Two Saturday nights and two costume parties! First up was a Great Gatsby Garden party hosted by fellow Chiswickites Bette, Jason and Les. Unfortunately the changeable Melbourne-like weather we’re having ruled the ‘garden’ part out, but the loungeroom provided just as good a backdrop. ‘Twas lots of fun.

And last night we got back to the 80s at a party in honour of Cath’s birthday. It might seem to some of us like an odd way to celebrate our beautiful friend but we think she would have loved it. Ridiculous costumes, drinks flowing and lots of laughs with our good mates.

Yesterday I started a new job working for a consultancy on a project working with Tesco – a very popular supermarket chain over here in the UK and elsewhere.

My first day was pretty cruisey, just ‘get the lay of the land’ kind of stuff but today I had to go out to the client site – a 2 hour commute each way – and was thrown into the thick of it.

Tesco headquarters is a huge campus like complex which accommodates thousands of employees in numerous buildings each with their own canteens, gyms, etc. They even have their own wind turbines to help with their power needs. They are grossly in need of more office space however, as it’s an ‘every man for themselves’ kind of environment when it comes to finding some desk space and a chair. I’ve never seen so many people crammed into every nook and cranny.

Today, I learned a fair bit about the project I will be working on and my initial impressions leave me feeling like I will learn a lot which is fantastic.

I am well over the 4 hour travel time already though. Thank god, I only have to spend about 20% of my time up there (fingers crossed).

Following on from Cath’s post about reminiscing about mario bros I found this version of the theme song played on piano.