Empty new house I can’t look more depressing than it does now can it? It will only get better from now on. At least it is stripped if any sign of previous inhabitants now, ready to be built up again. The old laminate floor has now been completely removed too. And I have the plastic [...]

Making a place your home needs a lot of: Endless trips to the DIY shops Hole filling Red (no really!) Carpet removal Laminate floor removal New floor installation (this will be done for me thank goodness) Wall painting Wall papering Patience Decisions on what colours to put on the walls (any ideas?) Loads of Radio [...]

Digging through my boxes I found these. I can’t come up with any better excuse for having four (four!) pairs of 3D  specs then that the model reminds me of a certain funky long legged man. This is why I have too much stuff: I absolutely lack common sense and I still haven’t grown up. [...]

Moving house … I told you I was going to move right? And that one of my flatmates was going to be Angus, the 39 y.o. friendly Kiwi. Well that still is the case. I have packed more than half of my things in boxes, booked a removal company and sent out the first change-of-address [...]

It is mostly me who is surprised I think. Short version: I have found a great room in a fantastic flat where I will share with a very friendly male kiwi (I call him Angus) and a third person who still has to be found.

Packing boxes is not the hardest part of moving to another country. It is the administrative hassle around it. I wanted to order a UK mobilephone number, as one of the first things. And easymobile got recommened by the Danes-in-London group on yahoo. So I decided to sign up there. And I knew they needed [...]