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| Red Carpet Queue |
...loads of people who we didn’t find on our celeb-hunt this evening. I’m just
back from the red carpet at the O2 where the Brit Awards were hosted tonight.
Michaela suggested we do it. I went along with it… and OK, I’ll admit it, I
enjoyed it. I spotted Jessie J, Pixie Lott, Fearne and Holly, Plan B (while he was sober), Dizzee Rascal and more...
I’ll apologise if this blog isn’t very well written. I’m watching Coldplay open
the awards and now Florence.. Totes amazeballs.
But for now let’s go way back to Monday last week. I headed to Westminster City
Hall for the first day of my ITIL Foundation course. I was there for 3 days
learning all about IT Service Management stuff and had an exam on the Wednesday
afternoon. I should find out in the next in week or so whether I’ve passed,
fingers crossed!
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On Wednesday evening I headed to Convent Garden to meet
up with Traum and Calla before they headed to see the Lion King. We found an
Old Man Pub, treated ourselves to a few ciders and found the comfy seats
upstairs. I was still knackered from the weekend and so after a good ol’ catch up I headed home
and got straight to sleep ready for the first day in the office of the week and
prepared to face 100+ emails!
Little did I know that at 10am on Thursday morning I’d
get a call from a guy I know, Craig, who works in HR and I met when I went to the careers fair in Loughborough a few months ago… He needed someone to cover
this years interviews of the next intake of grads! And so, just one year on, I
was sat at the other side of the desk as the final 11 applicants were put
through their paces with interviews, presentations, written exercises, group
discussions and an IQ-style test. It was draining (for me!!!). Listening to
their answers, taking notes and thinking of probing questions all at the same
time – tricky! At the end of the day we had a ‘wash-up’ session and final
decisions were made. It was a really useful thing to get some experience of and
quite strange to think that they were discussing me at a similar ‘wash-up’ one
year previous.
On Friday I finally got a chance to catch up with everything I’d missed from
earlier in the week. Alas, that was cut short as I left at 2.30pm to head to
our office over in Southwark for a lecture with speakers from the Deep Tube
Programme, Crossrail project, and the new Fairs & Ticketing wave-and-pay
project. All very interesting, but perhaps a bit too engineery for me – I still
don’t know what a train bogie is…but I know it made me silently giggle ever
time anyone said it. That finished just after 4.30pm and I dashed straight home
to clean and tidy (glamorous, I know) in preparation for the Brennan sister’s
arrival!
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| Rice Balls |
After collecting them from Euston at 10pm, Friday was a
quiet night with a couple of glasses of wine and hearing all the goings on with
the Fam and peeps Up North. On Saturday we headed out all over London!
Greenwich, Stratford, the south bank and the O2. We climbed up to the Royal Observatory and took silly pictures over the Prime Meridian and started the Heat
Tour of London… Yes, that’s right, Jess bought a copy of Heat Magazine and got
lots of pictures in front of famous landmarks…much to Naomi’s horror and my amusement.
Highlights of Saturday included, rice balls, bratwurst, laughing in the face of
pissing down rain and Naomi realising that the Tate Modern wasn’t the gallery
she was thinking of when she insisted it was factored into weekend plans. We
got back to the house fairly knackered but powered through and headed out with
Michaela to Heaven where Cher Lloyd was playing this week…………………………. Thank
Christ we missed her because whilst we were raving upstairs she was miming to
the horrendous song that is Swagger Jagger. Bore off love.
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| Heat Tour hits Tate |
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| Brennan's in Heaven |
Headache. Headachey pain pain headache. And as I jumped
on Jess with my fake, Sunday morning enthusiasm for making the most out of the
weekend, carpe-ing the diem, only living once and generally loving life, I’m
pretty sure she hated me right at that moment… But off we went in time to see Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. It was huge, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people!! We saw the band and had a wander around in the
sunshine and up the Mall as the crowds dispersed. We got coffees, lunch and had
a sit down (as I finally sobered up). We went to Oxford Street and found the
secret little hide away St. Christopher’s Place. After more coffee we decided
that the best plan of action was to find HMV (which turned out to be in Selfridges)
and treat ourselves to DVDs then head home for a PHAT nap before the girls
headed back to Euston for their 9pm train back to Manchester.
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| Tiny Ben |
I had such a good weekend! It was great to see the
sisters and have a laugh and giggle and dance and drink. TOP EFFORT LADIES.
This week I’ve played another netball match, done some more ICSA training and
been to a British Computing Society lecture. I’m also heading to Bath at the weekend for some Fuzzy
Ducks funtimes.
In other news, I've given up 'all things that are traditionally served in a pint glass' for lent. It's going to be a loooong month...
Until next time,
Bren x
Ps, AS IF they cut off Adele’s acceptance speech at the
Brits… RUDE. They were already late for the news, just let the woman say her
thank yous… tut.
Pps, After going to the BCS lecture, I'll be telling you more about this next time... Watch it and be amazed...
Ppps, some more pics from the Heat Tour of London:
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