The Socceroos are coming to town in a couple of weeks to play a friendly match against Ghana.
The match is being held 'down the road' at Loftus Road Stadium, which is a 30 minute trip for us, door to door. And we have tickets. It will be great to see them play after their efforts at the World Cup.
C'mon Aussie!
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Aussie Rules
Last Saturday we joined our friends Alun and Nec in visiting The Oval to watch the Geelong Cats play Port Adelaide in a special one-off AFL game.
It was good to be surrounded by fellow Australians cheering on the game (despite a general apathy for the two teams who were playing) .
A highlight for us was being able to venture onto the ground following the completion of the game. While those who had decided to bare all and run on early (as in during the game) were taken away in handcuffs we were allowed to legitimately walk across the field after the final siren.
We ended up wandering through the Long Room in the Members Stand before heading on home.
While not as impressive as the Long Room and Members area at Lords, it is still a nice place to visit, even more so when you have a bunch of Australian wandering around more or less oblivious to the class system usually in place in such locales. No one told us we couldn't, so we did.
It was good to be surrounded by fellow Australians cheering on the game (despite a general apathy for the two teams who were playing) .
A highlight for us was being able to venture onto the ground following the completion of the game. While those who had decided to bare all and run on early (as in during the game) were taken away in handcuffs we were allowed to legitimately walk across the field after the final siren.
We ended up wandering through the Long Room in the Members Stand before heading on home.
While not as impressive as the Long Room and Members area at Lords, it is still a nice place to visit, even more so when you have a bunch of Australian wandering around more or less oblivious to the class system usually in place in such locales. No one told us we couldn't, so we did.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Where have we been?
It's been about three weeks since the last post here and a few people have asked if we have dropped off the planet.
No, not quite.
Natalie has been very busy at work lately. She has been working on a project requiring her to put in long hours Monday to Friday and usually a number of hours on the weekend. So we haven't got out much. But here's a few things we did in recent times:
No, not quite.
Natalie has been very busy at work lately. She has been working on a project requiring her to put in long hours Monday to Friday and usually a number of hours on the weekend. So we haven't got out much. But here's a few things we did in recent times:
- We visited Abingdon (a small town in Oxfordshire) and the famous White Horse a few Saturdays back on a day trip out of London.
- Went to the reception of some friends' wedding last Saturday.
- Celebrated Kate's birthday with dinner at a local Mexican restaurant
Apart from the above I have been enjoying quiet weekends now that cricket is over. I get to sit down and watch the Huskers play on TV from time to time as well as enjoy the Bathurst 1000 last weekend. There was live coverage of it which I watched until 4:30 in the morning before deciding that it was better to watch the replay later that day (on a side note Natalie didn't realise how long it would take to watch the full replay!).
We hope to go on some more day trips before the weather turns cool. It is still nice during the day, so long as there is sunshine.
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