This weekend Manchester City were not playing so I had no football which was very boring so I started watching season two of Boardwalk Empire and I only have two episodes left which I plan to watch tonight.

The only interesting story to tell you was last week I walked out of my local takeaway and as I pressed my key to unlock my car unbeknown to me was that someone else had done the same from the takeaway next door. I walked over to what I thought was my car as the lights had flashed and opened the door. Suddenly a man shouted 'OI what you doing?' at which point I realised I had opened his car and was about to climb into his drivers seat.

I quickly replied 'Sorry, wrong car.' and looked up to see my car behind a white van and ran to it without looking back. Thankfully embarrassing tales like this do not happen frequently enough to blog about.

I went around to my friends house on Sunday to see her new Cavalier King Charles called Dexter and he is nothing like the only other Dexter I know who is a serial killer. He is so tiny that his toys are bigger than he is and dragging them to his bed takes all his energy and he looks ready to collapse. When he gets bigger I will introduce him to my nephew as my dog is an oldie and can not handle a 3 year old with enough energy to put Duracell to shame.

I am going to the Parkfield Inn tonight which is the local pub in Whitefield. They are putting on a night with Jonny Jakes, Adam Cole and Marc Cohen who will hopefully be playing some old skool tunes. It is a tickets only event and all have gone so if your reading this and thinking of coming down then stay at home.

As I write this Manchester United have dropped 3 points and it looks like Chelsea will also be dropping three points and Tottenham are drawing and we are not playing till tomorrow so we are top of the league for NYE.

Happy New Year x

I have broken up from work for Christmas and yesterday I decided not to have any caffeine to give my body a chance to recover and I ended up sleeping on and off till 8PM until I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower.

Today is Christmas day in England and it is a bit different from my usual celebrations in Australia where I spend the day on the beach enjoying the start of summer. I can not find my boat I asked Santa for but the lack of chimney at my parents may be the reason for that so I guess he has left it for me in the port.

Merry Christmas day everyone x

I had a surprisingly good birthday yesterday as I do not usually do anything special and instead try and let the day pass without a fuss. Yesterday my mum made dinner and my brother and sister came with my brother in law and my future sister in law and I received a lot of good presents.

I got the new iPhone, oh wait I got that myself but it still counts as it was delivered on Friday. The award for present of the day goes to my brother who presented me with two stunning stainless steel espresso cups in the shape of the Nespresso capsules, it even is in the same colour as the strongest blend of coffee which is Indriya from India.

I fancy getting a few more in some of the other colours to match the other blends of coffee I drink but for now, these two will serve me well.

I should have been in London today watching Chelsea play Manchester City but thanks to Sky who moved the game to Monday I will not be able to go as I have work on Tuesday. I have however treated myself to Monday off work so I can enjoy Sunday night without having to get up at 5.45 in the morning to catch the train to Leeds.

I went to Liverpool last week to see Manchester City and as we arrived at Anfield my dad realised he had left my ticket in Manchester. My brother had to take a picture of it and then thanks to WhatsApp we were able to take the picture to the ticket office and get it reprinted. The game finished 1-1 which was overall the correct result even if we did have to score both of the goals.

Yesterday I went to see Manchester City play Norwich in the freezing cold. I was wrapped up in so many layers that I initially had difficulty sitting down. It was not an easy game as they put the whole team behind the ball and came for the point. They got a consolation goal if that helps :)

The front entrance of Manchester City was very festive yesterday. They had a white Christmas tree outside and covered the front entrance to make it look like it was all iced over and also managed to turn down the heating in the stadium to give that chilly effect.

It was a nice flat but very noisy and there was limited food choices around for me to eat but I presume that is what the kitchen is for. The extractor fans in the bathrooms are like mini aeroplane engines which stay on for over 20 minutes after the light has been switched off and you can hear them from both rooms either side of you.

Yesterday I went to see Manchester City beat Newcastle to stay top of the league and remain the only unbeaten side in the Premiership.

I went to the pub tonight for Halloween and some people in there came in amazing costumes but all I could manage was a mask. I showed it to my nephew on Friday and he burst out crying so I knew it was a winner.

If you have seen the TV show Benidorm when they put nights on in the hotel bar then you can imagine exactly what it was like in there. The music was very cheesy and it was not long before I was back at my friends house having a brew and watching Match of the Day.

I can not remember a game at Old Trafford where I was so relaxed and the time flew with lots of songs and the second was one way traffic. My seat was right at the front of the second tier so all the players celebrated the goals right in front of me which was amazing.

My quote of the day has to go to Mancini who said, You could hear the fans today and we are delighted for them. We're a unit - the players, the staff, the fans - and that is how we roll.

The first half was so boring that my brother and I seemed to enjoy watching the fans making paper aeroplanes out of the banners they left on the seats but thankfully the second half was a drastic improvement to keep our hopes alive of qualifying for the next round.

I came back to Manchester tonight as I am going to start working from here every Thursday and Friday and I am looking forward to getting into my own bed tonight and being able to get more than seven hours sleep before heading down to my brothers office where I will be setting up camp.

The best of this arrangement is surely some home cooking and not having to live on takeaways and eating in hotel rooms and seeing more of my nephew.

I am very impressed so far, apart from getting stuck in the shower this morning as the door came off its runners which made me late for my morning meeting it has been very good.

The rooms all come equipped with an iMac to I thought I would take this opportunity to do a quick blog post. I just had some room service, fish and chips and it was very tasty.