bus replacement service to Highgate. Something is up on the north bound Northern Line at the weekends so they were laying on bus transport between subway stations. Ed made us a wonder lunch starting off with a [...]

Today we went to Spitalfields to get some christmas presents to send to Don’s friends in the US, however, none of the markets were open yet. I don’t know people in the London get an income as whenever we want to buy something nothing is ever open. Oh well. We went in Patisserie Valerie near [...]

I haven’t written much this week because I haven’t been feeling too good, a cold that was hanging around and felt quite run down. This afternoon Don and I registered at a new doctor’s here and Camden and they found I had high blood pressure. This is probably due a stressful year, all the bitching [...]

I am starting to seriously look at other jobs now. Because I didn’t have any work when I came back to the UK I took the job at London Metropolitan University fairly quickly. It is not a happy place and the continuing office politics is really getting on my nerves, preventing me from doing a [...]

Oh gosh, my workplace, all the time, many of the people…bitch, bitch, bitch. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. It makes me really sad that they all behave that way. Not a good place to work at all. I don’t think the students have a good view of it either. Sigh!

We went to see my parents today. The trip was stressful in itself, as we were going into Fenchurch Street a horrible woman barged past me. Then on the train another woman was being pestered by a pervert, we told her to sit on our seat and eventually I suggested we move to another coach [...]

This morning we met our friend Ed at Camden Town and made our way on a couple of trains to Battersea Power Station to a chinese art exhibition. It turned out that the power station was more entertaining than the art. It was about $7.50 to go in which gave us free access around the [...]

Don went back to work today, even though I don’t think he was well enough but he said he felt good enough to go.