Well as per usual I have been massively slack with my posting and to make up for it I have included a few pics of me over the past couple of weeks so hopefully you will all enjoy. Well, SO much has happened in the last little while and I have been a very busy little social vegemite to say the least. First I think I’ll tell you about my Australia Day which was the biggest most celebrated Aus Day I have ever been involved in.
I have finally settled into a 9 month contract at work and in this particular building there are more Australians than English!! So it was only natural that when the Friday before the 26th came around we celebrated in true Australian style and had an afternoon tea with all those lovely little snack food treasures I miss from home. Sheridan and I stayed up to all hours of the night before making little green and gold iced biscuits with pictures all over them. I, in typical Felicity fashion consumed more icing than I put on the biscuits and was literally buzzing around the kitchen like a 4 year old on a green cordial sugar high for most of the night – the only problem with that is like a 4 year old on a sugar high I crashed in a big way and had THE WORST sugar hangover I have had in my life!! When I got to work I could not even look at my beautiful plate of green and gold iced biscuits with ‘That’s Gold’ slogans and little pictures of the Harbour Bridge all over them as I felt too sick. I thought it would be better to stick to the salty variety of snack food and indulged in Burger Rings and Twisties!! I forgot how much I missed those little cheesy devils.
So onto Saturday….Shez and I woke up at 8:30am which is quite good for us considering we were tipsy enough on the RWF beforehand to stay up and watch the Disney movie Jump In….we were both so tired but determined to make it into London to Celebrate with other homesick Aussies at the lovely Slug and Lettuce Pub in Fulham London. We went up to the station dressed in out Australian flag earrings and gold scarves and made our way on a packed train into my lovely London Town with our very good friend Ange. I am SOO glad we arrived early as there was a line-up of people already out the front decked-out in anything remotely Australian from Dunlops and stubbies to a Steve Erwin Costume and of course the quintessential wardrobe item for the NRL male fan…the football jersey…no Knights fans I’m afraid : (
So we got in and nabbed a table and set ourselves up with a couple of £6 jugs of Snakebites which like the animal that they are named after are more lethal than I gave it credit for! Lordy!! It tastes like cordial and goes down so well that we went through too many jugs than I like to admit!! We danced to some good old fashioned Australian tunes and I swear that at one stage I could have sworn I was in my beloved Newcastle, surrounded by boys in football jumpers, the best of NRL Biffs ion the big screen and Barnsey playing in the background with people screaming the words so patriotically like the freakin national Anthem…rather funny really. So we kept on dancing the night away and made a couple of buddies for the night and then it was Homewood Bound on the bain of my London Partying existence…the tube!!! Once we stepped foot on that tube there was absolutely no mistaking what country we were in….let’s just say after about 6 different tube line changes and countless train cancellations, I was more than over it and not even my gorgeous Fosters hat and my little cricket player figurine that speaks could cheer me up. I must admit though the tube rides were as always so much fun! We all must have looked so classy in our matching hats and in true Shez and Flick style we managed to entertain everyone on our carriage and made some friends from all over the world – you see a bonus of the tube is that it is a one-stop-shop for international relations…where else in the world can an Aussie, a Scotsman and a Welshman meet and laugh all the way along the Central Line…I ask you. So once we got back to St Albans we dropped Ange off at home and then went to bed to wake up to a very lazy Sunday.
So that brings me to this weekend and what a weekend it was! Shaun had his birthday on Saturday night and it turned out to be a really cool party. Sheridan and I got ourselves all prettied up and made our way up the girls’ house for dinner and a few drinks. Shaun had some of his friends up from London that he knew from back home and they came up later in the evening for more drinks and a Singstar challenge. We all left in taxis to go out to a nightclub (one of 2 in St Albans) called Batchwoods which honestly is unlike anything I have seen before. It is set on 33 acres of land and feels like an old Estate Home equipped with manicured gardens and a gravel drive. We went in and headed straight for the disco room to dance the night away to classics like Greece Lightning and tracks from Dirty Dancing and Fame…(I love my cheese). What an awesome night!! Batchwoods has definitely been added to my repertoire of places to go in St Albans and I even managed to have a few dances with some boys (wonders never seize). There was such a huge mix of people there and with 3 levels to choose from you could NEVER get bored!! So after we all managed to get home I stayed up til about 6am and then went to sleep for a grand total of 3 hours and woke up the next morning feeling refreshed, a little seedy but still refreshed which is never a good sign after you have been out on the town for such a big night…..cut to Felicity having to lean onto a trolley for support as she mozied on through the aisles of Morrison’s trying to think of what food she may need for the week. I went home where Shaun cooked an amazing bacon and egg brunch and then somehow managed to convince me to go for a walk in minus degree weather…. We went to a place in St Albans I had never been before and was really impressed! We have a massive cathedral which I will go back and take some pics of and then you walk down a cute little park path down to a huge park which Shaun has not dubbed the ‘Hyde Park of St Albans’ it is actually quite big and it has swans and ducks everywhere…such a nice walk AND I got to see squirrels which I still embarrassingly get over excited about much to Shaun’s amusement!! So I got back to the house and my massive night finally caught up with me and I fell asleep and the rest as they say is history.
So I will leave you with this little snippet of the weeks happenings and as usual I am missing you all and even though I adore London I am craving a dose of my Australia…the sun, the beach, the food and of course the company!! A special shout-out goes to Becca who I spoke to on Friday night, so, so good to catch up. Shaun said he has never heard me laugh that much before and it made me miss home even more!! Thanks to all who have emailed and texted and I will speak to you all soon!
Lots of London Love – Flick xoxoxoxoxo
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