- 09:08 @trisha_gee I think you should give the foot a rest and try a 5k hop :) #
- 09:09 So excited to be seeing Jenn! Picking her up at Heathrow and seeing her off to Luton, just a transfer this time. #
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 17:05 @trisha_gee and that right there is why I love this place :) #
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 21:10 @ala1ne I was quite happy with the card splitting too :) and the writing acctests first too #
- 21:12 @barsoomcore I *heart* Hudson #
- 21:18 Just finished a wonderful chilled & relaxed climb with @ala1ne. We so need to do this more often! #
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 10:13 Just got a cool Loch Ness monster coffee mug from our Product Owner for helping with some stuff last week. Love the mug! #
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 15:47 @ala1ne tasty tasty! What a great way to be welcomed back into the UK, beautiful weather and Sunday roast with friends :D #
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 07:40 At Paddington, waiting for the Heathrow Express to leave. Just missed one as I arrived. Hope I make my flight! twitpic.com/5r3us #
- 08:44 All through security and whatnot, just eating breakfast now and waiting for them to announce the gate. Only slightly hungover, thankfully. #
- 09:19 Successfully navigated Heathrow T5, hope my bag did too. Waiting at the gate now. Venice, here I come. Sun! #
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 07:50 Woke up early today, just couldn't sleep any later. Out the door already, and it's not even 8. #
- 08:27 Great British summer / too short, too cold, what a lark / Venice, here I come. #
- 23:52 Left pub early to pack tonight before flying tomorrow, but ran into flatmate on way home. 7 pint later, feeling less optimistic about flying #
Friday, May 22, 2009
Daily Twitter Update
- 07:27 Gah, what crawled into my mouth and died. #
- 07:42 Landlords finally replaced the broken toilet seat. Yay. #
- 09:18 How is it that "a couple drinks" always seems to turn into "closing the pub down"? Great evening with @ala1ne, @trisha_gee, and company. #
Monday, May 18, 2009
Wonderful Sunday
I had such a wonderful day on Sunday, I feel like I should write about it.
Sunday morning, I wandered over to Patisserie Valerie, a French bakery restaurant a couple blocks from my flat. It was raining, but I took my umbrella. I got a pain au chocolat and a latte, and retreated back to my flat. I ate breakfast and played around on my computer for a bit, more or less killing time until 2, when I was meeting a couple co-workers and one of their partners for brunch. One of them is into photography as well, so we had made plans to go take photos if the weather was relatively decent. One o'clock rolled by, and I headed out to the tube to get down to Soho. We met for brunch at a place called the Breakfast Club. I had the "all American" for breakfast, which was pancakes with maple syrup, two fried eggs, a sausage, and some bacon. It was fantastically good. I haven't had pancakes and maple syrup since I was back in Vancouver in February. I'd forgotten how good bacon is too with maple syrup.
After our fantastic brunch, we decided that despite the fact that it was raining on and off, we'd go take photos. We caught a tube down to Chancery Lane, just on the edge of "the City", the core financial business district (or at least it used to be before Canary Wharf started to take over.) There's so little in the way of residential down there, and not a whole lot of touristy stuff, so it's practically a ghost town on the weekend, but there's plenty of opportunities for photography. There are some great buildings, and just all sorts of interesting things.
We wandered around there taking photos until around 6:30, at which point the rain picked up, and we found a pub to hole up in with drinks for a while. One of my co-workers, and her partner, headed home from there, and my other co-worker and I headed in the general direction of our respective homes, but decided to find a pub with decent food and have dinner and a couple more drinks. We found a nice pub near her flat, and we both ended up having the Sunday roast. It was, by far, the best pub roast I've ever had. The roast beef was cooked perfectly, with a nice pink middle. The roast potatoes were deliciously crispy on the outside, and not too hard, not too soft on the inside.
All in all, the day could hardly have been any better, even with the way it rained. Great scenery to see, wonderful photo ops, tasty food, but most importantly, excellent company and interesting conversations.
Sunday morning, I wandered over to Patisserie Valerie, a French bakery restaurant a couple blocks from my flat. It was raining, but I took my umbrella. I got a pain au chocolat and a latte, and retreated back to my flat. I ate breakfast and played around on my computer for a bit, more or less killing time until 2, when I was meeting a couple co-workers and one of their partners for brunch. One of them is into photography as well, so we had made plans to go take photos if the weather was relatively decent. One o'clock rolled by, and I headed out to the tube to get down to Soho. We met for brunch at a place called the Breakfast Club. I had the "all American" for breakfast, which was pancakes with maple syrup, two fried eggs, a sausage, and some bacon. It was fantastically good. I haven't had pancakes and maple syrup since I was back in Vancouver in February. I'd forgotten how good bacon is too with maple syrup.
After our fantastic brunch, we decided that despite the fact that it was raining on and off, we'd go take photos. We caught a tube down to Chancery Lane, just on the edge of "the City", the core financial business district (or at least it used to be before Canary Wharf started to take over.) There's so little in the way of residential down there, and not a whole lot of touristy stuff, so it's practically a ghost town on the weekend, but there's plenty of opportunities for photography. There are some great buildings, and just all sorts of interesting things.
We wandered around there taking photos until around 6:30, at which point the rain picked up, and we found a pub to hole up in with drinks for a while. One of my co-workers, and her partner, headed home from there, and my other co-worker and I headed in the general direction of our respective homes, but decided to find a pub with decent food and have dinner and a couple more drinks. We found a nice pub near her flat, and we both ended up having the Sunday roast. It was, by far, the best pub roast I've ever had. The roast beef was cooked perfectly, with a nice pink middle. The roast potatoes were deliciously crispy on the outside, and not too hard, not too soft on the inside.
All in all, the day could hardly have been any better, even with the way it rained. Great scenery to see, wonderful photo ops, tasty food, but most importantly, excellent company and interesting conversations.
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