DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

Well well, it’s been a while, as usual, since I’ve put up and update on how things are going here in London, so, I figure I ought to right that.

Things are going amazingly well here, I’m absolutely loving every minute of it. I can’t believe I’m hear almost four weeks already, time just seems to be zipping by so so fast. I have well and truly settled in now though, there’s been no visitors over for a while, work has settled down, and I’m starting to get my head around all there, and my apartment finally feels like home. I say that because for the first few weeks, I didn’t have it properly kitted out, my fridge seemed to be constantly empty and it just didn’t feel right. Now though, sitting on my sofa having a beer looking out at Canary Wharf and The City in the background seem completely normal. Ok, on occasion, it does still look like a postcard or something, but, that’s to be expected I guess.

I didn’t initially think this would be the case, but, a lot of my work time is going to be spent out in the Docklands, we’ve kit in various data centres out there, so, quite often my commute to work is a 10 minute or less walk from home! So delighted I actually settled on living out in the docklands now. If I need to come to the office, it’s about 25 minutes or so on the DLR and Tube, now bad at all (a 25 minute commute to the office coming from living in Ireland is a joy!).

Something I’ve noticed about moving over here is the amount of building going on everywhere. Again, coming from Dublin where they would build on your foot if you stood still long enough, it’s not entirely unusual, but, I didn’t think that building would be as manic in London, given how established the economy here is. But, in the Docklands especially, but everywhere else in the city also, there seems to be cranes lining the sky. Added to that, everything that is being built is modern and high rise, it’s all really exciting. There are three separate high rise building that I know of at least under construction in Canary Wharf at the moment, and I’m really looking forward to seeing these go up over the coming months and years.

I haven’t quite established a pattern for normal life at the moment, after work usually involves heading to the shop to buy some food, cook that up, clean the apartment, do some washing, watch a DVD and head to bed. That’s not what I moved to London to do, so, over the coming weeks, I’m going to make a concious effort to get out to the gym (it’s a few floors below me in my apt, so, I really don’t have an excuse!), join a hockey club, and get out taking photos. I haven’t even taken my camera out of my bag since I arrived here, so, that definitely needs fixing.

Weekends are going to be more of the same. This weekend is a bank holiday, so, I’ve got rugby with Ciaran lined up for Saturday, watch the Grand Prix on Sunday, followed by Sunday afternoon Rollerblading in Hyde Park, and then Monday the camera is coming up to Notting Hill for the carnival, so, expect some good pics from that hopefully!

Anyways, that’s enough for a mid-afternoon ramble. Hopefully that’s updated people slightly on what’s going on. I know I always say it, but, I do hope to get some more regular posting going on here shortly too. I had my phone line installed the other day, and my broadband is on order, due for install on Wednesday, so, after that I’ll be online in the evening a whole lot more - yay!