Rachel and I had a posh rendez-vous at Malmaison in Birmingham... Actually to be honest Rachel was the most glamorous with her posh bag... I still haven't lost the student rucksack look...
MalMaison is located in the 'Mailbox'... it has a small spa with massage chairs and a Jacuzzi pool and sauna etc. I felt I was re-living some of my expat life in the UK... but at a rather greater financial cost than in Asia ;o)
Hils and I were spotted in a public toilet in Stony Stratford... reason: very exciting public toilet with an electric loo role dispensing machine (just 2 pieces of paper per press of the loo role dispensing button)... there is also a count down timer and a ladies voice that tells you how many minutes in the loo you have remaining (out of a possible 15) before the electric doors open and expose you to the world... all this excitement cost just 20p... incredible.
We paid a visitation to Esther-Joy, who is very cute. Here she is propped up like a princess surveying her minions...
Hils then made E-J's hair stand on its fluffy ends as she introduced her to Santa (admittedly rather unseasonable in February).
It snowed... very very exciting... although it didn't stay on the ground for more than 10min I did get to cycle to work in it... which made me wish I had some ski goggles on! Here is Kert all ready to ride, getting snowed on whilst I jump up and down with snow excitement and take photos of the 10 min of flakes...
Snow on the cycle path... the redways become white ways (temporarily)
The Holiday Inn Express takes on the look of a Swiss Ski Chalet (or is that stretching ones imagination slightly too much?)
I acquire new landlords (well they will be at the end of the month). Spearsy and Arth (note matching landlord/ property tycoon beards) feature with the classy desk, and most glorious fake flowers the previous owner of their new abode left behind when she moved (how kind).
The Nadj, old gal extraordinaire left for the Philippines for 6 long long months of schmoozing around for the FCO... very sad day it is to see her go.
However this occasion seemed to call for us to try on some of her many sunglasses... Here is Ed, me (and my red coat which seems to be the thing that I am wearing most often in photos on this blog) and Laurence.
MalMaison is located in the 'Mailbox'... it has a small spa with massage chairs and a Jacuzzi pool and sauna etc. I felt I was re-living some of my expat life in the UK... but at a rather greater financial cost than in Asia ;o)
Hils and I were spotted in a public toilet in Stony Stratford... reason: very exciting public toilet with an electric loo role dispensing machine (just 2 pieces of paper per press of the loo role dispensing button)... there is also a count down timer and a ladies voice that tells you how many minutes in the loo you have remaining (out of a possible 15) before the electric doors open and expose you to the world... all this excitement cost just 20p... incredible.
We paid a visitation to Esther-Joy, who is very cute. Here she is propped up like a princess surveying her minions...
Hils then made E-J's hair stand on its fluffy ends as she introduced her to Santa (admittedly rather unseasonable in February).
It snowed... very very exciting... although it didn't stay on the ground for more than 10min I did get to cycle to work in it... which made me wish I had some ski goggles on! Here is Kert all ready to ride, getting snowed on whilst I jump up and down with snow excitement and take photos of the 10 min of flakes...
Snow on the cycle path... the redways become white ways (temporarily)
The Holiday Inn Express takes on the look of a Swiss Ski Chalet (or is that stretching ones imagination slightly too much?)
I acquire new landlords (well they will be at the end of the month). Spearsy and Arth (note matching landlord/ property tycoon beards) feature with the classy desk, and most glorious fake flowers the previous owner of their new abode left behind when she moved (how kind).
The Nadj, old gal extraordinaire left for the Philippines for 6 long long months of schmoozing around for the FCO... very sad day it is to see her go.However this occasion seemed to call for us to try on some of her many sunglasses... Here is Ed, me (and my red coat which seems to be the thing that I am wearing most often in photos on this blog) and Laurence.
1 comment:
nice think we should use that picture on the front cover of Misty and Spears property tycoons inc publicity materials !
house the house?
im back blogging again yeah
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