Mad English girl Down Under

  I love a good sleep like the next person, who doesn't, what I don't like is having little to no sleep on account of my brain not switching off for work. My 2.33 (yes its that exact, used to be 3.33 but why wait till 3.33 when you can be awake at 2.33, oh and it's AM as if you needed to be told!) anyway, my 2.33 brain is so proactive I have positive conversations with my team (just the ones that need it, you know - why wasn't this done, how much longer do you think this will take as I've already asked you 12 hundred times in the last month, what do you think you need to do, ARE YOU EVEN AN ADULT?? My official time to start is 7am but why wait until then hey, I like to start my glorious day of work at 6.30am, I convince myself it's so I can have some down time before everyone gets in, but that never happens.  7am is the allocated time for everyone to start ringing in with their ailments and excuses, I mean to tell me they're sick. Sadly I pretty much know ev...

Apologies, just saw that I never posted this from 2018 😕😲 Where was I in the last story... ah yes the first night of  New York. We stayed there for 5 days and did as much as can, including walking around 100 miles a day. At one stage I thought my fitness band was going to blow up, the step counter was going berserk. We all had blisters on blisters on blisters, but we kept going (and with no whinging, get us hey ;o) We saw the Natural History Museum (got to see Dumb Dumb, and no I don't mean Super's husband, I mean Dumb Dumb from Night at the museum) getting to the museum was interesting. Romantically and what is believed on Facebook, we cycled there singing songs and laughing and joking while in a haze of butterflies and dragonflies. In reality, due to Sean wanting to save money we hired city bikes, yeh great. Yes they were great don't get me wrong. But they had a fatal flaw. You could only hire them for 30 minutes at a time. So around the 20 minute mark of central park ...

Flicking through keep notes on my phone and I just came across this blog, not sure why I didn't finish it, maybe by some small rare chance I slept (yeh I doubt that too) anyway it's just a short funny little snippet from out fight back to the UK in 2023) Enjoy, but don't get comfy, you'll have it read in 5 minutes xoxo  Sean just had the audacity to say "you seem highly strung" I'm not sure what gave him that idea, the fact I've only had 3 seconds sleep, the fact I worked out before our 24 hr flight back to the UK, the fact I've drunk 4 glasses of bubbles, 1 vodka & diet coke (all important diet not full fat coke) plus 1 miniature bottle of wine, and in between I have had a 10 minute nap where he proceeded to tell me I looked like this (cue someone mouth wide open asleep looking gormless, that's a word that needs to be used more often) or that I've verbally attacked the guy behind me, look attack is strong I merely asked him to STOP KIC...

 My friend of almost 20 years very kindly met me from the airport, however, not my communication error but almost certainly 100% his, he thought when I said I land at 6.05 am I would indeed be springing off the areoplane into his arms at 6.06am.  I warned him several times over the 9 months of planning it would most likely be nearer 7.30am by the time I got off, got luggage and make it through customs. not my fault he chose to ignore that vital piece of information. So out I spring to my beautiful friend who hasn't aged a bloody day and the last time I saw him was my wedding 18 years ago, me needing a small Sherpa plus donkey for my luggage and we embrace less than a millisecond before he's rushing me off in a lift as he has to be at work at 9am and the hotel he's booked for me is 90 minutes away and the same for him to get back to work. He then announced he spent all night at the airport Incase the plane came in early and he missed me (I have no logical reply for that to b...

  I flew myself (well look I didn't fly the plane, merely I flew back by myself but that doesn't sound as fabulous the real way around) back to the UK, yes go me. Of course I was not over the weight limit before I even left Australia, and of course I knew exactly what I was doing and what time all my flights were. To pick up the story, this is how the flight from Singapore to the UK went ..... 3 wines in and I  think my "partner" is dead. No joke, he hasn't moved for the last hour and his head is on his chest. Should I raise the alarm, should I maybe check his neck for 2 seconds like they do in the films, no one ever surely gets a pulse that quick in real life, right? We were getting on so well, albeit the no eye contact. Jeez that bugs the shit out of me. But look he's my flying buddy for the next 13 hours so I'll give him a break. Plus he's a fellow Uk/ Aussie hybrid like me. So practically besties. My other bestie who I actually got 3 vodkas out o...

Who doesn't like a bargain?! Well I always do, but only if it benefits me. For example BOGOF on steak would not be a bargain for me, BLEUGH. But a chiropractor appointment with spine alignment AND free massage for a few dollars (the exact amount is not important, you get a free MASSAGE, that's the important part) worth it hey. Of course I googled it before I went, thank you trusty Google, some what knew where I was going (as if) and off I trotted after work with a skip and a leap. Finally I was going to be rid of stupid lower back annoyance and be able to finally do a back flip.  So, turns out that this Chiro place was indeed just in someone's garage, look, they had a fancy desk and some fake plants so it felt some what professional, the plastic chairs socially distanced, again some what professional. But what wasn't professional was that the 2 people that went in before me ..... who may I add were only in there for less than 10 minutes were put through some sort of tor...