February 10 2006

It is another beautiful day today. Though it is a brisk -2 degrees outside with no chance of snow because there isn't a cloud in the sky, finally cold enough and no chance of snow, a shame really.The winter olympics start tonight and all over the news people keep talking about if it is worth the British actually competing and spending money in this field because they aren't a Nordic country. I was very tempted to call up to tell them that Australia only won two gold medals last winter olympics and one of them was only the last man standing so what do they have to complain about. They complain about everything. We usually listen to talk back radio and they complain all day every day baout different things and if they should try to change them. I think I am going to have to start listening to another station. We still don't have a tv, but as soon as Andrew gets paid I am out there to get a tv. They have a deal where you can pay your licence over a few weeks but you get your licence straight away so we are going to do that because we can't afford the licence straight up, it is about ?120 for one year.Went to the pub last night for their quiz night. We thought we had done pretty well but we ended up coming equal last on 30 out of 40. Andrew was pretty disappointed thought I think we had been cheated out of a couple of points on mere technicalities, but it was fun and I actually knew some of the answers. One of the questions was a primitive weapon that has a elbow, a dimple end and, I can't remember the other part. I thought it was a catapult, turns out it was a boomerang. We felt very bad that as Australian's we didn't know the answer to that one. The prize for winning was a galleon of beer, that's right a galleon. It is about 7 pints. Second place won 4 pints. Beer is realitively cheap over here in pubs, so Andrew wants me to get into the beer. it is either larger or bitter in the pubs. Each pub has its chosen supplier and only provides on tap that suppliers larger and bitter. So at the pub we go to hear their supplier is Hydes, so on tap they have Hydes larger and bitter. At the other pub we went to before we moved, their supplier is Jonathon Holt so again they only have those beers on tap. On the outside of the pub it will say which supplier they have. It is quite good, if you know what supplier you like just wander around to find a pub that serves that particular kind, there are enough pubs around and generally they will all have different suppliers you can usually find the one you like.I am off the register at Andrews company today. They deal with legal placements but they also have a commercial area and they are all apparently quite keen to register me as well as meet me. So it should be an interesting evening.