Sorry I've been so quiet...

Not too many exciting occurrences happening as of late. I have been working at our local Bakery, which is just 200 meters down the road. It's really convenient to live so close to work, and enjoyable to be able to walk there everyday. As much as I'm missing my car, walking is good, and good for you.

New family member, Bambi.

But one up on the walking, Kends and I have been skateboarding quite a bit lately. We made another trip down to Newquay on Tuesday, and I managed to procure a second-hand Sector 9. Kends has had her longboard for a few weeks now, and it is far more enjoyable to both have a board and skate around town than it is to share, haha.

Now wherever we go, no matter how near or far, we are accompanied by our new babies.

Oh, we also hit up our first buffet last week for dinner. Our local Chinese restaurant (there are an incredible amount of Chinese take-away places in Plymouth, but this place is the only real restaurant) is about 3km's walk. They have a buffet open everyday of the week, and you can gorge yourself on the largest array of Chinese cuisine for a measly £7. And that's not all... apart from the usual variety of fried meat and veg, sweet & sour meat and veg, spring rolls and what-not, Sushi was included in the buffet!
Needless to say, we were both glad we had to walk home, so we could start burning those calories, and not fall into an instant food coma.

Our harbour is also playing host to somewhat of a celebrity at the moment. The famous HMS Bounty, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame, has been docked in our craft harbour for the last few days. So a multitude of Pirate, Ship, and Pirate Ship enthusiast have been flocking down there. Kends being an enthusiast of all three of those criteria, haha.

HMS Bounty

Other than that there is nothing incredible exciting to report. The weather has still been treating us very well, apart fro being slightly more windy than usual.

Thanks for reading again.

Ooh, one more thing. Found this on the Hoe, which is the really big park that overlooks the bay, and could not stop myself from laughing. If you have seen the 40 Year old Virgin, it'll make sense.

She was a...

Adios!

Sorry for the tardiness.

Tom, the Merman, Merman!!

I apologise for the lack of postage on my side, we have had a busy few days with all the public holidays and whatnot. 

So last weekend was a banger of note. Kends finished her last week of work placement on Thursday (that would be the 21st of April) and was no longer working for the man, which meant no more early rising. Needless to say, she's a lot nicer in the mornings now. Kidding! But not really...

Anyways, as somewhat of a celebration, we went out to dinner on Thursday evening and treated ourselves to some wonderful pizza's. Eating out here is a LOT more expensive than it is at home, so this was indeed  real treat. Later that night we met up with Kendyl's friend Zennor, and we had a few drinks. Now, we are both getting old, so we called it an early night and made our way home.

Friday had finally arrived, the day I was going to see Comeback Kid, The Ghost Inside and Grave Maker!! They were playing at our local music venue, White Rabbit. I am doing a write up about the show for Rise Magazine, so I won't go into too much detail on here, as most of you aren't too interested in that, haha. Due to an arrangement problem on the bands' behalf, the show was nearly cancelled, but this was rectified at the last minute. The outcome resulted in the first band playing at 5:30, and the entire show being over by just before 9:00. It is a tad surreal to have the sun still out while the final band takes the stage. Although, the early end to the evenings activities was reluctantly accepted by Kends... not. Needless to say, the show was incredible. Sublime bands, awesome sound, great venue, fun was had by all. 

The Ghost Inside

Comeback Kid!

On Saturday morning we got up pretty early and decide to hit the tarmac at the Hoe with our longboard again, hopefully not literally again, in Kends' case. We arrived to some dismay. The carnival was in town, and their temporary monstrosities known as Fun Rides were hogging our prime piece of longboard heaven. They graciously left us a small piece to have some fun on, and we met a family of skateboard freaks. They had everything you could think of; normal skateboards, longboards, roller skates, and some other weird contraptions. We spent a few hours down there and made our way home before the wind moved in, which was particularly chilly that afternoon. The next day we met up with Tom and Elinor, two of Kends friends who are at Uni with her. Tom has a car, which is a kind of rarity to us at the moment, and generously offered to whisk us of to a beach for the day. We spent most of the day at Morecoomb beach, soaking up sun and staying well clear of their frigid excuse for seawater. After a good dosage of vitamin D, we headed back to Toms place for a barbi, or to us, a braai. We battled to get the fire going, it took us around 3 hours to see some fruition. Unfortunately we gave up on it earlier on, as we didn't have the required patience. We had already cooked our food in the oven when the fire decided it was time to make an appearance. It was almost as if it was mocking us, oh Murphy, why did you have to make up that law.

Fortunately, we hadn't resorted to doing our marshmallows in the oven, and still had them as some sort of consolation. After a good day in the sun, and a hearty meal, we meandered home and had ourselves a super sleep. Most of last week was spent skating and downloading the final few seasons of "That '70s Show".

Liquid love

This weekend was one many could not wait for, as it was the Royal Wedding on Friday. We arose just in time to catch a bit of it on tv, but I must admit, I don't share the nigh on maniacal obsession with the ceremony as the rest of the people here do. Maybe they perceive it to be patriotic or something, but I just don't get it. We headed over to a friends house for a celebration braai, but ended up sucking down a few beers, and heading home without eating anything, as beer counts as food, right? Oh, on a side note, FOSTERS is awesome!! Yes, yes, I know, it IS Australian, but I don't care, it is awesome. I also did my first official shift at Warrens Bakery, my new place of work. It's pretty basic, serve the customers with a smile on my face. Nothing incredibly exciting but it pays (part of) the bills. 

This morning we headed to our local to catch the Liverpool game, and I am pretty darn happy that we managed to smash the Magpies 3-0!

Whatup Suarez!

True to form, Sundays is Bean Bunny day in our household, and we just feasted on a big, hot one. It must be said, Kends' curry making skills have gotten dangerously good. I say dangerously, as I fear I need to watch out that she isn't abducted by some Indian bachelor looking for the perfect bride.

As I write this we are watching Indiana Jones and Kends is finishing off her dissertation. Miss all of you back home.

Adios!