http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana My thoughts on living and working in the UK and holidaying in Europe Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:38:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well this weekend my mate Rich, who's from Spain stopped over in London on his way back from Kuwait (working), and on his way to Paris then Valencia - he arriving on Friday and pretty much slept all day, which was fine as I was working from home and arranging ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/visits.html Okay so Friday night (10th October, 4 days before my H&S exam) two girls from work were having their birthday drinks down at Canary Wharf, I'd decided not go go during the day, but then got convinced to go down just for one drink to finish off the week and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/knee-injury-o.html Well since Spain and then my studying and exams I haven't had  time for much... and things I have done I've forgotten about! haha, however one show I saw which was fantastic was Les Miserables! Andrea Collins (my old teacher and friend of mom's from St Philip's) came over to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/les-miserables.html Well back in June, I started a British Safety Council Certificate 3 in Health and Safety (one step down from their Diploma as I'm not yet in a H&S role to manage at work) - anyhow I had a contact week in June, then was self studying, including whilst on ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/bsc-certificate-3-health-safety.html Time to catch up on the diary entries before life gets too far ahead of us too fast! Valencia -- Bunol -- Madrid On Monday, 25 August (a bank holiday in UK), Mara and I set off to Stansted to meet up with Sarah Schmidt (an old NHS HfL colleague of mine) ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/spain-trip-la-tomatina-27-august.html Well the weekend started with a Saturday afternoon edition of Romeo & Juliet thanks to Mara scoring free tickets - so off went Naomi, Mara and I to see that near Embankment Station. The Old Law Courts acted as the theatre and the building interior is amazing. They still get ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/visa-london-2012-party-handover-of-games-weekend.html Well an interesting start to the week so far. Monday night I went along to my York Hall (normal) gym's 'thai kick boxing' aerobics class - which turned out to be utter crap! The warm up was good, but the actual skills the guy was teaching the attendees were crap. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/street-fighter-should-have-played-the-video-game.html Well last weekend, 16 August, after doing kickboxing as normal on Saturday morning I had a quick shower then jumped on the bus to London Bridge station, where I met up with Sarah and Mara - we were off for a girls weekend with Emma (Sarah and Emma are part ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/girls-weekend-in-maidstone.html So... things seem disjointed in my writing since Turkey and Galippoli but from now I'll try and keep more up to date and things shall flow (like the rain falling here in summer..) once more. So, after returning from Turkey, almost exactly a month later Mara and I headed off to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/trips-away.html Well - it's been a while (understatement!) since I've updated my journal! Mainly because I've not actually had that many interesting-enough things happening to write about... and was quite unsettled for a while! So to put it in a nutshell (help help I'm in a nutshell - Megan and Mimi ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/lijadana/explaining-my-where-abouts.html