Failed already.....but I have been to London!

So I've completely failed in my attempt to update my blog on a weekly basis, if I am honest it's because I'm rubbish and have been lazy, though I do have a few excuses lined up! I did have to send my laptop away for repair and have been on a short trip to London.

So whats happened since my last update. Thankfully I have been paid and as mentioned I have indeed purchased an Xbox360 which is brilliant and took a nice 2 day break in London.

My trip to London was the first time I've actually visited it with the purpose of seeing the sights, I have driven through the centre in the past and stayed near the centre whilst on a course but this time I took in the sites. My impressions are all good and things that struck me were:

• How big it is, yet how small! I know that may not make sense, but London is huge and when looking on the A to Z (thanks Jess, for letting me borrow it) to find out where I am and where I wanted to go it looked quite some distance, yet I found I would have only been walking for a few minutes I was upon my destination or close to it, so walking became a big part of the trip.
  
• The London underground or the tube, what an amazing piece of British engineering and something us Brits should be proud of, not only is it an achievement to build what is essentially a railway line 100+ft under the ground, the fantastic thing about it is..it actually works and in my opinion it works bloody well.


• People employed at the attractions. One thing I noticed it seemed most people employed at the attractions I went to were foreign, whether this is because the pay is so poor that no one else wants to take the job I don't know, but all were friendly and nice and doing a grand job.


• The amount of amazing things. I managed to take in a lot of attractions on my visit. London aquarium, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast, National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Imperial War Museum, British Museum and a 'flight' on the London eye. all of these thing were very cool and amazing to see so much British and world history.

A picture of the Houses of Parliament at night taken by me, whilst awaiting my trip on the London eye

So after the highlight of a trip to London it's been back to work and same old, same old, though the 6 nations rugby tournament has started which is great and England are of to a good start having won both the opening games. A great performance against Scotland and the return of Jonny Wilkinson, but more of a lackluster performance against the Italians, but they still managed to get a win which is the important thing.

A big up must go to the England cricket team for winning the Commonwealth Bank one day series beating the Aussies 2-0 in the best of 3 series final, a great performance considering how bad the tour to Australia has gone. No doubt now as we have beaten the Aussies twice the great British press will get carried away and think we can win the cricket world cup next month, but if we get knocked out in the knock out stages or even worse do not qualify for the knock out stages, the press will then claim we are rubbish and demand that Duncan Fletcher is sacked and Ian Botham installed as the new coach as he was England's greatest ever player, even though he has never really coached before and has carved out a nice job as a cricket commentator. Lets remember the British sports press know better than any coach who has played the game at a professional level and coached at the highest level!! In my opinion they should either put up or shut up.

That's it for now, more again soon...