The Weekend That Was

Met up after work on Friday night with some friends and some of their friends and so on – all in all a group of about 20 of us, and we did a Jack the Ripper guided tour walk, which was very cool and interesting. We found out quite a bit more about London both now and then – three million people inhabited the one square mile that is the City of London in 1888 - the year of the killings, as opposed to the ten thousand that live there now. The last part of the tour where we ended up would have been almost as it was back in 1888 with the cobbled streets and gas street lights etc. All this for only £5.

We finished the tour close to Brick Lane so about half the group went for that great ‘traditional’ English meal – the curry, which Brick Lane is famous for. We negotiated a 30% discount and free round of drinks, and had a few good laughs Left about 11.30pm and headed home, got home about 1am and had a phone call from Nona back home.

Saturday.
Met a couple of friends and went shopping for costumes for the British themed party tonight, scored an inflatable Big Ben as my costume while the others got theirs. Had Maccas for lunch and went to the scene of the party. Got the essentials i.e. beer and the party kicked off later that night. A great time was had by all, I only wish I had a pound for every time my Big Ben got squeezed. Stayed the night there on the couch – finally to sleep about 4am.

Sunday:
Bacon and eggs for breakfast from the very accommodating hosts and then watched a bit of the cricket - Aussie v The World X1, the third one dayer from Melbourne - Aussie absolutely kicked ass and won by 157 runs.

Hung around for the A1 Grand Prix from Germany, the Kiwi team did well again and came fourth in both races and are now tied for second with France in the overall competition, only one point behind Brazil, good stuff lads.

Headed home, grabbed some essential groceries on the way. Caught up with a couple of the flatties, watched an episode of that classic show Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em, which I haven’t seen for years, crashed out for a couple of hours from exhaustion. Watched Cocktail and then the F1 highlights – great race. Ahhh what an awesome weekend and now it’s back to work to recover.