Week 47 in London

Week 47: 22 - 28 February 2016

This week was a fairly straight forward working week, with the most important news coming late in the week; that Roslyn’s contract position had been extended beyond 30 June. Therefore, we won’t be completely broke and have to be deported home – yay!

While out for work and walking around the streets of Chelsea, Brendan celeb-spotted fashion designer and star of Made in Chelsea, Oliver Proudlock, straight from the final day of London Fashion Week.

We also had confirmation earlier this week that Mark and Lauren have booked a trip to come and visit in June.

For breakfast on Friday, Roslyn had an event on the Cutty Sark, a ship built in 1869 designed to carry tea from China to England as fast as possible. During the late 1800s, she was responsible for transporting wool from Australia. Fast forward to modern times and the restoration of the ship was unveiled in 2012, now raised three metres above the ground and a tourist attraction as part of the Royal Museums of Greenwich. Vegemite even made an appearance on the menu at this breakfast.

As the concept of “sharing” becomes increasingly popular, we had also booked a car through easyCar Club (part of the easyGroup) to head off to Wales for the weekend. The easyCar Club is essentially like Airbnb for cars, an owner puts their car online and nominates the days that they don’t need it and the price, and you book from there. As a booking driver, you have to be run through checks and screening by easyCar, and the booking of a vehicle through easyCar Club also provides full insurance over the driver. All in all, it works out significantly cheaper than a conventional hire car.

The week prior we had booked a Peugeot for the weekend of 27-28 February, sorted our accommodation and had everything lined up. Our plans almost came unstuck after the Peugeot was pranged, rendering it unable to be hired and leaving the driver in hospital. Fortunately we found a Fiat owned by a guy only five minutes from our house, and so locked it in. Disaster avoided!

Highlights for the week:

- Roslyn’s work contract extended

- Sighting of Made in Chelsea’s Oliver Proudlock

- Confirmation of Mark and Lauren coming to visit

- Roslyn’s breakfast onboard the Cutty Sark, featuring Vegemite

- Hired our first easyCar