Well! Didn’t I say ages ago that we would get our UK pics up? Still waiting! It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen!
I am still at the Ayurveda Retreat, now working two days a week- Tuesdays & Fridays. Hopefully when business picks up I will have more work, although I don’t know how that will happen as the marketing hasn’t really kicked off yet. I’m really enjoying the work though, great people & a great product which I am really interested in.
Bodra came back to me in one piece from Las Vegas & since then he has been to Dublin for a weeks training. He didn’t meet many Irish people, just a taxi driver I think. Apparently there are more Polish people in Ireland than Irish. Maybe eventually Europe will just be called Europe & all Europeans will be free to live where they wish- is that what the European Union is all about? I wonder if that will extend to NZ where we sometimes have to tick the European box because there is no box for New Zealander…
Paul is dossing with us at the moment & has been with us since the start of September, just after Bodra’s birthday.
Ez & Kim came to Reading for that weekend- we got to watch South Africa vs All Blacks at the Walkabout Pub. One of the therapists I work with-Cianne-originates from South Africa. Her brother Zaine joined us for the game & at the start I had said to him, “I don’t mind if South Africa win, as long as it is just by a couple points.” & they won by one point. Good one Jasmin! We had an interesting dinner at Il Gusto (I had a plate full of tiny black mussels- they dont throw the small ones back here!) & a lovely wine-stumble home. The next day we went for a wander around Reading & had a lovely picnic in a park.
Last weekend we went into London (our first time since moving out to Reading). We met up with Tony & Liz who took us to this really sweet pub called Ye Olde King’s Head in Chigwell. Built in 1547, it was used as a model for the Maypole in the novel Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens and was the coaching inn on the London turnpike owned by the tyrannical John Willet, which was trashed and looted during George Gordon’s ‘No Popery’ riots of 1780. Winston Churchill often visited the house. Tony & Liz also took us to Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge, on the edge of Epping Forest near Chingford. Known as a standing, this 16th century building was used by courtiers in the Elizabethan age to enable them to view hunting in the forest below. We decided not to pay for an internal view os instead we peered in through the windows. It was like a still-life model of how it would have been used back in the day.
In the afternoon we moseyed over to Kim & Ez’s for their ‘Pirate Ninja Robot’ party- their house-warming at last! Kim’s Festival days are over now so she was finally available for the party. Everyone was dressed in their Pirate Ninja Robot finery & we all enjoyed the piratey-Rum punch & some funny old tunes from our Avondale years! It was awesome seeing the familiar faces of Ross Burns aka TickTock, Pirate-Cameron & Robot-Nik (with the most impressive Robot-phallus), Reuben O’Halloran, Neil Faragher, Rebecca Prideaux (I think by the time she got there my mind was in a rum-blurr) & even David O’Leary made an appearance! I forgot how much fun can be had in the atmosphere of dress-ups… when is the next party guys?
Paul & Rachael have been the first out of us Westies to get to Scotland- they went there the first weekend they were in the UK. Paul raved about the historical sites in Edinburgh & the friendliness of the Scots. Chantal, Bodra & I will be meeting Wendy in Edinburgh in October, where we (Bodra) will be driving to the Isle of Skye to enjoy some open space! No doubt we will have some nice pics to share from there. & maybe they will even find there way onto our blog! MAYBE!!!
Oh- something awesome to report. The dermatitus on my hands has pretty much gone. Is it the HerbaLife products I’m taking everyday? Or the exposure to medicated oils through the Ayurveda Retreat? I bought some special soap too the other week, after being recommended Neem from Saraswati (the enchanting healer at our clinic who has the most majickal hands… & spirit!). I’ve also been using a moisturising cream called Aveeno which has colloidal oatmeal in it. So, whatever it is, YAY!
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