Felt really queezy today, was over tired and all the emotions of leaving was catching up with me. Someone came early this morning taking our bed and dresser, sold via Gumtree.  Very nice chap, polite too.  Its good to know that there are decent people in this country. Our friends Shani, Michael and Jess came [...]

Readers of this blog will know I am not a fan of bendy buses since we were in an accident with them ourselves.  So many people moan about them about being a hazzard to other drivers on the road but also to passengers traveling on them.  Certainly they keep popping up in the news and [...]

This was the most emotional of days leading up to our departure. One of the worst things about moving overseas is saying goodbye to family even though I am not saying goodbye as I will be speaking to them on the phone and over the internet very frequently.  I guess its the thought that I [...]

Another day of things coming to a close in the UK: Saying goodbye to some people who are leaving the office before me (seems to be a mass exodus from the University) The last time I will ever go to Mega City Comics (not a bad thing since the guy on the front counter was [...]

Another major step today in our move to Vancouver and that is the removal company coming by to take our stuff away.  The company we are using is Anglo Pacific, they have been very polite and professional, and their removal people were early and did a very quick job.  I was quite impressed.  They did [...]

Statistical breakdown of the day: 9 days left in UK, 6 days left at the office – yay. Really tired going to work this morning, the dust has been effecting me and had problems breathing over the past few days. This was my last day at the Aldgate Campus and really pleased about that as [...]

This weekend was a three days long with Monday being a Bank Holiday, well needed as we had a lot to do.  Most of it was sorting out stuff to go with us to Vancouver, or not to go as the case may be, so here are the highlights. On Sunday we went to Chinatown [...]

EEEEEKKKK!  Only 12 days to go, only 6 days of those at work.  Yay. We got a few things done this morning, the main one getting some papers witnessed by our bank.  They are quite helpful and efficient in there which is very good, they even offered to fax something to Canada for us. The [...]

Wednesday already…where is the week going to? At St Pancras Station this morning I went into Pret a Manger to get my lunch since I didn’t really have time to make it after getting up.  I got myself one of their breakfast sandwiches which are ok. I took more beannie babies into the office for [...]

Kinda struggled with this question a little apart from the first bullet point: Family and Friends Ribena – its hard to believe the range of products that this company now produces.  I remember as a kid there was only 1 choice, the one that supposed to have had 16 sugar cubes per glass.  I think [...]

Another strike?  Yes, another tube strike pops up every now and again to surprise Londoners, everyone talks about how they are going to be inconvenienced and then they call it off at the last moment [Going Underground Blog].  They seem to call strikes too frequently and people are loosing sympathy for them, at least that [...]

Seems totally untrue that we have only 17 days before we leave for Canada.  So much to do at work and at home I am not sure how we are going to fit it all in. Don left his office last week so he can concentrate on getting things sorted for the removal people and [...]

Today we met up with our friend Ed to go to Soho Pride.  The event had made it to the news because Boris Johnson had withdrawn some funding for next years event, its only 10,000 GBP from what I can gather so maybe businesses will have a whip round to raise it.  There were collection [...]

Been an interesting experience canceling all the various utilities that we pay for in the UK, some has been stressful, some has been surprisingly easy.  I share my experience below and give them a rating. Camden Council :: Not bad, all done by online form so I didn’t have to talk to a human.  They [...]

Undoubtedly as you will see from my previous post I was extremely stressed out about today working out, our visit to the BBC to see Last Choir Standing.  This was mostly due to a blog entry someone had wrote in the Daily Telegraph, this made us wise as to what to expect during the day. [...]

Couple of months ago I applied to get tickets for the BBC Show Last Choir Standing as I thought this would be great to take my Mother and her next door neighbor.  I was called last week to say that we got picked to be in the audience and to turn up at 4pm.  My [...]