The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Anthony Kiedis and Flea.... ring any bells?

Tuesday night saw about 10 000 people heading out to Earls Court Areana to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Usually you're expecting someone like the peppers to have a fairly well known support act. For our night it was !!! Google's archnemisis...
Standing around having a beer and waiting for the show to start.... and then the lights went out and the cheering started. Heading back inside we saw the support act had taken to the stage... 9 of them... 2 lead singers, 4 people on the drums, 2 guitarists and one random rolling around on the floor... Honestly if you ever get the chance to see !!! otherwise known as pitchfork... RUN... it's probably the worst act i've seen in years... nothing but pure noise.... voted chav band of the year.

And then came the peppers. The stage didn't look like much and we were trying to find monitors but then they started and the stage lit up

















Unfortunately my little camera on my phone isn't brilliant, but you get the basic idea.
It was an amazing concert, the played just about everything that I was hoping for... except for Soul to Squeeze. I would definately recommend going to see them if you ever get the chance.

On leaving it was clear that there was going to be a shortage of train space for all of the people.... we walked out the front doors and the tube station is directly over the road... you just saw people running at full tilt trying to get to the tubes and the police standing by not really being able to do anything... luckily for us we could head to West Brom station and catch the overland from there... not quite as crowded

All that's left for this year are the Rolling Stones... i don't think we've done too badly... would have liked to see Dave Matthews band... but that'll have to wait till next time he's here.

Doggie biscuits

A fond farewell to a long time friend....

I figure this is as good a place as any... instead of breaking down at the office I think I'll just say my little bit here.

A faithful friend of many years has gone to doggie heaven this morning. Tequila, I hope you are chasing waves in the sky boy.

Almal wil 'n huisie by die see he

But most of us will just settle for a house.

After about 2 months of looking for a place to live... we struck gold. Finding a nice place to live around here is sort of like squeezing blood from a stone. First you have to decide where you would like to hang your hat... then comes the ex-council, or ex-local authority... which no matter how hard you try to avoid them... some of these delightful agents still insist on showing you... then comes the matter of council tax... i guess it's like rates and taxes and then some... So on top of the cost of the house you have that, which on average is about "£1200 - £1800 per year, depending on where you live.

So we're now going to be living near clapham south tube station. Which is a nice area, cool shops, little common (park) over the road, 4 bedroom house, 3 bathrooms, huge kitchen, study, 2 lounges and lo and behold... a little piece of grass outside that we can put a weber on...

Now that we're signed up we're moving all our bills (internet and sky tv) over to the new address... something that you think they would make fairly easy for you... not quite so easy.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the london bombings, so as you can imagine the city is on high alert, the company is making us wear security tags that are visible at all times etc etc... At least the tubes will be quiet tomorrow morning.. I wonder how many people are actually going to walk to work. We'll see.

So that's just a little bit of info from this side of the world. I have somewhere nice to live with Kev, Grant, Lauren and Brad... which we've all decided is going a horrible idea, but it'll work for now.

Pics coming shortly, promise :-)