My New Home

Obviously world's worst blogger. Two weeks since last blog post. Think it was the unbearably long photo upload times the last time i did this. Might explore other photo options. Might just go back to photo-blogging on my Facebook albums like i always have. Hmm.

Anyway.

Let me tell you about my new home. Which, now that i've been here a week, feels like a home.

- I found this house because Anna's friend Ros (who met me at the airport and also hung out with Anna, Adam and i in Windsor) heard that a friend of hers, Pamela, was in sudden need of a new housemate when one of the girls who was living here decided to move out the week before the lease was due to be renewed. I viewed the house on Monday 7 November, and after waiting anxiously for a couple of days, they offered me the place. I moved in on Sunday 13th.

- I bought a blanket on my first night here and spent the first two nights wrapped in it as i slept, lying on an otherwise bare mattress. Did not get a chance to buy bedding until mid-week, but i bought sheets, a duvet, duvet cover, everything. Now i have a nice proper (and warm!) bed to sleep in. Although 100% cotton sheets are something of a luxury here... these polyester things are going to take some getting used to.

- Each day i have wandered to the shops and bought bits and pieces that i have needed. There are a few second-hand stores on Walworth Road, the main road around the corner. I got a bedside lamp for 2 pounds! I've bought random food items, a rack to hang stuff on the back of the door, bits and pieces.

- I finally got around to emptying my suitcase (which i'd been still living out of, although i'd hung a few items in the wardrobe) and putting it in the corner. I've put up the few display items that i brought with me, and printed out a bunch of photos to hang up. I created two photo displays out of string and tiny pegs (i purchased them as Christmas card display thingys, but fuck Christmas). Now i am surrounded by the smiling faces of my friends and family, which makes me happy.





- There's a lot of roadworks going on on my street and surrounding streets. There are signs up saying that the 100-year-old water pipes are being steadily replaced. 100 years old! Can you imagine! I wonder how old my house is.

- My bedroom is on the ground floor and has a door out to the backyard (instead of a window). There's another bedroom on the ground floor - the front room, formerly the living room, occupied by Daisy. The kitchen is also on the ground floor, spacious and modern. On the first floor are Pamela and Yasmine, plus a lovely refurbished bathroom. And above that is Sophie, who has the attic. They're all lovely, actresses and waitresses and hostesses, working different shifts so i actually don't see them often.

- Across the road from my place is what looks like an old pub, but it is not operating as such. Sigh. There's also a park. There's a market up the road that happens every weekend, and a primary school around the corner named after Robert Browning. I'm also a seven-minute walk from the Elephant and Castle tube station, and a ten-minute tube ride from the centre of London.





So there you go. That's my cool new house, and neighbourhood. Now i just need a job so i can afford to live here.