Settling back into London after four months in Calgary, and what seemed like shortly before that, four months in India, I’ve just enjoyed staying in London and calling my apartment my home. Life in London has been great, and other than the overly long commute I’m doing for my current client, it’s been enjoyably busy. Yesterday I caught up with Mike and his wife Vanessa for a catch up over dim sum at one of their favourites, Golden Dragon. I love catching up with these guys as they’re always full of excitement and always up to exciting things.

Last week I went to Jaimee’s birthday event, always a great time and lots of fun people to chat with. This year she had it at The Loft, recently voted in as Time Out’s best bar, very evident from the body-to-body wall of people I had to almost push through to get to her celebration area. Fortunately she had persuaded them to give her some space as they don’t normally take bookings and reserve space for parties (yay Jaimee!). It was also a great time to catch up with a number of people I used to see every now and again and I realised who I hadn’t seen since last year’s birthday party.

Before that, I said farewell to two people, Zac, a former work colleague who’s heading back to Australia for a three month break. The other, Claire, my flat mate who is heading back to York to study law. I know that I’ll see Zac when he gets back, but it will certainly be sad to see Claire leave. I think she’ll have a great time getting back to where she is surrounded by lots of her friends from way back and enjoy the challenge (and time off between classes!) of going back to school.

I went to some farewell drinks of a former colleague, Zac, who’s heading back to Australia for a three month break