Thats all folks

Well thats my last post from Cambridge.

I finish work tomorrow and fly out of Heathrow on Saturday.

Bye Cambridge

Second last day

Its now wednesday and the second last day in our flat. We are sitting on boxes and eating out of bowls, as all our other kitchen stuff is gone.

If I don't get time to post again,

Farewell cambridge, it has been great living here!!!

Almost there

I have not really had time to complete my post from a while ago, but I am going to say that its been busy trying to pack everything up.

We fly out next saturday so this blog will be no more!!! Its been great, even if I have been lazy, but I'm moving into a new phase of blogging when I'm home. I've started it at jknightsmith.net.

CHeers All

James

2 weeks and counting

Well almost. Just outside 2 weeks actually.

For those of you that are interested, I have a new site at jknightsmith.net. I add one photo a day to it.

Leaving Home

... well actually going home,

Yes thats right, we leave the UK on December 16th to fly to Japan. We are then back in Perth on Christmas eve and thats all folks.

More on this later!!!

Finally an update part 1

Well hello,

I received an email from tim about my blog not being updated so I decided to do it in a large chunk.

I moved a couple of months ago and this resulted in me taking 45 minutes to cycle to work. Now it has dropped to freezing, my nuts are the size of peas on the way to work.
This would have set up bec and I for a year however we encountered another problem which I will come onto.
Anyway it was halloween the other night and ite must be a nice area where we stay as we had about 50 sets of kids come to the door for treats, and they were the most polite kids I have ever met.

I got news my parents were coming to visit. They werw coming for 4weeks, in fact they are here in the UK now. They are spending 2 weeks with my sistae in Lonson(Did I mentison that, probably not, well my sister holly is no here in London) and 2 weeks with me.
In my 2 weeks, we travelled to Paris. It was tough I have tyo say. My mum can walk all day, but my dad normally packs it in after 2 hours. Needless to day we could hav eseen more hoswever we saw a lot including:
The eiffel tower
The arch de triumph
The Lourve
The orangeree
The Musee De Orsay
The Sacre Coure at Monmatre,
plus may others

We didn't make it to Verselles, whcih I'll do next time I'm in Paris with Bec. I filled a 2GB memory card with photos so I must have had a good time.

I also took my parens to Prague last week. Bec also came along and Holly joined us part the way through.
Prague was suprising, that say the least. Its touristy and most of the shops were selling russian trickets and other things, but I'm not sure how much was actually from Prague.
We visited the oldtown, the jewish quarter(sheesh bad feelings in this area), the new town, Prague Castle, petrin Hill and wald to other areas. They even have a tescos.
While prices have gone up in Prague, i'd say its still pretty cheap. Just watch out for all the stag/bucks nights on the weekends.

Now that other thing I mentioned, we had some issues with becs funding and after going through the figures, could not afford to stay here, unless we lived on a steady diet of 2 minute noodles.
There was a lot of twoing and frowing (is that how you spell it?) which bec dealt with and she was approved to go home for finish her phd in Perth.

So news is were are going home to live in perth at the end of the year. Aussie in Cambridge I will be no more.

Phew enough typing for now, more pictures and text later...

London Visit with Holly

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Visited Holly yesterday London. Had a nice time, but gee its tiring catching the train to and around London, I don't know how people can commute like that every day.

I took a lot of photos in Regents park and even walked past Sherlock Holmes old house on Baker Street.

More images at my flicker site.

Its getting hot in here!

Well, it has hit over 30 today and will for the rest of the week. It was also sweltering on the weekend, so much so that even I started to feel it.

I've been taking photos around Cambridge lately with my new digital camera. I have put some of them on my Flickr page. I've also been at work trying to get my home site jknightsmith.net working. It's a bit bare at the moment, but hopefully I will have something up by the end of the month.

The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age has just started filming in Cambridge. Its a followup to the movie Elizabeth and stars Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Geoffrey Rush. They are set up on Midsummer Common and filming mostly at St Johns College.

The head liquid metal

Bec and I found some head liquid metal 4 racquets with 70% off in a sports store here so we snapped them up. After that we decided to go off and play some tennis. We were a bit rusty and really sore today, but I think they will get a lot of use in the summer months.

finally another blog to read

My mate Chris and his lady friend Shannon have jsut started a new blog. They are living in Newman at the moment and have some nice pics of Karajini.

I have provided a link in my links area.

the prodical sister

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Originally uploaded by j_knightsmith.

Holly has touched down in London and I think she is enjoying it a lot.

She has come to visit bec and I twice in Cambridge and probably will do a lot more over the year.

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Originally uploaded by j_knightsmith.

We attended the aussie and newzealand club annual dinner with special guest the prince of edinburgh. We hardly saw him and he never made a speech, but we had a good night.

Thats becs hand in the photo.

The broken collarbone

Just received an update from my mate gansey who's living in Darwin.

He decided to try and do a jump and land on his shoulder while snowboarding in Japan, I think he pulled it off but snap went the collarbone. He spent the rest of the time getting toasted drinking sake and kirin!!!

He's the one with his thumb up!!!

Marriage time!!!

Nope not me, but my mates are dropping like flies, look at this list,

• Rohin to Kristy 22nd April
• Chris to Shannon 11th November
  
• Des to Michelle 18th November

I'm still waiting for Courteney's date though and I'm not sure what Tims up to.

Through another winter here

Well, I am finally through another winter here, and boy was it cold. It didn't help that I went to australia for 5 weeks over the christmas period flickr images here.

Its just warming up here, into the high single digits and into the teens (imagine thinking that was warm!!!), but then it rained again today, so I never hold out hopes for that.

I'm going to try and update this site a bit more, take more action.