Sunshine

We watched a movie called Sunshine this week.
The premise is that the sun is dying. A ship was sent to detonate a bomb to activate the sun. Something goes wrong and they don't make it. So another ship is sent to do the same thing. It doesn't really tell you when in time it actually is and there are no shots of Earth. The whole film is based on the second ship that is sent.
The effects are fantastic and I felt that the movie was well crafted. It looked spectacular. There are no major stars in the movie which I thought was good. I was a little disappointed by the ending, but could understand how it came to that.
I do recommend seeing this movie, as, at least the Australians will appreciate the final scene of the movie.
The movie was directed by the sam guy who did Trainspotting and The Beach. It wasn't as good as Trainspotting, but a lot better than The Beach.

I'm back and ready to go

Well, I have finally made it to London and I have to say that it is the best city I have ever been to, or lived in. There is much to do it isn't funny and everything is so close, a short bus trip. Viva the Oyster card.
Working at our London venue is very different to the Manchester one. To start with here it is an outdoor track and subject to the weather, and yes we are still open and races still happen when it rains. I hate the rain. The suits are a mess and I am forever cleaning up after everyone that comes through. But on a beautiful day like we have been having recently it is absolutely fantastic. We also have all the group managers and the owner of the company on site. This means we are under a lot more pressure to perform. The venue is also very crappy and old. Though at the moment we are doing a lot of renovation work to make it a lot nicer. It will be really good once it is all finished.
You will be happy to know I haven't picked up any strange accents yet, though the south london accent is pretty strong and a couple of times I have come out with some oddities.
We have been sightseeing in all sorts of areas of London and have managed to see quite a bit. The best thing is we go into to town look at one thing and we end up coming across lots of other places as well. The other day after seeing Buckingham Palace we started walking and came across no. 10 Downing st. You can't acutally get anywhere near the house because there is a big locked gate with about 4 armed police officers in front of it. Which is a pity because I wanted to get a photo.
London is a little more expensive but we are doing pretty well with saving and hoping to go to Rome or Paris in the next couple of months. I am aiming for Paris, but we will have to see.

When will I be famous

This week has been a week of famous people to come through the doors of Daytona Manchester. Although I did not recognise any of them at least one is world wide famous.
On the weekend we had Jason Orange from Take That come in to race for someone's stag do. This made for a lot of excitement around thevenue. Though to be honest, and I will apologise to the Take That fans now, he wasn't that good looking. In fact he was very unattractive and really needs to shave the beard or whatever it is he has going on on his chin. I was quite disappointed. Now if Robbie had come in, that would have been a different story.
Today we had the members of The Feeling and The Fray come in to race. They are in Manchester on tour and came in to celebrate the end of the tour. You may not have heard of them, but the lead singer of The Feeling is married to Sophie Ellis-Baxter, whom you may have heard of. In fact he put her down as his emergency contact.
As you can tell we are pretty sad at Daytona, living each day hoping that another celebraty will walk through our doors to make us feel that much better about ourselves. Yeah, whatever.

London

Last weekend we went to London for the day to look at apartments. It was an incredibly long day. We caught a bus at midnight on the Friday night and then came back in the early evening on the Saturday. Managed to get a little sleep but not a whole lot. We looked at a place and we travelled around the tube for most of the day. I have to say though the tube system is fantastic. I don't really understand why so many people have issues with it. We visited the place where Andrew grew up. He was blowing out at how much it had changed since he was a kid. We saw a few famous places like Trafalgar Square, Big Ben and the London Eye. I loved it. It had a classic old feel to it rather than Manchester with its 70s feel. I can't wait to move down there. We will be going down again next weekend to look at some more places.
Some great news is that Andrew has got a job working with Croydon City Council. He is really happy and will be earning almost twice what he is now. I could almost be a kept women.

Snow

It is snowing all over the UK. Schools are closed, roads are shut. The white wintery stuff has arrived. Oh that is except for where we live. Thats right. The snow seems to have travelled up the country and parted like the red sea at Manchester and completly missed us. I am incredibly disappointed.
On Thursday we expected the snow. In the morning on my ride to work it lightly snowed the whole way, it was quite pretty. By the time I got to work the snow had stopped. It snowed a little throughout the day, then nothing. The next day the weather returned to typical Manchester weather and rained. So while the rest of the country enjoys the white stuff, all we get is the wet stuff.
I find it highly unfair!