Post-Christmas update

I hope everyone back home had a good Christmas, ate heaps of good food, and opened up lots of presents. Unfortunately we didn’t get any snow, something I was really hoping would happen, like most South Africans, I’ve never had a white Christmas, and like many South Africans, I still haven’t had a white Christmas.

We did get thick frost though! As if that’s supposed to make up for the lack of cold white powder covering everything in sight. Other than the lack of snow, Christmas in England was pretty good, I spent the weekend at my uncles place in Bedfordshire, felt like I was back home, proper food (cooked not microwaved), presents under the Christmas tree, good people and much laughter. It was nice catching up with my cousins, they’re pretty much still the same, just ‘more’ of what they were, if that explains anything? I mean they were exactly like they were back home, just newer updated versions of themselves; I’m not making any sense now.

On the 23rd I went out with a few friends from work, they said they were going to a club in Soho and asked if I wanted to join, so naturally I agreed. Upon arriving in Soho and following directions without being given the name of the place, I was greeted with a bright pink neon ‘Escape’, guess what kind of bar it was? It was all good fun though, something to tick off on that list of ‘things to do’ that was never really on it. I recommend everyone go to a gay bar at least once in their lifetime.

Basically Christmas was good, new years wasn’t too bad either, went over to Nico’s, had lots of Castle lager (well not that much really) and watched Goodfellas, one of my favourite movies, before watching the fireworks display on the London eye. My week off was good, relaxed a lot, watched lots of DVD’s, played lots of Xbox, and avoided the rush of the January sales.