Paul Kelly and Ges's Engagement Party

On Saturday we went to Paul and Ges's engagment party in Woking. Neil drank all the punch.

More photos through the link on the right ('link to more pics')

Ben and Jerry's Sundae at Clapham Common

Mmmmm...Ice Cream. Lots of it! We were out in force at Clapham Common this weekend for the Ben and Jerry's Sundae event. There was free Ice Cream!! And a Helter Skelter slide! Sam Jeffs ate 20 pots of Ice Cream!! See the pics (link on the right, as always) for...well... pics.

Benicassim Music Festival!

Well, we made it. There were loads of us there (about 20) and we saw lots of bands, went to the beach lot and were really, really hot!

My favourite band were We Are Scientists - so good!, and Art Brut were great too. Also saw Babyshambles (Pete Doherty was probably the most together that he's been in ages - we were quite surprised!), The Strokes, Pixies, The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, The Walkmen & the only good song they have, and ditto for The Ordinary Boys.

This pic is of me with DB and his weird/crazy friend, Adrian. It was about 3am and we had just watched DeUS - the best rock band to come out of Belgium, apparently. If this is the best rock from Belgium, then I'm definitely glad I'm not a Belgian!!!

Euugh!

Skinned sheeps heads and skins were for sale at the famous market in Barcelona. Yuck!!! 

Now I'm brown

This is probably the brownist I've ever been that I can remember! Not a great picture, but you get the idea!!! 

My new haircut!

Hey! This is my new haircut. I really like it and it has a lovely bit which I bleach and dye blue.

Also note how light I am here, then compare it to my Spain pics!!! I am SUPER brown now! 

Cambridge

This is me and Sam out in Cambridge. Her brother works there at a consulting company, and so a bunch of us went out there for Sat and Sun.

It was great! We hired bikes with baskets, did a tour of Cambridge with a very lively old lady (who was quite taken by Sam's brother Zak!), and then we went punting down the Cam with a picnic, strawberries and champagne! 

Hola!

I am in Barcelona at the moment! It´s super hot, but definitely better to be here than at work :)

Done lots of sightseeing here and even went to the beach yesterday. Was great to have a swim. The one thing London really needs is a proper beach. And don´t give me that Brighton crap. A pebble beach is not a real beach! And it´s over an hour away by train. (And I bruised the sole of my foot last time I paddled in the sea at the pebble beach. Hurt.)

I should mention my mishaps since arriving. In typical Emi-style, after taking about 3 hours to get to the hostel, which involved me walking in the completely opposite direction and so having to take a taxi back to the hostel, I put my jandals on, went down the marble stairs at the hostel and fell down them. Fortunately just the last few - got a wicked bruise on my arm. Then in the night I got disorientated and whacked my head against the wall. Got a lovely bump and a headache for the whole next day! Apart from all that has been good :)

Off to Benicassim for the music festival tomorrow (Weds) and hopefully we´ll do more swimming!

It's All Over for England (again)

So Saturday was the England v Portugal game.....

Well, went round to Matt, Grog, Hamish, Al, Ras and Sarah's and watched it there. (Okay, I just watched the last half hour.) But England lost! What more can you say really.

Fortunately for me though, Germany is still in. They're the team I drew in the work sweepstakes and I so need to win sweepstake prize money!! :) 

I passed!

I keep forgetting to tell people, but you know how work is paying for me to do a course - Post Graduate Certificate in Knowledge Transfer with Auril CPD. Well, the first half is an Open University course called Managing Knowledge (and can be credited to a MBA).

Anyways, I passed the course! Yay!!

Now I just have to do a six-month work based project. Which I am totally starting really soon!!

Wimbledon

This is me at Wimbledon! I saw Martina Navratrilova (I looked up the spelling!) in a women's doubles match, and then Andy Roddick (and I looked this one up too!) playing a singles match against Mayer (or something like that).

Wimbledon was okay - I just went for the evening after work. Had a couple of hours there and now I can tick it off the list of things to do in London. Can't say I thought it was that great. Guess it's not really for me, though I do enjoy playing tennis. (I played all through high school and totally sucked, but enjoyed myself!!)

By the way, this is my new hair cut for summer. It doesn't actually look that good in the pic though. And I have now dyed the bleached/red bits a blue/purple colour.