The Soccer All Blacks
July 15th, 2005 by Sarah KingI have a friend from my time in London staying, which is really nice. She brought my son the new Chelsea Football away shirt and while he’s a soccer fiend at WSAFC he has some work to do.
He’s going around telling everyone he has a “Soccer All Blacks” shirt – and you have to see his point! He does however, get confused about cities and countries and loyalty – as 6 year olds tend to.
Ref:
- The official All Blacks website
They’re not afraid!
July 13th, 2005 by Sarah Kingand quite right too! Stand tall London!
Visit We’re not afraid for an amazing community posting their artwork. I’ll add 3 of the best later but don’t want to link through as their servers are flat out.
London Explosions
July 8th, 2005 by Sarah KingLike many New Zealanders I was up late last night trying to contact family in London. Because it’s the busy summer season the city is teeming with tourists so a larger number of countries are pulled into the drama. Both my sisters are there right now. One lives there with her husband, the other is visiting with her family. My husband’s sister is there with her family. And they all have other friends who are there at the same time.
When I lived in London bomb scares and disruption were normal. You coped, you walked the miles to get from A-B etc. And when the IRA weren’t doing it the infrastructure would fail and you’d be no better off. Read the rest of this entry »
Brick Lane
December 5th, 2004 by Sarah KingBrick Lane
When I lived in London, as all Kiwis do at some stage, I had friends living in squats in the estates she describes, I sold pharmaceuticals to Doctors just like the one in the book, and I lived, for a year, in Wembley which was dominated by “Asians”.
It’s funny, because in NZ Asians come from China, Korea and Thailand while Indians come from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. In the UK Asians come from the subcontinent and Orientals come from China etc. Most people in both nations make little effort to distinguish any further.
It was fabulous reading the book, telling the London story from the other side. I knew the landscape, the people but I was also being offered a rare glimpse inside.
Thank you Monica, for writing Brick Lane
