I’ve been to the London Transport Museum, Glasgow, Coventry, York, Whitby, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Windemere, and Liverpool.

I have seen punk shows, and I have the Rebellion Festival coming up in Blackpool. I have met someone, and even more shows coming up! Also: coloured and multicoloured hair in the mohawk style.

I got a job selling spare parts for appliances at eSpares.co.uk, I have already been promoted even!

Evicted from old flat in Maida Vale, and have a new flat on the Kilburn High Road, which is about 10-15 minute walk from old flat. Managed to hold on to existing flatmate, thank fuck.

More bank problems, because LloydsTSB, and the rest of the banking system here, is abysmal.

Most importantly, I have TONS of photos. It is just a bloody pain to sift them!

Further blog updates? Well, I have written some about my very interesting experiences in Glasgow over the Easter weekend, but will they see the light of day? Not for a while I’m sure.

Sorry everyone, it takes a lot of time to write and edit the posts,  sort photos, convert them, labels and tags, etc. It just isn’t something that is a priority right now for various reasons.

I would like to thank everyone who has read my blog, and has been periodically checking it.

Sticker for the Bobby on Pride

My blog, after much procrastination, is finally 100% up-to-date.

What that means from now on is that I will only be creating posts when something interesting happens, and I will NOT be keeping a large backlog again. When I post a new entry, I will more than likely share a link on Facebook from now on.

I appreciate everyone who has kept an eye on my blog, even though my stats are showing that nobody actually looks at the massive amounts of pictures I have posted. You usually need to click to get to them.

To leave you for tonight, here is a picture of a fox stencil by graffiti artist Banksy that he did by my place.

I was going to take a picture myself on the way to the museum, but the council has already had it covered up by unmatching paint that makes it looks worse than it did.  As a result, I got this picture off my flatmate Alex.

Banksy Fox

Cheers!

Hehehehe...

Well, I have got a new job starting on Tuesday, after a month of stress trying to find work. It is a call centre position for eSpares.co.uk. Should be good, but I’m nervous.

I decided that on one of my last days of freedom, I should actually do something.

So I did. A mate and I went to the British Museum. Now, I have been there before, but it was very rushed so I missed a lot. It really is a massive place.

So, it is really cool wandering around. I covered some ground I had already seen before, and found some things I had no idea were there. It really is amazing to look at all of the pillaged artefacts. It’s great that such history is free to see as well.

But…

It only took 2 hours to get bored, so I vowed to go back. We went and had food afterwards.

How exciting. Pictures!

After the storm...

Alright, so I am NOT coming home just yet!

I had an interview on Monday, and an interview this morning.

I got offered the position for the one I had on Monday, and I am taking it!

I start on February 1, 2011.

I am now 100% sorted!

Thanks everyone!

My baby friend and I

It’s been a rather stressful week and a half of job hunting. This city is very messed up, and nobody makes it easy to do anything. Bloody pain in the ass!

I won’t bore you with the details, instead I will continue on to the good part.

The Natural History Museum!

Ooooh...

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To relax a bit, I decided to take some of my new free time and go there with a friend. It has been a while since I’ve been to any museum… Actually, like, since July. Shocking… Wait, not true! There was that uber-quick tour of the London Museum, but I’m not going to count that. I don’t even have any pictures of it.

Now, I have attempted in the past to go to this particular one, but the queue has always been outrageous. It was a pleasant surprise that there was none here on this day, thankfully. Well… Not quite…

Inside the first section to visit is the dinosaurs. That is where the queue was on this particular day. I can only imagine it being more severe on busy days, when outside the lineup goes ’round the block. So, okay, whatever, coping. After going through the section, I think the Edmonton museum has a better dinosaur collection… But the animatronics on the T-Rex were pretty cool.

Anyways, moving on. Stuff in jars (LOTS), whale bones, lots of shiny rocks. Very cool earthquake platform, and some other interactive exhibits. Overall it was pretty cool. I skipped things I thought were rather boring. The Victoria & Albert museum (previously mentioned a few times) is still my favourite thus far.

I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but enjoy the ones I did.

So, Happy Birthday to me now!

Wake up, and I am sick as a dog. Alex was kind enough to bring home a bottle of Vodka for my birthday, and when he came into the living room I was covered in blankets and laying in the foetal position in front of the fire.

Yeah, that continued until Christmas Eve. Missed a job interview due to it, but I also missed work so there is a plus.

Christmas Eve I did go to work, but it wasn’t so bad, with more days off coming up after!

Christmas was uneventful. We slept in, made pizza (from scratch!), drank booze, and went to bed.

After that there is to be no job hunting until into the new year, due to everything being shut down for the rest of the month essentially. Oh well.

New Years, I was in bed by 11:30 because I needed to work. I did sort-of think about going to the fireworks, but decided against it. Too much hassle, too many people. I later watched a video on YouTube, and now I am thinking I should maybe have gone! lol…l Ah well, next year, if I’m still floating.

Anyways, that’s aboot it. In a few more days some serious job hunting starts!

Suit and tie.

Well, my contract at Westminster Abbey is not being renewed, so that means I need to start looking for work. I borrowed a suit off of a friend, and proceeded to do just that. December just seems like a terrible time to be looking for work, what with half the month pretty much shut down.

Oh well, after my first foray into job hunting, it was time to let off some steam.

PAPA ROACH AND DISTURBED AT WEMBLEY ARENA!

Fucking hell. First Papa Roach and Rammstein, now Papa Roach and Disturbed.
What a fucking blast!

As expected, Papa Roach’s setlist wasn’t too great, DISTURBED FUCKING ROCKED. Had a great time. Front and centre, glad I wasn’t sick again. Got another autograph from Papa Roach’s bassist.

Wait, I suppose I have one picture I can share…

Me and beer in Birmingham.

Cya later, folks.

Life Guards and I.

Another gloomy grey day in London.

My friend Chris and I decided to go down to St. Paul’s Cathedral and watch the Lord Mayor’s Show.

Here is a little blurb from Wikipedia:

“The Lord Mayor’s Show is one of the longest established and best known annual events in London which dates back to 1535. The Lord Mayor in question is that of the City of London, the historic centre of London that is now the metropolis’s financial district, informally known as the Square Mile. A new Lord Mayor is appointed every year and the public parade that is made of his inauguration reflects the fact that this was once one of the most prominent offices in England. The ancient position of Lord Mayor of London has a role in the Square Mile, whilst the Mayor of London (which has existed only since 2000) is a different individual entirely, namely the elected head of the Greater London Authority.

The event is a street parade which in its modern form is a fairly light-hearted combination of traditional British pageantry and elements of carnival. On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor and several others participate in a procession from the City of London to the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of Westminster, where the Lord Mayor swears his allegiance to the Crown.”

Now, being the slightly lazy person I am, especially on a day off, we were a little late… A lot late. Which sounds worse than it is. We missed the massive crowds of people that saw the parade on the first part of its circuitous route. Luckily, we caught most of the rest a half block away in front of the Millennium Bridge.

Now, my picture taking wasn’t all too good on this day. Lots of blurry shots at first. So, a lot of the pictures involving many people in uniforms with big guns have been removed.

So, ultimately a parade is a parade, and people walk and do things. Pretty cool. The real highlight for me was all the uniforms, the police officer standing in front of me, and the horseguards that we ran into afterwards while walking away. Got a quick picture in front of them.

After that it was a walk through the City of London, which is the oldest part. We actually went to the London Museum. It was so jam packed full of people and children that we really did a rush tour. I took no photographs, because I didn’t think I could get any nice ones with that many people crammed into such a poorly organized space. Means I need to go back is all.

Home time! Cheers

St Paul's and Millennium Bridge

Went for a walk with a friend and took some pretty pictures!