Find the Panda...

So its been quite a while since I updated this…I believe the last time you heard from me we had just arrived back into London town and were settling ourselves in. Now its a month or so later and we have set up home in a ground floor flat not to far from Canary Wharf which is quite exciting for us!… it’s the first time we have had a place all of our own…. although it is a bit scary to have signed ourselves up for a year… fingers crossed for us it all pans out!!!…. The place came furnished but without everyday essentials so we are now the proud owners of…get this…drum roll please… a KETTLE, TOASTER, VACUUM CLEANER, WATER FILTER, and so on and so forth! That shopping was rather fun what was not fun was the actual getting it from point A to point B and my legs are covered in bruises from bags swinging into me (I have to wear my long pants at the gym as members keep asking me if I’m abused) We have set up all our gears except our paintings which are waiting patiently to be framed I cant wait to see them up on the walls!…. Below are some pictures of our new pad I thought it might be fun to play a wee game….

This is Jonty Moo-ma very kindly knitted him for us for a flat warming present and he has fast become the third member of our household (no pets allowed Jonty you shall fill this gap)so the game goes like this in every picture I have hidden Jonty for you to find sometimes he’s right there staring you in the face other times you will have to look a bit harder hope you like it enjoy!!!

This is our lounge/dining/kitchen area its all lovely and open plan and opens up onto our (tiny) garden.

here's our kitchen (the kettle and toaster are ours!!)

here's a view of the lounge from in the kitchen...

and here's one from out in the garden.......

now this is exciting this is our entrance way and hallway!!! I'm standing in the doorway to our bedroom the second bedroom is off to the left and the main bathroom is off to the right...

this is our delightfilled bedroom...our ensuite door is next to me on the left....

this is our wee bathroom..excuse me shower room....

This is the second bedroom its about the same size as ours but looks huge at the moment as its a single bed in there...

And this is the main bathroom....(both bathrooms have dunnys i chose not to include them in the pictures cuz that would be gross)....

So did you find Jonty in each shot?

We have only been living in our new place for about 2 weeks but already we have a wonderful house guest (well not currently as she is off seeing Europe lucky bugger) but yay I got a week on holiday to show her round!…. Monday and Tuesday last week we finished moving and then last Wednesday I picked up Lisa from the airport at ridiculous o’clock and we spent several days hanging out catching up and eating pineapple lumps… (she also brought Burger rings and cheezles which LP ate so fast you would never have known they were here.)….. She arrived on the Wednesday so we didn’t really do a lot just chilled, put away our sainsburys delivery (I dropped bag of onions on Lisa's foot) and had a little wander around the shops… Lisa set up her bank account and somehow managed to come away with an awesome deal where most Nzers (us included) have failed!… On Thursday we did some jobs including setting her up with a nanny agency and me introducing her to the amazement that is hummus bros…. on Friday we braved oxford street (I got new boots woohoo) and then met with another Nzer and went for dinner an to see dirty dancing at the Alydwhich theatre…we pretty much had the time of our lives…Saturday we mostly chillaxed and had a wonder round Covent garden then I left her at the Contiki basement where she was to meet for her Europe travels…. Sunday it was back to work!!!

And so onto other news from our world LP has just applied for his new visa …INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN!!! This will mean that he is no longer required to get another visa…. in simple terms he will have permanent UK residency!!! The plan is to hang about for a wee while longer and get him his UK citizenship…. after that the world is our oyster and who knows where we will end up… (the dream is some land some dogs some pigs and to never have to wear shoes again…not in a hippy kind of way more the way of only Jandals and the occasional gumboot my feet were born to be freeeeeeee)… more LP news he is leaving his current job to work in LONDON ZOO! How cool is that!?! He will be part of the catering team but will spend everyday surrounded by all the animals hopefully I will get discount so I can go and take pictures and generally embarrass myself by acting like a child (as I do when around animals I cant help it they are just so cool…like me!)….

Any who hope you enjoyed find the panda and the catch up of our lives…. peace….