On Friday after work last week I met up with Uns on Clapham High Street for a tasty burger at Five Guys for dinner. Since Kitchen 54 now appears to be permanently closed, we're no longer able to pop down the road for a bit of comfort food, and for now it seems Five Guys will have to do as a stand in replacement - just a bit more of a mission to get to!

Saturday was fairly rainy and miserable outside, so after spending the day around the house, we headed out that evening over to Beckenham for dinner at Gav and Jane's new house which we hadn't seen before. As expected, Gav fired up the braai and cooked us some steak and ribs - always a favourite! Then on Sunday we had James around for dinner and we decided to try the wood fired pizza again, which turned out better than last time but still needs a bit more practise to perfect it :)

On Monday I had my last day at Quispacerdco, after being part of that group for just over 7 years, including my time with EarnspacerAway. So definitely a good spell, but also time to move on. Then on Tuesday, I started in Farringdon with WespacerShospacerp, so rather excited about a new start and change! And the excitement wasn't just because we landed up at BrewDog for lunch on day 1... but that certainly helped :)

Then after work on Tuesday I met up with Uns at London Bridge to go up The Shard to try out their new Virtual Reality slide they have there at the moment. You get to sit on a sloped movable platform and wear a VR headset and hurtle along at over 100mph along imaginary open-air tubes that corkscrew around the entire building. The "ride" lasted about two minutes in total and really was amazing and even got the adrenaline pumping. Might try get back there soon enough and attempt the other experience, the Vertigo, which gives the sensation of walking across girders in the sky as the tower is built, also with a VR headset as well as sensors strapped to your legs, but reckon that might get the better of me! Once we were done with the VR, we made our way down and over to Nando's on Clink Street for a bite to eat before heading home.

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Last night I had planned to meet up with Greg, so after work I took a stroll over to Waterloo and then down to Wimbledon where Greg and I met up and thought we'd try The Old Frizzle pub down on The Broadway. We grabbed a bite to eat and a couple of beers there before calling it a night, but good to catch up.

Not too much planned for the weekend, reckon it'll mostly be fairly chilled out around the house and watching a combination of the IAAF World Championships athletics, England vs SA cricket as well as the final of the Super Rugby between the Lions vs Crusaders :)