One way to the UK?

I’m really not surprised at the comment of ‘whinging pom’ all the time because the weather over here is, for the most part, so dull! Add some sunshine to London and it would be gorgeous. Fingers, toes and everything else are crossed for a hot summer. Of course the only bad thing about the warmer weather over here (when it eventually comes) is that the tubes will be even more unbearable… uhh well!

Just a quick post – new job with Healthcare for London is still going well. The team ewnt bowling on Wednesday night and it was a really fun night out! I realised I now suck at bowling… well at least that my bowling skills are like my pool (billiards) skills in that I sometimes have good fluke shots and not much luck the rest of the time. Some team members improved as the alcohol increased in their system, others got worse. I’m happy to say I improved by second game by 16 points! It was a good night out, quite different to the hangover-inducing all nighters at the pub with the Olympics team that I’m used to, but great and sociable all the same.

This morning on my way to work we were stopped at the road crossing by a VIP escort. No idea who the fella was, but both Range Rovers (yep, black and no doubt bullet proof) must have been on their way to Buck Palace with a 3-bike escort. The little walking man was green, but one motorbike came driving up with a ‘whistle’ noise coming from it (not a siren), and just pulled up to the side (like a motoX move) in the middle of the traffic interesection and sat there on his bike, then another bike came racing through and around the corner, followed by the two rovers and another bike, and then they all continued on their way with flashing lights etc…. and the rest of us continued on our M-F march to work buildings!

Well on the way home tonight from gym I realised why most of the round-abouts here around London are dodgy little flat ones, or literally painted on the roads – it’s because the bloody normal drivers don’t know how to move out of the way for emergency services cars! It’s unbelievable, and something I’ve noticed since moving over here, that cars just do not move for emergency cars! The roads are barred/separated by metal fencing to keep the up and down traffic separate, and so even when traffic lights are red and there’s cars waiting and an emergency vehicle comes blaring up to the intersection ,the cars just don’t move! Must be too scared they’ll get in trouble for running a red light or something – I dunno!

 Well work this week was good – my effort at gym could have been a bit better though! I think I’ve settled into Healthcare for London quite well, and am enjoying myself there and getting to know the new team and my boss! Next Wednesday my small team is going bowling (10 pin) and Emma and I decided on getting a trophy for the best on the night! Then on 3 March Healthcare for London is having a posh event to welcome my boss so that should be nice! We’re moving into our new office area (2nd floor) that same day, so us girls will have to take our dressy clothes with us to wear out that evening! Oh yeah that’s the other thing to get used to at my new workplace – it is primarily females, quite the opposite to my Olympics Logistics team with 3 women and about 34 men! Perhaps that’s the natural split between Construction and Health industries!?

Wednesday night I went out for drinks with my old ODA team and it was a really nice night! As usual, it wasn’t just drinks at the pub but rather an interesting conversation and the questions to answer on this night was Favourite Sport to watch, and sport you’d want to be entered into the 2012 Olympics to compete in! I said Gymnastics or Water Polo, and now we all have to hope Ray (my old ODA boss) doesn’t bloody pull some strings and actually enter us! hahaha what a laugh. Anyhow the night was really enjoyable, just with about 6 of us (not my on-site CLM Logistics team, but my ODA one) so it’s great to have my nice new Healthcare for London team, as well as keeping my old workmates and friends from the Olympics.

So yeah Mon and Tues nights I went to gym, Tuesday night I did my ‘day 2’ programme (usually on wednesday) as well as my normal Tuesday swimming to counteract the drinking for Wednesday night! Thursday night I took off, and tonight I went in and struggled a little bit, I think I have weak arms and shoulders when lifting above my head, so tomorrow I’m going in to do Cardio as that’s what else I struggle with and give in too easily on!