Good Hair Days ...every day!
Yes that's right people, I've finally got my own GHD's!! (super duper hair straighteners for those who don't know). I'm loving them...should have brought some years ago!! No more frizzy ponytails for me... Now I'll need to find something else to whinge about...
brighton
Lee-Ann, Niki and I went to Brighton on Saturday. It was primo weather, probably the best day we've had since arriving. Train takes an hour from Central London so no sleep-in for us. We had found out the night before that the Gay Pride Festival was also on in Brighton Saturday, the trains were therefore super crowded, we were lucky to get seats. Brighton is a pebble 
beach, awful to stand on without jandals and rather uncomfortable to lie on...but still i enjoyed the fact that there wasn't sand all through my stuff! you can hire deck chairs, loungers etc for about £2 but we did it the budget wayThe parade was definitely interesting! very flamboyant but the crowd wasn't as noisy and into it as I thought they would've been.
After the parade we just spent a few hours sunbathing and relaxing. We later went up to the Pier as there are a lot of carinval type rides there. We were all very brave and went on one of the best (yet scariest) rides i've been on.
After that it was about 9pm so we went out to dinner at a great thai place that Lee-Ann had been to. Niki said that it was the best thai green curry he has ever had... and that's all he has been talking about since.
We went to catch the 10.30pm train home but it was packed, managed to get on the 11pm one and even got a seat...but unfortunately it took 2 hours to get back to London, by which time the tube's had stopped...so on a night bus we hopped once again!! Safely tucked into bed finally at 2.30am!!
How many men does it take to...
The lawns at our flat are horrendous, at least knee deep in most places as well as vines, blackberry bushes, stinging nettle etc etc all over the place. Apparently the lawns haven't been mowed for nearly a year, even after much hassling of the agent. Everyone was getting a bit fed up with it, especially since it's summer (and the sun is actully shining) we want to be able to have a BBQ. The agent finally turned up a couple of weeks ago with a brand new mower ... an electric one! It was a bit of a joke, the machine would last for 1min then putt out. But after lots of determination some of the guys had a go over a few days & I'm pleased to say the lawn is finally mowed. Thanks Guys! 
The weekend of 28-29 July
Saturday we went to the O2 stadium as the Red Bull Air Race was on, we didn't want to pay £20 for a ticket but got to see quite a lot from outside the gates. It was very impressive. Saw a helicopter doing 'flips' in the air, i so thought it was going to crash.
We found a sushi place inside (surprisingly rare over here). The sushi comes wrapped in plastic and there aren't as many choices as at home... before going to sushi we got given a ticket for a a promotion and it ended up being 20% off sushi plus the guy gave us a voucher each for a cocktail (score!). After our scrumptious FREE cocktails we headed back on the tube into the city to Hyde Park to meet some of our flatmates at a 'kiwi' picnic thing. (note the pak'n save bags in the pic! ...someone's dedicated!) We had to find a grocery store first, which proved nearly impossible as we had stumbled across the posh part of town, Harrods, designer clothes
etc. At the park we just laxed out in the sun, had a few drinks and nibbles while people around us were playing cricket, touch rugby and frisbee. Unfortunately no-one really itnereacted outside their 'group' that they were there with but we still had a fun arvo. At about 7ish we invited ourselves to our flatmate's friends "going away" drinks and had a fun time there before heading into a bar for a while. They had a thousand different flavours of vodka so of course i tried a couple of shots! next thing the music stopped and it was all over...they closed at 12.30am. and then the real adventure began of getting home... 3hours later!!! we had to change buses 3 times I think, and each time we had to wait at least 20mins cos they don't run very often at night. Plus there was a horrible drunk old man at one of the stops that wouldn't stop harrassing us. ICKY
We found a sushi place inside (surprisingly rare over here). The sushi comes wrapped in plastic and there aren't as many choices as at home... before going to sushi we got given a ticket for a a promotion and it ended up being 20% off sushi plus the guy gave us a voucher each for a cocktail (score!). After our scrumptious FREE cocktails we headed back on the tube into the city to Hyde Park to meet some of our flatmates at a 'kiwi' picnic thing. (note the pak'n save bags in the pic! ...someone's dedicated!) We had to find a grocery store first, which proved nearly impossible as we had stumbled across the posh part of town, Harrods, designer clothes
etc. At the park we just laxed out in the sun, had a few drinks and nibbles while people around us were playing cricket, touch rugby and frisbee. Unfortunately no-one really itnereacted outside their 'group' that they were there with but we still had a fun arvo. At about 7ish we invited ourselves to our flatmate's friends "going away" drinks and had a fun time there before heading into a bar for a while. They had a thousand different flavours of vodka so of course i tried a couple of shots! next thing the music stopped and it was all over...they closed at 12.30am. and then the real adventure began of getting home... 3hours later!!! we had to change buses 3 times I think, and each time we had to wait at least 20mins cos they don't run very often at night. Plus there was a horrible drunk old man at one of the stops that wouldn't stop harrassing us. ICKY
Slugs
The slugs over here are massive, and there are lots of them everywhere when it rains! gross!!!! here's a pic of one, i was brave enough to put my chapstick next to it so u can see how huge it is!
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