A wee catch up on our lives...

Outside waiting for the taxi...

Sitting waiting for the train (outside the gates) with all our bags...

And we are off...

So for those of you who don't now we are back in London we arrived here on Tuesday with mounds of baggage (two (big) backpacks, two suitcases,LPs cricket bag,a giant blue Ikea bag and our laptop don't judge we just moved our entire lives from Truro to London they are five hours away from each other)... but as usual I'm getting ahead of myself....

the last few weeks we have spent editing our thousands upon thousands of photos, packing up all our worldly belongings and of course spending time with family and friends that's you all caught up on our lives from when we got back until last Tuesday....

I'm gonna set the scene here.... its Tuesday morning Leigh is up before 10am for the first time in weeks we have huge amounts of luggage and we arrive at Truro train station in a taxi...when we get there we find that annoyingly they have built a huge barrier around the platform so only travellers can get onto it we also find that the train has changed time...no wait we just always had the wrong time so have to wait a further 20Min's....so we sit just off the platform chatting away until its time to make our move the train was quite busy so we had to hurry on and get space for all our luggage luckily our carriage was full but everyone just seemed to have small bags so we could fill up the luggage rack all by ourselves so the next five hours go by and hey presto we are in London...where we decided to taxi to our accommodation rather then lug all our shite on the tube the good news was it was our first ever ride in a black cab in London the bad news was it almost bankrupted us as we got stuck in traffic...oh dear... well anyway that was the excitement that was travelling to London now what have we been doing since then???....

Well...Leigh got himself a job and starts on Tuesday, i have started to apply for jobs (that i don't really want as in reality i just want to be a permanent traveller forever!), we have spent time in the sunshine, got frozen yoghurt, shopped at Waitrose our local (budget breaker!!!), we got LP some new Jandals and us both new sunglasses, we have written lists, lists and more lists and crossed off a few things but mostly added more, we have made discs of all our photos to send to peeps in NZ, we have unpacked and repacked and then unpacked again followed by one more repack (to try and get stuff out of the way), we have looked online at somewhere more permanent to live, we have looked at new cellphones (since the 4 on mine refuses to work do you know how hard it is to send a text without the letters G,H and I in it? if i have to write Leigh I'm screwed!) and we have spent ALOT of time on FB and watching the IPL (Leigh is in heaven with the sports news channel) and now LP has just applied for us to get tickets to be part of the audience for The Rob Brydon show, QI and A league of their own....well that was a wee catch up on our lives now i better head off and do something productive...PEACE....

London calling

So today we are off to London town for two glorious reasons... the first being to visit my lovely NZer friends for a few days of general touristyness (I'm the tour guide heck yes!) i cant wait to hear tales from the travels to three lovely cities Edinburgh, Paris and Rome all of which we have explored and loved! ...and the second is to leave LP at Heathrow so he can journey back to the land of the long white cloud for a few weeks of family friends and fun... normally when we go anywhere together for a short stay we go minimal and simplistic sharing a tiny wee roll on suitcase... but as our paths will separate along the way i get the whole suitcase to me lonesome meaning of course it is packed to Maximilian with crap...well i saw crap but actually i mean my belongings clothes, shoes , straighteners,make-up etc etc...(well yeah actually i do mean crap) but at least it gives me options...

Yestermorning we packed LPs bag for NZ and it went well and by that i mean it went too well hes baffled by my upsetness that nothing went wrong... but it all just went too smoothly... everything fit first time, its not too heavy, there's still loads of room..(for all the pineapple lumps hes going to bring back for me) but to me this is a bad sign something of vital importance is missing from that bag and i don't mean to jinx it but its not going to be discovered until too late...oh dear

then LP came out with "it was always going to be easier then when we pack for Africa" now i don't know about him but I'm set... i know the exact layout of my bag I've already mentally packed it over and over (and once last week i did a cheeky half pack when i got the bag out for LP to take to NZ) I'm set but still i expect there to be a tantrum or two (or three) its just the way packing should be....

The money problem...

Recently I've been pondering on ways to raise funds before November remember I mentioned lists earlier? well one of them is a list of things we need and top of that list is a brand spanking new camera with a decent lens (yes we do need a camera that's why its on the need list rather then the want list) so back to the raising funds I have come up with the idea a brilliant idea a absolutely wunderbar idea which is... wishing to win the lotto! a fail proof plan (or so I thought) until my moo was kind enough to point out.... you have to be in it to win it....oh dear...