bye bye london...

And, so the countdown begins. I'm home on the 13th December guys, you can contact me on my old mobile number.

Till then...x

busy little bees

Hiya everyone!

How is everything back home? Warming up nicely in preparation for a perfect summer I hope.

With only weeks left, I'm determined to pack as much as possible into my time here, if I haven't already been doing that.

We've had a couple of good parties, for Bindle's 30th and David's 40th. I took Lyndon to see Xavier Rudd at The Shepherd's Bush Empire with my good friend Mel. Then, last weekend Lyndon took me to Oslo, Norway to find some vikings, or at least the Musuem. I wish we had more time to leave the city and explore the Fiords & countryside, but Scandinavia really deserves more than just a week or two, or, a weekend for that matter.

Tomorrow night we're seeing Zero 7 play at the Brixton Academy with Dan, then Sunday we're getting a few friends together to say farewell to Lyndon before he heads home on Monday.

Still not sure of an exact date for my return home, but it's definitely in time for Christmas.

See you very soon.

P.S. Don't worry, I'm not coming home with a geezer accent either.
P.P.S. The real reason for my return is cause I can't get a good Beam and coke anywhere...

Expect the unexpected

Hello everyone!

Mum and I had brilliant trip around Europe for nearly 3 weeks, although I forgot how exhausting traveling and sight seeing are! Seriously, I'm SO over big buildings and cathedrals right now, give me coastlines and landscapes anyday. I won't go into all the details now, but totally loved Barcelona, and Paris really is so romantic and beautiful, more so than I remembered.

The unexpected and very exciting news is that I'm coming home in December for good, that's right, in two months time! Lordy lordy, I can not wait! Basically, an opportunity came up at Cowan Sydney and the business is just as happy for me to be there, so I couldn't resist. I'm not loving London life, although I've been having loads of fun, it's just not working for me on lots of levels. Anyway, I haven't got a date for my return yet, still waiting to confirm things over the next week. Very excited to be coming home for Summer, loving my timing. Can't wait for lots of barbies and beach with you all.

Lyndon is here for another few weeks helping me organise my life - again, so we've got a busy schedule getting out and about doing all the stuff we want to before heading home. Last weekend we went away to Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace, a very pretty english town), we've been to the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, last night we went to see the Shaolin Kung-Fu Monks, and there are concerts planned and another weekend away hopefully.

I hope you're all doing well, there's certainly been plenty of baby and engagement news from OZ of late. Looking forward to seeing you all again soon and meeting the new additions.

Love, Carly. xxx

And the girl from OZ said, Speak to us of Summer...

And he answered: There is no such season in London my child.

Yes, it is all over I'm afraid. We're back down to around the 20 degree mark, so it lasted a whole 2 months - rrrrubish!

It's been a crazy whirlwind August for me. It started well with the Fruitstock Festival in Regents Park, another free outdoor Summer Festival with lots of great music and atmos. Ginny, Scott and I hung out and drank lots of Pimms and vodka on our picnic sarong, ending the night with dancing and singing our little hearts out to Arrested Development. They were unreal, took me right back, and of course they sung Mr Wendal to keep us all happy.








Then Dan, Ginny, Mel, I and a few others all went to see Xavier Rudd and Michael Franti with Spearhead play at the Carling Academy in Brixton. It was a brilliant night, lots and lots of aussies there to support gorgeous Xavier, we had an awesome night in a great great venue.

I caught up with Cliffy (Paul Chapman's dad) and his family for a picnic the next day up in Enfield, was nice to get out of London and meet some quality english folk. Funny to be meeting his family 9 years after we've broken up, the introductions as to who I was were interesting to say the least.

Then on Monday the 14th, I received one of those dreaded calls from home to be told that Shirley, who has been like a grandmother to me, passed away unexpectedly. The following night I was on a plane home for the funeral. I was only home for 6 days and had some very quiet family time. The sun shone for those days though, the weather was really beautiful. I got plenty of those much needed swims in down at Newport Beach, and hung out with my Monkey, Mol-girl and Mum.

So, I'm back home now and it's a long weekend thankfully, there's been lots of sleeping this weekend to catch up with myself.

Today Dan and I headed down to the Notting Hill Carnival for the day, it was like nothing I've ever seen in my life. It's a Caribbean festival that has been held on every August bank holiday weekend since 1966. I'll leave you with the photo's.






Mum is here next week and we've got 4 days in London seeing the sights before heading to Paris and Spain.

Will be in-touch with you all again soon.

Carly. xxx