Life in Edinburgh

Hi there! Well so far all our posts have been about places we've been, but it's time you all heard what we've been up to when we haven't been doing cool stuff. Yeah I'm talking about work ;-)

We've both got jobs and have been working for a few weeks. We've even both been paid now! Sylvia is working at Enviros, an environmental consultancy in Leith. I'm working at Scott Wilson, which is another international consultancy based in the UK. Both of them are quite large companies with offices all over the UK and a variety of work so we shouldn't be bored. I've found things a little slow to start off with (lots of reading semi-revelant documents and time put down to the "admin" code) but I have no doubt that I'll be busy soon enough.

Sylvia even gets a car with her job. We hadn't planned on getting a car (at least not straight away) but she'll need one lots for work so it's more convenient to have her own. It seems to be taking a while, at first I thought that maybe they had to make it once she placed her order, but now I think they are probably mining all the raw materials for it too. The funny thing is, the more senior you are, the more carbon emissions you are allowed to produce, and this is a restriction on the types of car you can get. Yep, the more senior you are in this environmental consultancy, the more you can pollute?!?

Edinburgh is still fun - we've caught up with a couple of friends from Christchurch lately. Isla was (is) in Scotland visiting her family (really trying to find a scotsman) and Chris was over here competing in (and winning) the world adventure racing champs!

The days are getting ever longer and it is weird coming out of a pub at 10 pm and it's still bright outside. There have been cool days but not much rain, and some real stunners too. We visited Glasgow during one of these and climbed our first munro - perhaps this will be a future blog with some photos.

A couple of weeks ago we took part in a one-day touch tournament with ad-hoc teams at Murrayfield Stadium, the home of Edinburgh Rugby. It was the same weekend as the Edinburgh Sevens, so we got to go along to that as well and see NZ kick some butt. Sylvia's touch team even came second so she got a medal presented to her by the Scottish rugby captain! Shame she wasn't paying attention and didn't realise this, and didn't get a kiss like some of the other girls...perhaps she didn't look star-struck enough.