All OK now

My furniture arrived on Friday. All brand new, not to my taste but who's complaining...its all here. Its that glass and chrome look that's popular here, I think its a bit "60 Minute Makeover". I suppose you could call it "Designer Warehouse Chic".

I caught up with Ann & Raj at Charmaine & Ian's dream home in Hampshire last week. Ann offloaded a doona cover on me (I refuse to say "duvet" or "garridge" for garage, which is a petrol station, or "hoover" for vacuum) and some other handy stuff.




I'm watching the Olympics, so over team GB, but must admit their cycling team are good. The response from most locals I get when I open my mouth is "So, how many gold medals have the Australians won?" They know its only one and are loving beating us. So they should, all the lottery money going in to sport, buying the best coaches from all over the world, hometown advantage and all that.

I went into Cardiff city centre today, there's a little train that leaves from a station about 200m from home. It takes about 3 minutes from the Bay to then City. PDR all day and bucketing now. City is full of people going to GB v S Korea Olympic football tonight, there are a lot of pubs, bars and restaurants and Millennium Stadium is right in the city. I'm going there next Friday night for the bronze medal football game. I hope GB win tonight to get to semi final but lose semi because they will play for bronze then.

Shopping again tomorrow for household essentials. Luckily Cardiff is a city of superstores and retail parks so I can pick up everything cheap. I'm a Tesco fan now. Supermarkets are a lot better here than home, but as expected fruit & veg is not that fresh. The locals love superstores.

Big two weeks of travel and work coming up. I'm going to change work cars, the big diesel VW Passat they gave me is a beast to drive, and not very practical in cities or driving country roads, and I can hardly get it into my parking space.