locationthe last 10 blog posts by kaptain
jun 01 2006
Hey Y'all
Hello from a very hot and humid usa! Been having an absolute ball here - starting with a wedding in New York state and road tripping around the east coast. Arrived in New York last Wednesday and had quite a large one... hadn't seen katie in four years, so there was a load of catching up to do. On thursday we travelled up to the finger lakes where the wedding was being held. there where 14 of us staying in a lake house, so as you can imagine, there was a load of drinking and very little sleeping!! Oh, and you can buy kegs here!! We had a few of those down in the basement.... which was very handy!! The wedding was on Saturday and it was beautiful! The reception was on a vineyard, so yeah... we had our fair share of wine!! on sunday I said goodbye to all the fantastic people i met at the wedding and few back to new york to start a bit of an american road trip. WE had two nights in new york (and managed to get tickets to a baseball game!) one in Phili - where it is impossible not to run up the rocky stairs! - and where Jon had a bit of an accident and drove into the back of a very aggresive american!! Hahah!! and last night we spent the night with friends in Baltimore. We are off to washington dc today, altantic city tomorrow and I fly back to london on Saturday - back to the real world of work. Will write again soon friends! K xmay 08 2006
Found Nemo!!!
Hello!! It has been a while I admit, but like Nix, I was trying to log in using the old link... without much luck!! All's good now though!! So, just returned from a fantastic week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Diving was amazing! We arranged a three-day dive trip with three days on a boat, two dives a day and lunch... saw rays, eels, a couple of wrecks and even found Nemo!! He is living in the Red Sea with all his cousins! Quite a cheaky little fella!! Took an underwater camera, so hopefully the pictures will do the corals and fish justice... will post them if they are deserving!! The evenings where spent chilling on cushioned floors in open-air lounges, drinking cocktails and smoking shisha's and the days that weren't spent diving where spent at the hotel pool, drinking more cocktails at the sunken bars and topping up my tan, shopping along the promenade.... or snorkelling at the private Hilton beach!! Ahhhhh - the life!!! Was welcomed back to the uk with cloud and rain, but was determined to wear my short sleeved shirt to show off new golden colour!! Back to reality, back to work in office.... K xmar 06 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday Nicky!! Hope you have a wonderful day back in Sunny South Africa - believe it is a scorcher!! 40 degrees... wonderful!! Will try to call later, Love to all K xfeb 15 2006
Happy Valentines Day!
Hello all! hope you had a good valenines day - i spent the evening in soho with a few girly mates... bottles of wine, pizza and throwing bar snacks at happy couples!! i did recieve a bouquet of a dozen red roses though, from a 'secret admirer' - which made my day!! Still really busy at work... and it is only going to get busier as I have decided to do my masters at southbank uni. all sponsered by the company, but will tie me down til 2010 which is the only unfortunate thing. I will be back in cape town for frequent visits though!!! other than that, no juicy news from here at all... enjoy having nix over at the end of the month - wish i was going too, but that will have to wait til september. love and hugs, k xJan 03 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Well, this is the third time I am attempting this.... i have been unsuccessful at posting a blog recently (and I am easily confused!!) So, here it goes again!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I trust you all had a wonderful christmas spent with loved ones and a fantastic, manic new year!! Hope you can look back on 2005 with fond memories and look forward to a successful, exciting 2006!! I can honestly say that i had a great 2005 (apart from a few incedents along the way.... 7/7 pops to mind!) with wonderful travel and holiday experiences. I didn't make it home unfortunately, but the plan is to be back at the end of September for my boets 21st. Enjoy the year!!!! K xxnov 22 2005
Brrrrrr
Hello!! Well, I would ask the question why is ed not blogging either????? I have no reasonably believable excuse for not blogging.... I have however been reading your posts sarah (as I'm sure many others are!), so the site is not a 'white elephant'!! Winter has arrived in all her force and glory and we are struggling into the odd 6 or 7 degree days and subzero nights. brrrrrrrrrrrrr!! At least the skies are blue and the sun is shining - for now. Snow is predicted for later in the week! Had a great week end away in Bath with Moller (aka taxi driver!), Nix and Adriana (who tried hard.... and came close... to getting us kicked out of the hotel!!!) it really was freezing, but festive! Girls - we will have to organise another road-trip early next year!!! perhaps nix, you can post the pics???? Have a busy few weeks to the run-up to christmas (or is "sprint-up" to christmas a better way to put it???) As always, there are a few work christmas parties to look forward to, off to germany next week end, then to vienna mid december and to scotland for christams. Nix is going to paris this week end (watch out for the burning cars!!!) and is on holiday for the next few weeks. Other than that, not much to report back on. Hope all of you in wonderful cape town enjoy the sun sea and warmth and send love and hugs to all!!! K xxx Oh, Mel... if you read this, I believe you bumped into my sister last week end!! If you see her again, give her a hug from me!!!!!sep 22 2005
Hi!
Hi all! One more day here at work before Nix and I are off to the Algarve for some sun, sea and cocktails! Work has been really hectic lately, so really looking forward to a break! Thanks to all who sent birthday wishes and texts... I had a great week (yes, I celebrated for a week! One day just ain't enough!) Was taken for a three course lunch on a floating restaurant down the thames, had a helicopter flying lesson (one hour down, another fourty three for my license!), received jewellery and perfume and my mum arrived from sa! Really spoilt.... I L o v e birthdays!! Well my lovlies, I'm off to a work do now for yet more wine, so will get in touch after the hols! K xaug 25 2005
Update...
Hello all! Hope this blog finds you all well and happy! Not too much has happened since my last entry... although I did have a week in Europe which was great! Managed to get to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in a week of rushed, frantic touring (in between the required long relaxing coffee breaks in picturesque village squares!!!) Went to a fesitval at the beginning of the month, the 'big chill'. Fantastic! It really does have to be experienced to appreciate! Three days of great music, sunshine, camping and great company... all set in a deer park. Going to another one-dayer this week end on Clapham Common with Nix and a few others... the weather has been shite, so hope that it improves before then!!! Work has been ok - although they are still on my back to do my masters. Not that keen on any further study (unless it is day-release!), so still trying to dodge that!! Otherwise, they are keeping me busy.... and still generously funding an all-too-frequent social scene! (no complaints there!) So, when is dd expected in the uk?? Hope that I will see you this time!!! If you are aound on the weekend of the 10th September, I will be celebrating my'verjaarsdag' (venue still to be confirmed) and would be great to have you there.... In fact - all you bloggers in London are more than welcome to join in a few social bevvies!! That's the news from here - hope to read all your news soon! Nix and myself are planning a little girlie summer hoilday at the end of next month... Portugal, or perhaps Spain... so will no doubt have more news for you then!!! Cheeerio, K xjul 12 2005
Too Close for comfort
Hey all... What a hectic couple of days - from the jovial celebrations of London winning the 2012 olympic games, the horrific events of 7/7.... wankers!!! I was already safely in the office when we heard about the underground bombs. We where naturally all shocked, but about an hour later, there was a huge thunderous noice, our building shook... smoke everywhere... horrible burning smell...... the no30 bus had just exploded outside our office! When they called for all first aiders to report to the ground floor, nothing could have prepared me for what I saw - people staggering in, clothes literally blown off them, bloodied and screaming. I helped two women who had been on the bus at the time of the explosion - one, a 21 yr old student whose face was &*^%ed to put it lightly, the other a mother of four - also with bad head wounds. It took ages for the emergancy services to arrive as they where busy with the other three bombs and tending to the more seriously injured who couldn't get away from the bus, so we where sat there with these poor people for what seemed like ages! Glad to say that no one in our office was injured in the bombs, but a few came close - bringing grown men to tears. Our office opened today for the first time since Thursday as it was (and still is) under police investigation. Today - as if we where not on edge enough - the building was evacuated due to 'intelligent' information. (To look on the bright side, it was at lunch time, and we spent the three hours down at the pub!) The way London has picked itself up is amazing and everyone is back on the tube and buses and pulling the finger to all involved in the bombings! I say it again.... wankers! *&%$ing cowerdly bastards who deserve all that is coming to them!!!!!! Lovies to all K xxjul 05 2005