Month: August 2006

If you can remember the Cybermen episode(I still have only seen the first half), the people all had huge ear pieces in both ears. Well out and about in London they are all mimicking the TV-or is it the other way around?
It is obviously the new thing to have your ( I assume) Bluetooth ear device, so that yopu do not have to actually lift the mobile phone all the way from your pocket to your ear-would not wish to suffer a strain.
If it’s not a phone in your ear then everyone else is plugged into their iPod or eqivilent. The world going around in oblivion.
And to think in the not so distant past, people would refuse to wear hearing aids becuase they were too conspicuous.

Time to write again. My foot has been off the pedal.
I have been backm in UK for a while, and today I did the big journey form commuter Surrey/Berkshire to Battersea in the car, via M3, and south circular via Barnes and Wandsworth. Anyway welcome back to my old world! Two hours later I arrrived, feeling like I had already done a days work. Today, being the school holidays should not have been too bad-I did the same journey in an hour last week. However, little did I know about the train strike on South West Trains.
I can quickly remember why I decided to move to the West Midlands.

Now four days since my arrival in UK. Sleeping better and cycle coming around.
UK seems familiar and unfamiliar at the samer time. All the places are instantly recognisable, but do not seem so real or “usual”. Obviously hard to put into words. Maybe as I have been away for last 2 years and effectively 3 years, it is not normal anymore.
London is a busy, bustling and dirty place. I soud like a bumpkin, but it does not appeal. This is not new I suppose but dates 7 years.
Anyway trying to enjoy self while awaiting movement of the bureaucracies to let me work.

So much happened since I laast wrote a note. Trip to South Island was success, and it seemed we were “so lucky with the weather”.
We had fun with walks and managed tio squeeze in two days of skiing. The fisrt at Hamner, which is a non comcercial venue so with lesser size and facilities. Having to use a rope pull and nutcracker cintraption to get up the hill has abit too much for all concerned. However, noraml service was resumed at Mount Hutt, with large fields, chair lifts, lessons for the children and one for Dad, and everyone made progress and “got back on the the bike”. The weather was glorious, how one imagines it should always be.
Since then I have travelled to the other side of the world. I am up at 4am as I cannot sleep, despite lack of hours under the belt.
Here’s to a return to sleep patterns.

Two more days of work, then it is holiday time. Some in the world may be currently enjoying their summer fun and beach time, but we arte offf to the South Island for a family relax, fresh air, leg exercise and a bit of skiing.
Tomorrow is another chance to catch the beauty of the MArlborough Sounds on the ferry, then off to Hanmer Springs, and probably next up Mount Hutt skiing.
Roll on the holiday as the countdown to trip up north continues.