Kook Central: Cows and Swans

Ok another post from me!

At this stage Darren is doing so much better than me at writing blogs and uploading about 10,000 photos. The reason for this is he is hogging the computer. Soon our computer should arrive, though I’m definitely not holding my breathe as so far they’ve sent me one set of forms to fill out which I duely did and sent them back in the mail, then today they inform me they’ve received my forms (yay!) but there’s another bunch that will also need to be filled out. Joy. Anyway when that all gets sorted out we will eventually have a computer each! The way it should be.

Anyway if you are on Darren’s bebo friends list then definitely check out his page for more interesting tales and pictures. Unfortunately his page is private so you’ll have to convince him to add you as a friend if you’re not already on his list.

Ok I’ve wasted quite a bit of my blogging time talking about that rubbish. Today is my second day at work. It’s been good. Everyone is so nice and friendly and the work should be interesting. Challenging, but good. Plus they have a cool free drinks machine here (doesn’t quite beat the free coke and choccy biccies at Jade Christchurch but it’s still good) that has yummy hot chocolates. I haven’t tried anything else because I still don’t drink tea or coffee. I don’t think I ever will. Tea is alright. But coffee just doesn’t taste nice.

In rabbit hole news the rabbit hole is definitely just that, a rabbit hole. It’s not a fox hole as originally suspected (well I was hoping!) as there were rabbit dropping around it this morning. It’s funny how it gets smaller and bigger again.

Darren is looking at apartments for us to rent today. I hope he finds something good and not too dear. I also hope it doesn’t matter that we haven’t quite got our bank account sorted out yet. It would be so great to move in this weekend, or at least to know we were moving the weekend after. As I really want to head down to London one weekend very soon. We saw none of it as we passed through last time and there’s so much to see, let alone people to see, like Andrew, Sarah and Danielle. But I won’t book tickets until we know what’s happening with the house.

As soon as we get the house we can also start thinking about when to go over to Amsterdam and then go and visit Susannah in Lieden. So much exciting stuff coming up, all waiting for us to get a house! I’m actually excited about buying some mugs. Well just one. I mug for me to use at work. I’ve never ever bought a mug before, everyone has always just given me mugs. I’ve been given so many mugs, lovely ones, but it really does take away the excitement of getting to choose your own mug.

I went for a walk outside today at lunchtime because the weather was beautiful. I walked down to the lake, and looked out across at the building Darren was looking today at renting an apartment in. Here’s a photo of the lake and building I took with my phone camera:

And here's another picture of the lake with some swans in it, they are the tiny distant white dots.

The lake is a big man made lake, and the area of housing and businesses and shops around it is called lakeside. This is where the EWS office is, so if we rent in Lakeside then than would be fantastic as it would mean I could walk to work and we could get by with one car. The downside is it’s a pretty nice part of town to live in and therefore more expensive than other places. It’s not too bad compared to NZ rental prices but there’s the temptation to live somewhere cheaper and pocket more pounds. I think we’ll end up saving more by only running one car though, so that’s how I’ll justify it to myself.

To finish this post so I can go start looking at how other people's lives have been going on bebo etc here is a picture of the cows (bulls?) that are in the paddock next to the apartment. I think I'm right Kirsty, calling this one a paddock?