One of the great things about being in London is the huge array of theatre plays and musicals on at any given time. We have already gone to see Phantom of the Opera and have had our eye on another play, 'On an Average Day', starring Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan. We thought it would be great to see two big Hollywood stars in action on the stage but a limited season and financial constraints seemed to be working against us.

Speaking of footy, our first trip to the infamaous Aussie pub, The Walkabout in Sheperdsbush, was to watch the AFL Grand Final. We didn't make it to the 4:30am beer and breakfast live session, but we did get to the 1pm replay session.

It was wall-to-wall with Aussies so you couldn't move - not that you could have if you wanted to, the floor was so sticky!

It was a fantastic game to watch, even better because we didn't know who had won. We were baracking for the Pies, for the sake of Aimee's Dad mostly. Watching the game at the Walkabout was a bit like watching the game from 'the Outer'.

I have some photos, which may appear here later...

Last weekend (not the one just gone) we went along to The Oval to watch the AFL's London Exhibition match between Essendon and Richmond. It was a wintry Melbourne day and a full capacity 12,000 Aussies (and about 12 locals) turned up for the festivities. Someone in our group commented "Last one out of Earls Court, turn off the lights", which was pretty accurate I think.

This is my 5th week of being a house-husband. I've been looking for work, but unfortunately web development work has dried up in London. From everything I've heard and read the whole industry has been struggling since the dotcom bubble burst a more than a year ago. People aren't spending money on web sites anymore.

Congratulations to my little sister, Sarah, who recently got engaged to Corey. Corey is excellent, and he surfs, so Aimee and I wish them every happiness together.

Now both of my sisters have rung me while I've been over-seas to tell me they are engaged. Maybe the two boys were waiting for me to leave first...

For those viewing from home (Geelong that is), you might be interested to know that we caught up with Chad and Christine last week. It's been a quite a while, so it was great to see them again.

We were to meet them at Picadilly Circus, for dinner in Soho, but when we arrived Chad decided we should go on a 'Ghosts by Gaslight' walking tour / pub crawl. So we did.

The weather really is the most popular topic of conversation over here, and everybody at home has been interested to here what the London weather is like, so I'll tell you. So far, it has been pretty good. In fact, they say that September was abnormally fine and warm. It has only rained 2 or 3 times since we arrived, around 6 weeks ago. Most days are either sunny or a little hazy, some are coolish, but mostly still high teens or low 20s. Today it's sunny and 20.