29 Mar

Say goodbye

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our farewell last night. We gathered a bunch of our London friends together at Shillibeer’s Bar & Grill in North London to catch up and say goodbye.

We asked people to give us one piece of advice and here are some of their pearls of wisdom:

  • Enjoy every moment
  • Don’t drink and ride
  • Remember to wash your hands
  • Deep breaths and count to 69
  • There’s always the option of turning it inside out
  • You’re in this together
  • As soon as you learn, move on
  • Just think of a giant bear hug every time you’re about to cry, scream or throttle each other
  • Talk to everyone, take their advice and enjoy the ride
  • How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

We also asked for one song from each person to make a playlist – it has turned out to be an eclectic collection, enjoy!

Apologies to Miranda, Sejal, Penny, Mike and Saphia for not being able to get your tracks on Spotify. I have added a different song by same artist where poss.

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28 Mar

HAYWAY podcast episode 1

Our first attempt at a podcast, hopefully we get better on the technical side as we go along. This was recorded a couple of weeks ago. Tips and feedback welcome!

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06 Mar

Playing with change

Baden and I are just weeks from leaving and I keep flipping from excitement/fear about the trip we are going to take and the feeling I’m on death row as far as normal life and London are concerned.

Walking or riding around the city looking at things wistfully, taking a ridiculous number of photos of friends with glasses of red wine in their hands and generally exaggerating the amazing qualities of fairly mundane daily activities (own bed, electric toothbrush, grocery delivery – actually those things are genuinely fantastic).

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