Job Time






Okay so, I got the temp job for the summer I was talking about, looking after the 3 and 4 year olds with the 11 year old doing whatever. So the first week was good, awesome to be in a bed again, it’s a live in position for 8-9ish weeks till I’m off to Australia. They’re really nice and welcoming n all that, and Sams allowed over whenever he likes too. The first week was interesting, with the kids testing boundaries and all that, but by Friday I think I’d figured them out, and they’d figured me out and now we’re all on the same page. I hope. I did get an ‘I love you Alana’ from the boy on Friday.  There's heaps to do around their house, so I’m hoping to keep them occupied as hell till I finish.

So on Friday Sam, Simon, Todd and Blair set off in the Transit for the beginning of a Euro trip, with Sam and Simon coming back from Amsterdam on Wednesday next week. Boooo I don’t get to go. Ah well. I can only imagine the boyez-timez-funz that will be happening. Jealous. So as they were embarking on their awesome trip, I finished my first week (well 4 days) of work in 8 weeks. The longest time I’ve had off work since I started working, Wowza. I to meet a friend for a drink at some pub in Earls Court, and was having such a fun catch up time I missed the last train home. Annoying tube! Anyway, I hadn’t planned on that happening and hadn’t sorted the bus route alternative. Gosh darn! So a very confusing 45 minutes later I turned up at Guy and Sophies, after a bus then taxi (riiip).  Ding-dong...please take me in and thank god you’re awake. Learning time for Alana. Don’t go out without your watch and if you do, look at clocks every so often. Meh.

In the morning Guys out bright an early to get yums to cook breakfast, and then to the community garden in Battersea. This one is a lot friendlier and established and group effort feeling, it was really nice. The hot sunny day helped too. It’s only open on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings, but its right by the house I’m living in so I’ll be going back there. Pity I know almost nothing about veges, gardening and all that, but we did plant some things, weed some things, pick - or rather ‘harvest’ hahahaha - some things and come up with a plan for this sweet maze like garden which will probably only be cool in my head. Afterwards it was cider/cheese/nonplanning/shopping/wine/home/beer/100000cheese/mean feeds time. MMMM oh god cheese is just so awesome. 

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