Hi all. ....wish had time to write to everyone separately at the moment.....but i REALLY don't. Thank you for the letters and the amazing red Depot book and the cards....

(for people who didn't know me reading this.....are you wondering if I'm just making up all these people who care about me?..)

So straight down to the important stuff...

Friday night here is quite impressive.... Alex and I got off the tube at Camden last night (by the way... the tube is not huge and confusing, it is incredibly well organised, and well labeled....you would never see anything so sensible in NZ ever) and there is this big crowd of people gathered around these guys freestyle battling....they had mikes hooked up to a little generator (like this tiny baby generator)....there was a DJ spinning on the street with these little portable decks. .... it was awesome.... everyone knows rap sounds better with English accents... maybe French would be the best though....

The pubs are OLD and COOL...not like....designed last month with old furniture to look cool.....ACTUALLY cool and old. The architecture is of course amazing....all these art Nouveau curves and brick, brick, brick....(yes I had to look up how to spell Nouveau)..

I never thought I'd find a city where you walk into a pub and the first guy you strike up a conversation with can make intelligent comments on Jonne Donne and Commodore 64 gaming! ...

Thank bog for Flight of the Concords.... they REALLY upped our game over here....other wise its just 'lord of the rings'..no real street cred there....

My flat living is going O.K...I am wary of outstaying my welcome of course.... I'll just chalk it up to karma and have a bunch of you fools come crash on my couch when I get established here....

I also went to a casting call today to be an extra in a film about John Lennon....it meant I travelled all the way out to west London. It is VERY pretty....green parks and windyish roads and gardens.....cobbled lanes... and all the brick! (of course).

There were people on the streets with little carts selling flowers and sausages...HEAPS of salami and kransky...weird...what an impulse buy.....'here I go walking to the store and whats that? gotta buy a massive salami stick!!!'

For those of you who have been a bit cut up about my not having a return ticket........ I'll tell you a story... when the ancient Greeks sailed to war and landed on enemy shores the first thing they would do is turn around and burn their boats so all the men would know the only way home is to fight and win, returning a few years later with bounty and honour. That's a bit like me with my one way ticket. Its not a goodbye forever. (don't check that fact on wikipedia....ok? take it as a paraphrase if I'm wrong)--

this is such a book club huh? where are the photo's?......

-S