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Angus’ party was a hoot on Saturday night.  The evening started with dinner at the Gourmet Burger Kitchen. GBK was started by a kiwi bloke about a year back and, although not as good as the burgers from Gourmet Burgers at The Basin Reserve in Wellington, the burgers are pretty good.  For a taste sensation (and no friends) try their garlic mayo

Off to the party at about 22:00 and we were greeted by loads of extremely toned male bodies in sarongs (beach theme) I wasn’t the oldest there (that’s right, David was at the party;)) and there were a couple of people FOB (fresh off the boat) from NZ.  It’s always interesting how people react to being in the UK.  For most the fact of not working, having a bit of money and having relatively easy access to drugs makes the first couple of months pass in somewhat of a blur :zoink

David and I had to leave just after midnight so we could get the last tube home and in doing so gave up our seats in Fi’s car so that our wives could get a ride home instead of catching public transport at night……… such nice boys :  (we had a call from Angus at about 7pm on Sunday evening and he was still going strong!)

Bed at 01:30 awake at 07:00 (I have no idea why) and Sunday was basically spent chilling out and preparing for the week ahead.

PS: Before the rugby on Saturday Vic and I had been to the Kiwi Fruits Shop and bought Burger Rings, Tangy fruits, Jet Planes and L&P – YUM!  Most readers will have no idea what these are – they’re sweets and other party foods from NZ.  Just what you need when watching the AB’s Quite expensive though – 2 large packets of Burger rings, 1 pkt Jet Planes, 1 pkt Tangy Fruits and 2 cans of L&P cost 9.70GBP/15USD/32NZD

So now the Chinese goverment is deciding who can and can’t advertise at New Zealand airports !

Busy weekend hence no entries until now – here it is in chronological order.

? The All Blacks beat Australia 12-6 in the opening match of the tri-nations :vbg:  Richie and Fi came around to watch the game which was a dour, error ridden, hard fought affair played in freezing rain.  v.nervous toward the end but neither team really looked like scoring a try and running away with the match.

? Then it was off out to the Bluewater shopping mall for a few hours in an attempt to find Vic some maternity trousers.  Even though she’s not really starting to show she is finding that more and more pairs of trouser aren’t comfortable any more.  Hours later we get back to the car with 3 maternity tops (of course!) Maybe next weekend…………..

? Watched the last couple of hours of the England vs India triangular series final What a game!! England scored a stunning 325 in the first innings and had India struggling on 146-5.  The Indian middle order came through though and India won with 3 balls and 2 wickets to spare.  Great stuff!

? Saturday night was relaxed with Japanese noodles for dinner and a bit of grocery shopping (such an exciting married couple!)

? Most of Sunday was spent with my Uncle Andrew’s family visiting them before they move a lot further away next week.  As with most of my family they are totally chilled and visiting them is always relaxing.  After a nice lunch sitting in the garden we spent some time watching the movie Spy Kids with Megan

? Then after a 2 hour drive back it was round to Richie and Fi’s for a BBQ to finish the weekend off.  We were going to see a movie but the weather was far too nice (for a change :() hence the food and wine instead.

So that’s it – another Cramer weekend over and back into work.  Stupid me has booked a day off on Thursday and then went and setup up a customer meeting! D’oh

Hope y’all had as nice a weekend as we did