20050418 London Update 17 April 2005

Another week down and Lawrence and I are settling in nicely. We now wake up in the morning and say “What a nice day, clouds but no rain. 15 Degrees…get the sun block!”

I have completed 2 full weeks of work and am client based now, doing some work for an Education authority called City and Guilds. Interesting work and we are hoping to get some more coming our way, which will be nice for me. The client is in the city, near St Pauls Cathedral, anything in London is great.

Lawrence has been very busy with interviews, and we are holding thumbs for a couple of them. We really think that he will get something soon, the end of the month coming and all…let’s hope so. He is getting so frustrated at home. You can imagine, there is nothing to fix and no garden to play in.

Yesterday (Saturday) we took a trip to Wimbledon to find a barber for Lawrence. £22 for a hair cut, crazy people. So Lol is taking a trip to Oxford tomorrow to visit Shawn’s £7 barber, much better.

We then went on to IKEA…oh my word. What a place! You can imagine how big our eyes went. So many ideas, especially for small places. So before we come home, Lawrence and I will be doing some huge shopping there for our small townhouse. We only bought some tea towels, a lamp shade and some excellent Swedish Sweets, mmmm.

Today, we went to watch the London marathon. We went to the London Eye, about 5 miles from the finishing post and we saw the leading wheelchair athletes, men and ladies. They were going at a pace of note. We then strolled down to Buckingham Palace were the race ended and then walked through St James park to have a look at the flowers and ducks (Lawrence). There were so many people but the vibe was amazing. No drunkards and rowdy people, oh so civilized.

After that, we joined Nadia and Shawn at a little tea garden in the Wimbledon Common for some lunch and a stroll. There were so many people and families our enjoying the sun, quite a nice way to spend the afternoon (even got a bit of sun burn, amazingly). Now we are all ensconced in the flat doing Sunday night activities as per usual.

Next weekend we are planning to go through to Greenwich, something for Lawrence’s birthday!….watch this space.

Missing you all!

Gwyn and Lol