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LIFE UPDATE: Friday 3rd February 2012

So… I thought it was time for a quick life update!

As everyone and his wife probably now knows, we’ve moved back to my home city of Manchester! :D

We’ve got a gorgeous city centre flat, ten minutes walk away from my work, and opposite from where I used to live before I moved. Very very happy with it, and we’re already looking forward to having friends come to visit.

The past few weeks have been a pretty stressful slog, and it’s great to have come through it on the other side, and to finally be winding down and settling in.

It’s been great fun spending the GDP of a small African country at IKEA and John Lewis, getting all of the new stuff for the apartment, and I think we’ve ended up with it looking awesome! We even spent £80 as a ‘treat’ on an amazing/huge clock!

If you’re interested in seeing the new apartment, I shall be doing an updated ‘video walkthrough’ next week once I’ve got the internet at home to be able to upload the video.

Max really seems to be liking it up here, which is fab, and we’re both incredibly appreciative to anyone who has helped support us during this move, especially Andrew for driving us all over the country in just 24 hours.

I need to start off my CIMA studies again soon, so I’m currently looking at getting all of that scheduled in – again, dependant on the internet at home (I still can’t believe how long it takes to get connected up in this day and age!). Once I complete this first stage (equivalent to a degree), you’ll all totally have to address me as Mr. Gari Davies (CIMA CBA). I will INSIST upon the designatory letters being used! ;) haha!

I’m off work on Monday coming, and I also have a whole week of from Monday 20th February – can’t wait, will be an awesome chance to crash out. If anyone’s about and fancies catching up (or wants to visit already), please drop me an email!

Speaking of work, it is insane just how little has changed since I was last working out of the Manchester office properly – bar a few people changing hair colour/style, it is all exactly the same! It is totally eerie! Very bizarre when you’re talking to someone and continuing conversations from 2007 ha!

Right, enough from me – I’m about on Facebook and Twitter a fair bit at the moment, as I’m forced to cane my 3G mobile internet (constantly with me!) until I get sorted at home and can go back to my iMac, so go on, hit me up folks :)

Thanks for taking an interest!

Gx

A video walk-around of the new Manchester apartment!

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We were given the keys to our new apartment up in Manchester today, and so a rather excited me decided to do as video walk-around for all you nosy folk hehe!

Property came furnished, so nothing that you see is ours. We intend on making some cosmetic changes, and hiding away a lot of the stuff that came with the apartment hehe!

Do bear with me, I am VERY excited in this YouTube, haha!

MOVING ON UP: T-Minus 7

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A daily video blog documenting my last 20 days in London before I move back to Manchester on Saturday 28 January 2012.

Saturday 21st January 2012.

There is also a MUCH better still image coming too once YouTube updates its servers properly ha!

Sorry, in this video, not only did I prattle on with myself, but also YouTube has cut off the bottom of the video, so it hasn’t centred me!

If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening, do please follow my blog (there is a button at the bottom of the page).

Thanks to all for your continued support and interest!

Gari x

MOVING ON UP: T-Minus 16

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A daily video blog documenting my last 20 days in London before I move back to Manchester on Saturday 28 January 2012.

Thursday 12th January 2012.

There is also a MUCH better still image coming too once YouTube updates its servers properly ha!

If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening, do please follow my blog (there is a button at the bottom of the page).

Thanks to all for your continued support and interest!

Gari x

Oh, and ‘Moving On Up’ is my ‘move’ song, in case you’ve not caught this yet :P

MOVING ON UP: T-Minus 18

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A daily video blog documenting my last 20 days in London before I move back to Manchester on Saturday 28 January 2012.

Tuesday 10th January 2012.

If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening, do please follow my blog (there is a button at the bottom of the page).

Thanks to all for your continued support and interest!

Gari x

Oh, and ‘Moving On Up’ is my ‘move’ song, in case you’ve not caught this yet :P

MOVING ON UP: T-Minus 19

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A daily video blog documenting my last 20 days in London before I move back to Manchester on Saturday 28 January 2012.

Monday 9th January 2012.

You will have to forgive my tired ramblings, for it is late and I have giraffe to attend to! There is also a MUCH better still image coming too once YouTube updates it’s servers properly ha!

Promise that it will be less boring as time goes on, and the updates will be far shorter (and I’ll be far less tired/more cheery) heh!

If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening, do please follow my blog (there is a button at the bottom of the page).

Thanks to all for your continued support and interest!

Gari x

Oh, and ‘Moving On Up’ is my ‘move’ song, in case you’ve not caught this yet :P

Gari’s Discs

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For those who were fans of the discs (which have finally left my blog after 4 years and a lot of people protesting to save them, ha!) – you’ll be pleased to hear that on Christmas Day 2011, I went out and took an updated picture of them.

Apologies for Max’s grainy camera work, and my terrible appearance (it was 7am, ha!) I have genuinely never seen my camera take such a bad image, ha!

Here’s the (much much better!) original…  :P

IMAGES: Abandoned City – Manchester, 25 Dec 2011

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As any self-respecting geek does on Christmas Day, I went out at around 9am in my home city of Manchester to snap pictures of the abandoned city!

As you may notice, there are very occasional signs of life dotted around, however the silence that was over the city was nothing short of eerie – we were talking in whispers!

Please click on any image to enlarge, and please do not reproduce images without my prior consent first (which will not be unreasonably with-held, so long as there’s an image credit :) ).

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to all my friends, and readers of this blog!

Last night, we had an awesome roast dinner (thanks Max!) and then went outside to watch the London Fireworks (I am very lucky to live within direct sight / only around a mile away from the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye).

New Year Fireworks in London to ring in 2012! We were stood on a little beach on the Thames near where I live, thanks to low tide, and a dry bank, and had the best view/most magical atmosphere you could ever want – BEST NY EVER!!!! ^_^

Have a fantastic 2012 folks, and remember, it’s only 359 days until Christmas! ^_^