Sunday 7 January 2007

Over a week

How the hell it can be the 7th of January already I have no idea. We've been in Sydney for over a week now and time's flown by. Not that we've actually *done* that much since we've been here, but the seemingly never-ending social commitments have conspired not only to keep us active but also to steal many morning hours. This time next week we'll be having our second breakfast in Hong Kong and two weeks from now we'll have been back in UKLand for 4 days. Sigh.

Everyone in Australia thinks I'm older than Hoopy. It was bad enough in Melbourne when I kept getting my beer served in a Jug (Hoopy always getting a straight glass), but the icing on the cake was last night when Giles announced that had he not been told otherwise, he would have said I was the older. Sigh. Oh well, at least I'll get people giving up their seats on the bus for me before too long.

Thursday night with Sue & Bob Barter was fun, as was Friday's show at the Opera House. We didn't do very much yesterday other than shopping (we're obviously getting very in touch with our feminine sides) and an entire loop of the city on the monorail. Ended up down at the waterside pub (again) down in Darling Harbour about 19:30 where followed the continual supply and consumption of various beverages for many hours. I ducked out about 01:30 - Hoopy & Gilesleft at 02:30, with Giles heading off to bed and Hoops back to Cheers bar to watch the Liverpool-Arsenal FA cup game. He got in about 07:00, announced he felt wide awake then promptly crashed and was still driving them home when I left the hotel a couple of hours ago. No doubt he'll wake up at some point today. He's bound to be in a bad mood mind you, apparently Arsenal won 3-1. Which will make the real Ian Chandler very happy indeed.


Nothing else to report, so time for some photos from New Year's Eve, two of which, obviously, are just a massive ego trip for Hoopy:



A couple from dinner with Sue & Bob:


And finally a couple to prove to Chandler that we really aren't in a hotel in Bognor:







3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi to you both, giles here. matt, you should have put a bet on you said it would be 3-1 to arsenal!!!!
I've had a look and the petronas towers are.............wait for it....................450metres.
Looks like me and you matt were bigging it up a bit.
Catch you later.

Unknown said...

Bloody Hell Mat! You look very scary in that photo, and at least ten years older than Hoopy, good job I've seen the photo, cause i wouldn't know it was you when we get to Hong Kong!!
Looking forward to seeing you both, only a few more days.
xxxxxxxxxx

Anonymous said...

Hi Boys ok I give in your not in Bognor the give a way was the the Girls in the photo with hoops you dont get that age of women in Bognor add on 50 years. Yes was in text contact with hoops at the weekend with the mighty Arsenal's 3-1 win he was not that happy. Ali called in yesterday jules has given her a a list of items if you can get it in Hong Kong

Have a good one boys Im of to Dubai on Wednesday for 5 days

cheers

The real Ian Chandler