for future reference:
do not go to the following locations to find a natwest bank. you will be wasting your time.
new cross
new cross gate
surrey quays
canada water
canary wharf
no. not even canary wharf
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
highlight! highlight!!
i have added a guestbook to my blog. at the very, very bottom of this here page is a button you can press to sign my guestbook. i figure this might be a good idea because you can only leave comments here if you are a memeber of blogger. i think that's the case anyway.
utilize this damn button, i worked hard to put it there!! :)
utilize this damn button, i worked hard to put it there!! :)
Monday, December 27, 2004
holiday talk
greetings you lil' buggers,
arrived back in london from vienna this evening. i'm on my 3rd cuppa and am avoiding the unpacking of my suitcase like no one's business.
vienna was wonderful as were my hosts. i can't speak the german language for anything though. my mouth just doesn't want me to make those sounds. i can barely say 'danke'
christmas eve was spent with kari. we made stuffed peppers and had a relaxing evening listening to music and discussing why we were where we were and how much we appreciate and enjoy the paths we've taken. that's really how my entire holiday went. a lot of relaxing, great food, enjoying great company. later that night we went to evening mass at kari's church. it was beautiful. i didn't care that i didn't understand the language. i liked listening to it. even got to hear 'silent night' in german, which was a goal of mine for the trip. met kari's friends too. go-go. she knows someone with the nickname 'go-go'
i was transferred back to anne on christmas day (it was great, anne and kari were like my divorced parents. i went from one to the other. guess which was the wild mom and which was the sensible? good balance i tell ya) anne and i decorated the apartment and then we had a lovely (beyond lovely, jim's meal was fantastic) christmas dinner. afterwards we played a board game about art. they had all of these little pictures and you got points for naming the artist, title, year, and place it was kept. naomi and i won. i think this had something to do with the fact that a couple of days before i saw quite a bit of the art at a museum in vienna. the kunsthistorisches, see i told you the language was hard, a good chunk of the world's art is there. then we read christmas stories out loud (dave sedaris' 'dinah, the christmas whore' was a favorite) we finished the evening (really late evening/early morn) with A LOT of wine (the bottles in vienna are huge and we had a couple of bottles of champagne with gold flecks in it, my stomach felt sparkly) and discussion that was fuelled by the documentary of wal-mart. it was found on the only english speaking channel cnbc. we made lists of things to do before we die (you can see the progression of the list as we drank more wine, saying things like 'respect and understand other people's lists') and generally had a good time. i also discovered that others have a strong attraction for cnn journalist anderson cooper. anne's flatmate, dune, and i found a number of websites about the fella.
can i just say that i'm enjoying a bit of debbie gibson's 'only in my dreams' right now? that's damn good pop.
...only in my dreams, as real as it may see-e-em, it was only in my dreams, no, no-no-no...enter funky sax solo...whoa-whoa
arrived back in london from vienna this evening. i'm on my 3rd cuppa and am avoiding the unpacking of my suitcase like no one's business.
vienna was wonderful as were my hosts. i can't speak the german language for anything though. my mouth just doesn't want me to make those sounds. i can barely say 'danke'
christmas eve was spent with kari. we made stuffed peppers and had a relaxing evening listening to music and discussing why we were where we were and how much we appreciate and enjoy the paths we've taken. that's really how my entire holiday went. a lot of relaxing, great food, enjoying great company. later that night we went to evening mass at kari's church. it was beautiful. i didn't care that i didn't understand the language. i liked listening to it. even got to hear 'silent night' in german, which was a goal of mine for the trip. met kari's friends too. go-go. she knows someone with the nickname 'go-go'
i was transferred back to anne on christmas day (it was great, anne and kari were like my divorced parents. i went from one to the other. guess which was the wild mom and which was the sensible? good balance i tell ya) anne and i decorated the apartment and then we had a lovely (beyond lovely, jim's meal was fantastic) christmas dinner. afterwards we played a board game about art. they had all of these little pictures and you got points for naming the artist, title, year, and place it was kept. naomi and i won. i think this had something to do with the fact that a couple of days before i saw quite a bit of the art at a museum in vienna. the kunsthistorisches, see i told you the language was hard, a good chunk of the world's art is there. then we read christmas stories out loud (dave sedaris' 'dinah, the christmas whore' was a favorite) we finished the evening (really late evening/early morn) with A LOT of wine (the bottles in vienna are huge and we had a couple of bottles of champagne with gold flecks in it, my stomach felt sparkly) and discussion that was fuelled by the documentary of wal-mart. it was found on the only english speaking channel cnbc. we made lists of things to do before we die (you can see the progression of the list as we drank more wine, saying things like 'respect and understand other people's lists') and generally had a good time. i also discovered that others have a strong attraction for cnn journalist anderson cooper. anne's flatmate, dune, and i found a number of websites about the fella.
can i just say that i'm enjoying a bit of debbie gibson's 'only in my dreams' right now? that's damn good pop.
...only in my dreams, as real as it may see-e-em, it was only in my dreams, no, no-no-no...enter funky sax solo...whoa-whoa
Friday, December 17, 2004
9amguinness
9amguinness
Originally uploaded by pumpkin spice.
this is from thanksgiving morn. we did up the beer can turkey. we were afraid that plastic widget inside would melt and would just make a big ol' mess. so, we started drinking up the guinness and cutting up the can. was really surprised at the size of the widget. look at how long my scarf is! can't even see the bottom of it and it just keep getting longer and longer
linda 2
linda 2
Originally uploaded by pumpkin spice.
this is Linda. she's from sweden and is in my production group. groovy girl that linda
warbitch 2
warbitch 2
Originally uploaded by pumpkin spice.
the stuff bart says changes about once a week, this has got to be my favorite though. the billboard is in the center of the elephant and castle circle
LCC
LCC
Originally uploaded by pumpkin spice.
Can't remember if i put this one up before or not. just a reminder that i DO go to school here
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
what's everyone complaining about?
weather. i haven't checked the temperature here in a long time. after seeing how cold it was in mpls (7 degrees F, meaning -14 C) i thought i'd find out what it was like over here.....8 degrees C this means that it's like 46 F over here.
we're having a heatwave....a tropical heatwave.....the temperature's rising, it's not that surprisin' she certainly can
can-can
we're having a heatwave....a tropical heatwave.....the temperature's rising, it's not that surprisin' she certainly can
can-can
oh dear
greetings all you lovely, lovely people!
so i guess that last picture worked, meaning that i should put up more, but i'm not going to tonight.
christmas party was great! no drunken blog, i did the safe thing and slept on meg's air mattress. she needed my help anyway....i was the more sober of the two, if you can call it that. i very much wanted to drunk dial you all though, apparently i threw my mobile down on the table because i was so upset that i didn't have any of your numbers in my phone. thankfully my dear pal toby helped me put it back together.
barely anyone went to classes next day.
before the pub for dinner and drinks, there was a carol service at st.bride's church. it is a very pretty church on fleet st. great for all of us publishing people because it is there to commerate all of the great printers, publishers, writers, and journalists of england. there was a really groovy crypt too. the choir sang beautifully. occasionally they would have us sing some carols too, but the versions they did were very different than the original songs and i don't think we sounded too good. no big deal cause the choir was loud enough to drown us out. the last song they sang was john lennon's 'so this is christmas' it was really nice, the preacher type guy said it was very fitting because it was the anniversary of lennon's death and there is much sadness in the world due to war. yup, good choice. little tears in our eyes. much sap.
i work at a pub now. yup, i'm pouring the pints instead of the espresso shots. i miss the espresso machine. a lot. lame? probably.
sunday i headed over to the canary wharf. i can see its skyline from my room. it's the one that looks like mpls. so, i was all excited to go and see what was down there and well, it's minneapolis down there. seriously, there was a huge shopping mall and shiny (how the heck does one spell that word?) buildings. made me a little sad, mississippi replaced by the thames. but don't worry, i wasn't sad all day. walked along some canals and saw a lot of different kinds of birds. i tried really hard to remember the names, but i'm sorry to report that i can't repeat a single species. i could pick them out in a---wait, there were canadian geese!!! i asked if there were loons here, but my companion had no idea what i was talking about--thought i was asking about crazy people.
did i tell you all that i watched the t-wolves play the other night at the pub? they won. heck yeah, i'm happy they show the nba games there, it's nice.
i leave for vienna soon, that'll be fun. christmas with the kids (anne and kari)
rock the groove
so i guess that last picture worked, meaning that i should put up more, but i'm not going to tonight.
christmas party was great! no drunken blog, i did the safe thing and slept on meg's air mattress. she needed my help anyway....i was the more sober of the two, if you can call it that. i very much wanted to drunk dial you all though, apparently i threw my mobile down on the table because i was so upset that i didn't have any of your numbers in my phone. thankfully my dear pal toby helped me put it back together.
barely anyone went to classes next day.
before the pub for dinner and drinks, there was a carol service at st.bride's church. it is a very pretty church on fleet st. great for all of us publishing people because it is there to commerate all of the great printers, publishers, writers, and journalists of england. there was a really groovy crypt too. the choir sang beautifully. occasionally they would have us sing some carols too, but the versions they did were very different than the original songs and i don't think we sounded too good. no big deal cause the choir was loud enough to drown us out. the last song they sang was john lennon's 'so this is christmas' it was really nice, the preacher type guy said it was very fitting because it was the anniversary of lennon's death and there is much sadness in the world due to war. yup, good choice. little tears in our eyes. much sap.
i work at a pub now. yup, i'm pouring the pints instead of the espresso shots. i miss the espresso machine. a lot. lame? probably.
sunday i headed over to the canary wharf. i can see its skyline from my room. it's the one that looks like mpls. so, i was all excited to go and see what was down there and well, it's minneapolis down there. seriously, there was a huge shopping mall and shiny (how the heck does one spell that word?) buildings. made me a little sad, mississippi replaced by the thames. but don't worry, i wasn't sad all day. walked along some canals and saw a lot of different kinds of birds. i tried really hard to remember the names, but i'm sorry to report that i can't repeat a single species. i could pick them out in a---wait, there were canadian geese!!! i asked if there were loons here, but my companion had no idea what i was talking about--thought i was asking about crazy people.
did i tell you all that i watched the t-wolves play the other night at the pub? they won. heck yeah, i'm happy they show the nba games there, it's nice.
i leave for vienna soon, that'll be fun. christmas with the kids (anne and kari)
rock the groove
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
towerbridge
towerbridge
Originally uploaded by pumpkin spice.
okay, i do have more pictures to come, but i wanted to see if i was putting this up correctly. i scanned it tonight and well, i don't think i did it correctly. oh well. oh, and this is a picture of towerbridge. wish me luck, i have my presentation tmrw. yeaaa...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
busy abby has been
i started a pub job on saturday night. stanhope arms. i pick up glasses and dirty ashtrays and talk with drunk people. sunday night a gay man asked if i could mother his child.
my reply?
um, no.
one presentation down and one to go. wednesday i turn in my report and have my presentation with pete ryan at 9.20am. after that i am going to enjoy the christmas festivities taking place at the king and keys that night on fleet street. i will be taking obscene advantage of the free dinner and drinks. expecting a bridget jones like karoke session. maybe you will be treated to a drunk blog that night. lucky you.
my reply?
um, no.
one presentation down and one to go. wednesday i turn in my report and have my presentation with pete ryan at 9.20am. after that i am going to enjoy the christmas festivities taking place at the king and keys that night on fleet street. i will be taking obscene advantage of the free dinner and drinks. expecting a bridget jones like karoke session. maybe you will be treated to a drunk blog that night. lucky you.
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