happy birthday to me

hey all :)
Thanks to everyone who sent emails/cards for my birthday yesterday :) That's the first time I haven't been at home for my birthday, so I was missing a lot of people yesterday :( Larissa took the afternoon off so we could hang out which was really nice of her :), so we went and strolled Kensington High Street & Oxford High Street (went to a discount sports store where I actually bought running shorts and am actually going to go visit Larissa in her gym and get some personal training from her... I think I've gone crazy! hehe). Then Morgan & I, Steve & Larissa, Anecia & Alun all went out for dinner to Zizzi's where we had some nice Italian food, and then went back home to eat the cake that Morgan made me (isn't he the best!) :) You can see his cake in the photo, and mum, thanks for the tulips!!! They're beautiful :)

In other news, Morgan started his job this week. He's quite liking the people there, but has a bit of a challenge ahead of him as he doesn't know much about SharePoint, but he's learning fairly eagerly .. so he doesn't get home till 7pm at nights :( The market here is pretty slow at the moment, but I've been told it should be picking up seeing as the UK financial year is coming up. I have only had 2 interviews a couple weeks ago, and I've got one next week, so hopefully soon I will have something :) Although I am starting to like this no-working thing - gives me time to do other things like shopping and beading ;) And I'm getting Neci into beading also, so we're going to the bead shop tonight.. another convert, hooray!

We haven't found a church to go to yet, so we've just been trialling a different one each sunday. The one we went to last week reminded me a lot of Tivoli, but somehow more traditional! Hopefully we will find something soon.

Also, I registered with all the real estate agents this week so hopefully something will come up soon so we can move out into our own place, with Steve & Ris.

Not much else happening, we hope to do some of the things we're meant to do as tourists in London this weekend, so any suggestions of where to go are welcome :)
Hope everyone is well, love to hear from you - esther