So it's May and Winter has truly set in, I dusted off the Duffle coat yesterday, we closed the windows and it's been raining so much Football was cancelled because in parts of the fancy artificial pitch we were shin deep in water.
Apart from the rain it's been a good week, mixed things up at work with an 'engagement' 2 day thing, where all the teams came together and chatted, did some cool things including have a tour of Sky City's restaurants and it's inner workings, plus a nice Chinese and some drinks.
Chilled out the rest of the week when not at work, went to my friend Ari's graduation ceremony, helped ourselves to champers and canapes... Friday night cooked Hannah a Roast and fell asleep during 'the Illusionist'.
The weekend was pretty quiet, had a 5pm kickoff so not much during the day, watched 'Looking for Eric' with our flattie Bex, the Eric masks cracked me up, then went to the game though was called off so had a beer with some of the lads and back to chill out with Hannah.
Sunday headed off to Oaklands to say goodbye to Gorgeous Alex, who's heading back to France, then hung out at Adam's, Sarah's, Gary's, Ari's and Simon's gaff, did a top notch lasagna and watched Game of Thrones as it was pissing it down, then played Futsal, lost 5-3 to a not great team before coming home to a butternut squash risotto that Hannah rustled up.
I missed playing 11-aside footy last week, and not playing this week as it's Hannah's birthday, but this makes up for it, the most Sunday League Goal Ever, complete with the Goalie kicking the post...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
The days of April
Hello,
It's Monday night and have a good week since we last spoke. I'm pretty knackered atm, just got back from football training, gonna watch the Crowd goes Wild in a min before crashing out.
We had a great week, both Monday and Tuesday night was spent with Hannah, Hannah did home-made fish and chips which were brilliant, and Tuesday I boot camped, she ABT'd and then we Yoga'd. Had another good session, really enjoying it. Wednesday was a complete chill out getting ready for thursday...
Which we had off for ANZAC day. Hannah worked it so Adam picked me up and along with his mrs Sarah and Simon went off for a walk around Hunua ranges, saw the waterfall and went for a wander up to a reservoir, had a great time. On the way back stopped off for Manwich material and ate too much, before getting shipped off home and walking into town in the drizzle to meet Toto and go see Apocalypse Z. We had a drink before then went to the show, it was an immersive Zombie play, and thought it was shit, no real story, some cool camera shots, but it was people shouting at each other and the crowd were knobbers. It was in this made up space, and reminded of a theme park queue for Hostel at Thorpe park, only done worse.
Friday was back at work for a pretty laid back one, got a metre pizza with Toto, yep, it's a normal pizza by the metre, in it's metre box, magic. Then met up with Hannah for a couple of drinks down Mezze bar and met Shelley, Jenna and Graham for dinner at Tony's steakhouse, had a good evening. Walked home, watched some more Wire.
The weekend was a good one, lazed saturday morning away before playing football. We played top of the league though we did them 3-2, should have won by more. Sat night I cooked Hannah dinner, a decent pork belly thing, then we went to see Olympus has Fallen, which was dreadful. Maybe worse then The Sweeney, which in turn was worse then Taken 2...
Sunday was spent chilling round my friends, cooked them some dinner, watched some Game Of Thrones and played Futsal in the evening, winning 7-3, I played in goal as our keeper was away and didn't do half bad. Spent the rest of the evening watching the last episode of Season1 of the Wire (!).
Here's an example of why I love the Crowd Goes Wild
It's Monday night and have a good week since we last spoke. I'm pretty knackered atm, just got back from football training, gonna watch the Crowd goes Wild in a min before crashing out.
We had a great week, both Monday and Tuesday night was spent with Hannah, Hannah did home-made fish and chips which were brilliant, and Tuesday I boot camped, she ABT'd and then we Yoga'd. Had another good session, really enjoying it. Wednesday was a complete chill out getting ready for thursday...
Which we had off for ANZAC day. Hannah worked it so Adam picked me up and along with his mrs Sarah and Simon went off for a walk around Hunua ranges, saw the waterfall and went for a wander up to a reservoir, had a great time. On the way back stopped off for Manwich material and ate too much, before getting shipped off home and walking into town in the drizzle to meet Toto and go see Apocalypse Z. We had a drink before then went to the show, it was an immersive Zombie play, and thought it was shit, no real story, some cool camera shots, but it was people shouting at each other and the crowd were knobbers. It was in this made up space, and reminded of a theme park queue for Hostel at Thorpe park, only done worse.
Friday was back at work for a pretty laid back one, got a metre pizza with Toto, yep, it's a normal pizza by the metre, in it's metre box, magic. Then met up with Hannah for a couple of drinks down Mezze bar and met Shelley, Jenna and Graham for dinner at Tony's steakhouse, had a good evening. Walked home, watched some more Wire.
The weekend was a good one, lazed saturday morning away before playing football. We played top of the league though we did them 3-2, should have won by more. Sat night I cooked Hannah dinner, a decent pork belly thing, then we went to see Olympus has Fallen, which was dreadful. Maybe worse then The Sweeney, which in turn was worse then Taken 2...
Sunday was spent chilling round my friends, cooked them some dinner, watched some Game Of Thrones and played Futsal in the evening, winning 7-3, I played in goal as our keeper was away and didn't do half bad. Spent the rest of the evening watching the last episode of Season1 of the Wire (!).
Here's an example of why I love the Crowd Goes Wild
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
April try to write this on a Monday like I said I would...
But I was having fun with Hannah, so Wednesday will have to do ya.
So it's Wednesday and I'm doing great.
Had a really good start to the week last Monday, Hannah's family over here had us over their new place, had a chat and they cooked a decent curry before watching Argo together, loved it. Tuesday night was our 3rd week of Yoga, I skipped Bootcamp as still hobbling from my knock though I got the most Zen I've been. I've become a lot more aware of what my body does and the strains put on it, trying to sit up straighter and all that. The rest of the week flew by, had a good week at work and chilled out with Hannah. Have been eating very well, would say I'm the healthiest I've been at the moment and feel great, am really happy.
The Week-end was football-less, had a bye, so knowing how to show Hannah a good time took her to Countdown, the supermarket, not the TV Show and made a decent breakfast, got coffee from Zepher (this dude who runs a espresso bar down the road) and chilled out. In the evening went round mates and had a few drinks while watching How to Train your Dragon, (loved it) and walked home in the early hours and skype'd the mother.
Sunday was spent as Sundays should be, doing very little and enjoying it immensely. Went round friends and chilled out, then went home and cooked Hannah a Roast Dinner and putting on a film.
Things are grand at the moment, I'm really happy. It's been quite a settled, routine-y life the last couple of months, though have really enjoyed it and mixed things up nicely. We're slowly getting more connected and having the chance to get to know people better. We have quite a few cool things lined up for the coming weeks, and while rain has set in, Auckland is no less alive. I've quite enjoyed the change in scenery, different constructions of cloud, putting on some layers, or marveling how quickly this place changes weather (the other day it was raining though I couldn't see a cloud in the sky, it was blue as, and there was a rainbow in front of me).
To sign off on something topical - I'm not sure if you've seen or heard of this speech though it's massive here, not solely for the (brilliant) content, though because Ellen DeGeneres wants this dude on her show after making this speech, and Kiwi's love their Ellen...
So it's Wednesday and I'm doing great.
Had a really good start to the week last Monday, Hannah's family over here had us over their new place, had a chat and they cooked a decent curry before watching Argo together, loved it. Tuesday night was our 3rd week of Yoga, I skipped Bootcamp as still hobbling from my knock though I got the most Zen I've been. I've become a lot more aware of what my body does and the strains put on it, trying to sit up straighter and all that. The rest of the week flew by, had a good week at work and chilled out with Hannah. Have been eating very well, would say I'm the healthiest I've been at the moment and feel great, am really happy.
The Week-end was football-less, had a bye, so knowing how to show Hannah a good time took her to Countdown, the supermarket, not the TV Show and made a decent breakfast, got coffee from Zepher (this dude who runs a espresso bar down the road) and chilled out. In the evening went round mates and had a few drinks while watching How to Train your Dragon, (loved it) and walked home in the early hours and skype'd the mother.
Sunday was spent as Sundays should be, doing very little and enjoying it immensely. Went round friends and chilled out, then went home and cooked Hannah a Roast Dinner and putting on a film.
Things are grand at the moment, I'm really happy. It's been quite a settled, routine-y life the last couple of months, though have really enjoyed it and mixed things up nicely. We're slowly getting more connected and having the chance to get to know people better. We have quite a few cool things lined up for the coming weeks, and while rain has set in, Auckland is no less alive. I've quite enjoyed the change in scenery, different constructions of cloud, putting on some layers, or marveling how quickly this place changes weather (the other day it was raining though I couldn't see a cloud in the sky, it was blue as, and there was a rainbow in front of me).
To sign off on something topical - I'm not sure if you've seen or heard of this speech though it's massive here, not solely for the (brilliant) content, though because Ellen DeGeneres wants this dude on her show after making this speech, and Kiwi's love their Ellen...
Monday, 15 April 2013
April showers - it rained today, and yesterday, like being home
Hey y'all
Things are going good here, had a great weekend. Started Friday night with a couple of beers with some people from work, then had my mate Shaun round ours for a cracking dinner. Up early on Saturday for my second part of my medical, I passed with almost everything bang in the middle of the acceptable ranges. I dragged Hannah with me for it and had a stunning brunch at this artesan bakery/cafe, they made their own bread and cured Salmon and it was divine. We squeezed in an episode of the Wire and I went off for Football. We won 2-0, as well as missing a penalty, though I picked up a knock from some knobber. That evening got picked up by Simon and met up with Matt and Eden, went round to some of our Irish friends and walked round to Eden park, to watch the Blues beat the Hurricanes in teh super rugby.
Sunday was a complete chill out, lazed with Hannah and made breakfast, went round Adam's and peoples, hung out, played Playstation, cooked them all dinner and watched a movie before heading home. I was still hobbling a bit so gave football a miss, so watched some more of the Wire with Hannah.
The week was the usual but a good one, boot camp, chilling with Hannah, watched Trance (loved it then hated it) and played in goal for our Futsal Side on a thursday. Also bought some tickets to walk around the SkyTower, 192m of the ground with no handrails, you're harnessed in, going to take Hannah on a nice day!
Much love
Things are going good here, had a great weekend. Started Friday night with a couple of beers with some people from work, then had my mate Shaun round ours for a cracking dinner. Up early on Saturday for my second part of my medical, I passed with almost everything bang in the middle of the acceptable ranges. I dragged Hannah with me for it and had a stunning brunch at this artesan bakery/cafe, they made their own bread and cured Salmon and it was divine. We squeezed in an episode of the Wire and I went off for Football. We won 2-0, as well as missing a penalty, though I picked up a knock from some knobber. That evening got picked up by Simon and met up with Matt and Eden, went round to some of our Irish friends and walked round to Eden park, to watch the Blues beat the Hurricanes in teh super rugby.
Sunday was a complete chill out, lazed with Hannah and made breakfast, went round Adam's and peoples, hung out, played Playstation, cooked them all dinner and watched a movie before heading home. I was still hobbling a bit so gave football a miss, so watched some more of the Wire with Hannah.
The week was the usual but a good one, boot camp, chilling with Hannah, watched Trance (loved it then hated it) and played in goal for our Futsal Side on a thursday. Also bought some tickets to walk around the SkyTower, 192m of the ground with no handrails, you're harnessed in, going to take Hannah on a nice day!
Much love
Monday, 8 April 2013
April!
Another Monday and another month.
I've just come home from seeing Trance, still don't know what I thought of it.
Weekend was really good, involving breakfasts and coffees with Hannah, football started in the afternoon which was great, we won 2-1 and it was a good bunch of lads and we knocked the ball about nicely. Sat night was spent chilling out and stocking up in Countdown. I watched the Saints play lovely against Reading, and crashed out. Sunday was much the same, chilled out at Ari's and Gary's, played futsal (lost 10-2 and might have got sent off....) but was a good laugh.
The week started off well, boot camping and then straight off to Yoga with Hannah, to start a beginners course. I'm as good at yoga as I am at Swimming, something which Hannah loved. In a relaxed crouch on your knees the instructor came round and told me to sit up as "you don't look comfortable, love".
On the Wednesday me and Hannah went to the Basement Theatre, to see a play called Dolly Mixture which my mate Toto was working on, one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, in places very funny, in places flat out creepy verging on the scary. A tale of a weird man being taken in by a eccentric old lady with intent to resurrect her disturbed dead daughter... I still don't know what I thought of it, though we had ice cream after and had a great evening!
Chilled out the rest of the week, watched the first episode of The Wire, loved it, boot camped, getting fitter and cooked some decent food.
love you all x
I've just come home from seeing Trance, still don't know what I thought of it.
Weekend was really good, involving breakfasts and coffees with Hannah, football started in the afternoon which was great, we won 2-1 and it was a good bunch of lads and we knocked the ball about nicely. Sat night was spent chilling out and stocking up in Countdown. I watched the Saints play lovely against Reading, and crashed out. Sunday was much the same, chilled out at Ari's and Gary's, played futsal (lost 10-2 and might have got sent off....) but was a good laugh.
The week started off well, boot camping and then straight off to Yoga with Hannah, to start a beginners course. I'm as good at yoga as I am at Swimming, something which Hannah loved. In a relaxed crouch on your knees the instructor came round and told me to sit up as "you don't look comfortable, love".
On the Wednesday me and Hannah went to the Basement Theatre, to see a play called Dolly Mixture which my mate Toto was working on, one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, in places very funny, in places flat out creepy verging on the scary. A tale of a weird man being taken in by a eccentric old lady with intent to resurrect her disturbed dead daughter... I still don't know what I thought of it, though we had ice cream after and had a great evening!
Chilled out the rest of the week, watched the first episode of The Wire, loved it, boot camped, getting fitter and cooked some decent food.
love you all x
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The long March goodbye...
Hello April!
This week's entry is a bit late as we had a 4 day weekend over here, and was busy.
Last week was really good, hanging out with Hannah, going to Boot Camp, had friends over for dinner which was grand.
Then Thursday finished work early, our Welsh friend Simon took us to the Airport and me and Hannah flew to Wellington. It was Robyn's birthday, a Canadian I met in Burma (who's come to NZ to live), so we crashed at hers, had a great weekend consisting of eating, drinking, meeting up with Amy and James and also meeting Robyn's friends, and drinking.
Saturday Robyn took me to a boxing class, (I can't throw a left hook...), me and Hannah booked flight tickets home for Chrimbo! and we had a good night out. It's been slightly weird as they have rules about the religious holidays, with lots of things closing, on Sunday you could only drink alcohol with food out, and on Saturday they practically kicked us out at midnight, though we planned for it and got on it early.
Sunday was a chill out day, a big brekkie and a wander round the town. I like Wellywood, though am glad we live in Auckland.
Be back next week, any suggestions for titles with April in?
Much love x
This week's entry is a bit late as we had a 4 day weekend over here, and was busy.
Last week was really good, hanging out with Hannah, going to Boot Camp, had friends over for dinner which was grand.
Then Thursday finished work early, our Welsh friend Simon took us to the Airport and me and Hannah flew to Wellington. It was Robyn's birthday, a Canadian I met in Burma (who's come to NZ to live), so we crashed at hers, had a great weekend consisting of eating, drinking, meeting up with Amy and James and also meeting Robyn's friends, and drinking.
Saturday Robyn took me to a boxing class, (I can't throw a left hook...), me and Hannah booked flight tickets home for Chrimbo! and we had a good night out. It's been slightly weird as they have rules about the religious holidays, with lots of things closing, on Sunday you could only drink alcohol with food out, and on Saturday they practically kicked us out at midnight, though we planned for it and got on it early.
Sunday was a chill out day, a big brekkie and a wander round the town. I like Wellywood, though am glad we live in Auckland.
Be back next week, any suggestions for titles with April in?
Much love x
Monday, 25 March 2013
Oh, when the Saints go March-ing in.
I'm well chuffed with that Post Title...
We've had a really good week and a great weekend. During the week I worked, boot-camped, chilled out with Hannah, watched some movies and went to the Theatre!
My mate Toto worked some wizardry and sorted out tickets to see One Man, Two Guv'nors, showing as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. We met up before hand and had some food, a little Japanese place which was top notch, plus a Moroccan Mint tea in this really cool cafe/bar place, then watched the Play. It was a farce, lifting the plot of The Servant of Two Masters (an Italian play which me mum dragged me and my brother to go see it in some wanky manor, by an AmDram group and it was fucking awful, we left as soon as it started raining and bitched the thing all the way home, though my mum insisted that she saw a version when she was younger and was in stitches.) Well this was set in Brighton in the 60s and it was fucking amazing. I loved it, was really funny, well acted, I had an Ice Cream and a lift home, don't know what more you could ask for in a evening.
Saturday I got my Medical done, so far so good, got to go back to see a Doctor in two weeks, then we had a decent Fry up and bumped into my friend Jenna, who I used to work with, then hung out and played Fifa. Me, Adam and Gary started getting on it, went into town and had a cracking night out.
Sunday felt like a mess, we chilled out in the morning then went to watch the Test Cricket at Eden Park. I got some free tickets from work in the Corporate box and me and Hannah went along. The corp seats weren't the greatest, teh Barmy Army were 30 ft underneath 5ft of concrete so couldn't hear anyone, it was proper sterile, so we sneaked through a couple of doors into general admission and played musical chairs, sitting between the Barmy Army in the sun and then places a bit more quiet in the shade. It wasn't the most interesting though was good to be outside, was a lovely day and spent some decent time with Hannah.
Futsal that evening, didn't play my best, and my boots are turning into a football version of Darth Vader, more Duct tape/super glue/electrical tape then actual boot. We lost 6-5 to a shit team, and I didn't even score. That evening Hannah cooked steak and Kumura mash with Garlic Mushrooms and had a quiet one.
We're still in Drought, and Autumn is setting in. It's getting a bit nippy in the mornings, have to wear a jumper on the walk into work now, and night is setting in earlier, getting dark about 8.
I'm looking forward to the coming week, catching up with some friends for dinner, then heading to Wellington on Thurs evening with Hannah for the Easter Weekend, seeing some friends and having a night out and maybe even an ice cream...
We've had a really good week and a great weekend. During the week I worked, boot-camped, chilled out with Hannah, watched some movies and went to the Theatre!
My mate Toto worked some wizardry and sorted out tickets to see One Man, Two Guv'nors, showing as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. We met up before hand and had some food, a little Japanese place which was top notch, plus a Moroccan Mint tea in this really cool cafe/bar place, then watched the Play. It was a farce, lifting the plot of The Servant of Two Masters (an Italian play which me mum dragged me and my brother to go see it in some wanky manor, by an AmDram group and it was fucking awful, we left as soon as it started raining and bitched the thing all the way home, though my mum insisted that she saw a version when she was younger and was in stitches.) Well this was set in Brighton in the 60s and it was fucking amazing. I loved it, was really funny, well acted, I had an Ice Cream and a lift home, don't know what more you could ask for in a evening.
Saturday I got my Medical done, so far so good, got to go back to see a Doctor in two weeks, then we had a decent Fry up and bumped into my friend Jenna, who I used to work with, then hung out and played Fifa. Me, Adam and Gary started getting on it, went into town and had a cracking night out.
Sunday felt like a mess, we chilled out in the morning then went to watch the Test Cricket at Eden Park. I got some free tickets from work in the Corporate box and me and Hannah went along. The corp seats weren't the greatest, teh Barmy Army were 30 ft underneath 5ft of concrete so couldn't hear anyone, it was proper sterile, so we sneaked through a couple of doors into general admission and played musical chairs, sitting between the Barmy Army in the sun and then places a bit more quiet in the shade. It wasn't the most interesting though was good to be outside, was a lovely day and spent some decent time with Hannah.
Futsal that evening, didn't play my best, and my boots are turning into a football version of Darth Vader, more Duct tape/super glue/electrical tape then actual boot. We lost 6-5 to a shit team, and I didn't even score. That evening Hannah cooked steak and Kumura mash with Garlic Mushrooms and had a quiet one.
We're still in Drought, and Autumn is setting in. It's getting a bit nippy in the mornings, have to wear a jumper on the walk into work now, and night is setting in earlier, getting dark about 8.
I'm looking forward to the coming week, catching up with some friends for dinner, then heading to Wellington on Thurs evening with Hannah for the Easter Weekend, seeing some friends and having a night out and maybe even an ice cream...
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