Mad English girl Down Under

After nearly 2 amazing fab years of living in Australia we decided it was time to fly back to the UK (plus the trip was paid for and we had to go back within the 2 years, but nevertheless) our lovely friend Lex was due to pick us up at 3pm, we had a slight wobble 20 minutes before when Sean started shrieking “We have to book in Mad by 3pm”. “Oh ok” I tell him. All of a sudden our calm lazy Sunday waiting and chilling for Lex drastically became a shrieking match and frantic googling “latest check ins” “Qantas telephone number” and “in flight  movies” (well I was curious). We finally concluded that we were ok we had until 3.40pm to check in. Yay us. Still shrieking and Sean checking his watch every 3 seconds we got to the airport on time, baggage checked and that all important question asked “do you have spare or loose batteries” “no, of course we don’t” but no that’s not true “I do” a little voice pipes up. Ob is then asked to get said batteries and put in his hand luggage. We wave...

I should be looking for jobs (yes I know when aren't I) funnily enough the last job I applied for which happened to be about the 5th time of applying I got the ever faithful standard response "you have been unsuccessful" they always ask if you want more feedback then to email, so I do only to be told again "you were unsuccessful" as if hearing it the first time wasn't bad enough. This time though was erm slightly better I think? You decide. "You failed to include 2 referee's, you didn't upload your resume and you sent in a blank form for the selection criteria" OK, but apart from that at least I spelt my name right and put the right email address. Brownie points for me I think. I actually blame Sean (when don't I) he supposedly helped me the last time, so as he's the technical master it surely has to be his fault? It took me back to my art exam when I was 13, we had a double lesson of 1 hour 10 minutes to draw anything, absolutely...

A quick trip to Melbourne this weekend to celebrate our very happy 13 years of marriage. Yay us. As you remember we went there last year and thats where we witnessed the hook turns. To turn right you must turn left. This year we learnt about crossing the road to a countdown and diagonally. You could actually cross in any direction we just wanted to do diagonal because we never have and it felt odd let me tell you. We waited for the first countdown to go as we weren't sure that 30 seconds was enough time to get across the road. While we were away we thought we'd go clubbing, as Melbourne is known for being hipster and cool much like ourselves we thought we'd dust the old white gloves and glo sticks off and party like it's 1999. So, after much deliberation and several minutes spent googling "Best place to party in Melbourne" (I discounted the swingers clubs it came up with and hid Sean's truck keys...... just in case) tried googling "Clubs that pla...

Yes I know the title is a long one, I may change it. In which case I'll have to delete this sentence, which will be a pain as I'm on a roll typing but there you go. Who knows. Last Monday I jumped in my beautiful little car and ever so carefully started driving off when all of a sudden this boy on a bike appeared from no where (well that's a slight lie, he snuck out from beside Sean's stupid ute that is supposed to be getting sold not looking like a permanent fixture on my driveway) So as my bumper somehow managed to make contact with him and his bike, my first thought and don't shout at me was "OH MY GOD, IS MY CAR OK" you see I really do love my car, very very much. Then quickly thought oh my goodness that poor boy, relax, he wasn't on the floor he was still standing. Out I jumped and the poor mite was so apologetic, he was just as concerned about my car as I was. I told him not to worry while sneakily trying to see if there were any marks (just a ...

Hey people, as we morn the loss of a great sporting hero Muhammed Ali I feel it's only right that I have my first boxing class at the gym. With the words from the great Muhammed embedded on my mind 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee' I was pumped and super ready to go throw some punches. I persuaded Charlotte to come with me but only if I promised not to laugh at her. Which of course I did with my fingers crossed behind my back.  So we rock up to the gym and it's heaving.... I've never seen it so full, when I go at 5.30am (yes get me 5.30am, smug smile!) It's quiet. So a little panic starts to creep up, but I'm super pumped so can't let this deter me. I spy the instructor getting the gloves out so off we go along with luckily only 6 other people.  We're made to stand in a line facing the mirror and told to run on the spot. Cool, no problem with this so I'm happy running on the spot till we're told to run faster and with high knee...

It's been a while hasn't it, sincere apologies but you see I have been busy at my new job! A little while ago I got called totally out of the blue and got invited to an interview. Always makes me chuckle when you get that phone call or letter saying they're very pleased to invite you for said interview. Now this is all very well and good... if you can remember out of the 55 thousand jobs you've applied for just which one you've been invited too. Now in the past I'm not afraid to tell you that I've actually made a few errors with interviews such as going to the wrong place... asking for whom I thought was interviewing me, turns out there was actually someone of that name working there but was in a different branch. After frantic phone calls from the staff to this manager I quickly realised my error.  But ended up walking out with an interview the next day at the wrong place. I have sat in an interview and told the panel in great detail how great I am at b...

Thought I'd treat myself to a massage so I kept a beady eye on good old groupon and bought one the other day. I was quite hasty to buy it because I'd been sent an extra 20% off, didn't really read the full advert as like I said I had an extra 20% off. Checked it was local, tick. Check the valid until date, tick. Checked code number tick, bought deal tick. Last week when I booked it I read it properly....... FULL body massage...... Gulp. I only wanted my back sorting, but thought it couldn't be that bad. Surely. When I eventually found the massage parlour it looked .... very much like erm a "massage parlour" you all know what I mean. Neon lights flashing, seady curtains draped over every inch of window. In I go and announce my arrival, scan groupon code and get asked "what massage" I'd had a quick chat with a friend at work and he said a remedial one is better as they get all the knots out. So that's what I asked for. I got shown to my be...