Archive for August, 2001

Another episode of life in the UK :)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2001

Hi everyone
People here are still asking us how we’re settling in but as far as we’re concerned, we *are* settled in. It’s hard to define but I think you do reach a certain level of familiarity with your surroundings and the things you do on a day to day basis, and once you’re there [...]

Plane spotting and other miscellanea

Sunday, August 12th, 2001

Hi all
Here we are at the end of another week… For us things are certainly settling into a routine again although my routine of job-hunting will hopefully be changing in the not too distant future! All the agencies confirm that this is a slow time for the job market but they are all [...]

Online at last – in our own home

Wednesday, August 1st, 2001

Hi
We’ve been living here for 4 days now and it certainly feels good to have a place to call home. We contacted British Telecom (BT) yesterday and by the time we got home with our £4.99 telephone, the line was already available.
We ran into some problems with the modem though; no. 1 being that [...]