Moose on the Move!

Catching up!

Another busy month. After the dissapointing loss of the Eagles in the Grand Final in Australia we heard from various people at home about an upcoming exhibition match to be played in London on the 8th October between the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers. Thanks to all who called/e-mailed to ensure we knew, but as it turned out we had already booked tickets several weeks previously.

So that Saturday we caught the train up to London to meet up with some friends. We got to see Leia's new place - much nicer and in a nicer area than her last place. As we left Leia's place we were a group of 8 or 9 but as we got closer to The Oval the number of blue/yellow and purple/green/red clad people inceased until we were walking amidst a thick current of mostly Australian fans (and a few slightly confused locals).

The atmosphere inside the Oval grounds was excited. We found our seats, got a beer and then Chris went off in search of Meat Pies. We'd heard rumours that they would be sold here (they'd have to be wouldn't they?) and he returned triumphant, from the hunt.

The game itself wasn't as exciting as we might have hoped, it took me an hour to get through the bar line to buy beers for the rest of the group, the quarters were only 20 minutes long, most of the big name players weren't on the field and the Dockers beat the Eagles ...! What!? None-the-less it was a fun day out and we got to share a bag of Twisties with some friends who had visited the Australian Store at the game. Oh my goodness! How good are Twisties when you havn't had them for eight months!? So very good!

The following day the two of us headed into the city centre to catch up with Jeff and Jess for lunch. Jess had suggested that we go to a Chinese restaurant near Leicester Square for a Yum Cha lunch (a style of eating where you order from a large range of small individual pieces of food to share with the others at your table - very social). It is wonderful having Yum Cha with someone who speaks the language and is willing to take responsibility for ordering for everyone. Thanks Jess!

The following week, back in Exeter we went to see a performance of The Ladykillers at the Northcott Theatre. It was quite different from the film (with Tom Hanks and that odd laugh) for anyone who has seen it - but was still very good. The set was quite amazing and the actors were very good, we were particulary fond of the 'big, dumb guy' character.

This month I finished my mosaic course. I am really quite happy with the final product - my terracotta dish looks really funky and now has pride of place on our coffee table in the lounge room!! Yay!

My Danish 'Family' (who I lived with for about four months while on exchange in 1997) were going to be visiting London towards the end of the month and as I hadn't seen them for over a year I headed up for a night. It was fabulous to see them and we had a nice day wandering around the city (looking for boots for Katrine...unsuccessfully) and just generally catching up. I left them in the afternoon, as they went off to get ready to see The Phantom of the Opera and I headed home to Chris.

With Halloween approaching and the shop windows decked out with orange we decided to carve our first pumpkin together. 'Jack' took shape on our kitchen bench and the next night we took him out into the countryside to take some photos of him lit up. We tried a few star-trail shots too, but it was a windy night and they didn't work as well as the ones we did in our back yard earlier in the month we did get some neat shots of 'Jack' though.

The last few days of October were spent in Denmark. That part of the blog will come in the next update... :) too much to add on here.