From the other side of the world

Catching up on a backlog of emails............

Delighted to see one from Mark (London Region sec) not Mark (slave driver) - on his travels. 'If it's Thursday, this must be Auckland'... He's moved on from USA and is now in New Zealand

Fancy he's on the other side of the world and he's reading my blog!

"Susanne, Babel Fish? Interesting...Kia ora (welcome) to New Zealand. I got in about 90 minutes ago but my luggage is still in Melbourne (probably wanted to catch an Aussie Rules game...).The trip is going well so far, managed some shopping, a brewery tour (how Australian is that?) and a close encounter with a wombat (just about the only Australian animal that isn't poisonous or plain vicious as far as I can tell). So much more to do though, so little time... Keep up the blog though, it's a great way for me to keep in touch with the world. Mark"

How exciting and he wants news from London. Today of all days there's nothing on the News except football. Liverpool seems to be at a standstill. Sad state of affairs that all the UK news channels have nothing better to report on, hour by hour - but I suppose it has been 20 years since they last won (not something I knew but I've just been told). Good for all the Liverpool football supporters - not my cup of tea (I hate football) but as they say 'different strokes for different folks'.

Most ridiculous that some kind of stupid rule means that Liverpool can't defend the title next year. I'll bet my bottom dollar that somehow the rules will be changed or somebody will come up with something.............

Off to Valerie's (London Reg. President) leaving do. She's moving to France - it's really a leaving UK leaving do. A marvellous idea and as she says it's so easy now to cross the channel so nothing really changes.