The Big Move

Friday

 Friday came at the end of an exceptionally busy week. I honestly never thought it would have been possible to completely move my entire life in less than 2 weeks...

 From getting the call on Tuesday 27th March it took until Saturday to arrange a bunch of viewings for a new place to live, by Sunday one had been picked, by the following Tuesday I'd completed my last shift at Tesco and had most of my flat completely packed. Wednesday brought a trip to my new home to put down a deposit and collect my key and by Friday 6th April I had moved.

After a bit of a teary wave goodbye to my mum and Kate I went back to my new room and started unpacking. Before I managed to get much done Ellie, my lady, arrived which helped stabalise my emotions!

After a quick cuppa with Ellies mum we got back to unpacking, with two of us at it it did not take long at all and by about 5ish everything except my computer was set up. After a quick spot of dinner it was off for my first London adventure!

A friend of Ellies, Finn, was playing a gig at a pub called the Enterprise at Chalk Farm, just a couple of tube stops from my new place so we went and checked that out.

On the way there we passed a set of flats, I had to stop and take a picture, its not often you find a whole building named after the lead singer from Jairus!

 Turns out it wasn't just Finn playing on her own, a lovely chap called Max joined her on Bass and had programmed a load of drum loops and beats on a macbook. Made for a really interesting and quirky set. Found this on youtube to give you a sample of what they do, althought this is a completely different version how they sounded on the night!

Anyways, after the set there were many a drink drunk and then we toddled back down to my new flat stopping only to buy some nub nub for the morning!

Saturday

 

After waking up with a mild hangover and eating some very nice bacon muffins Ellie and I caught a train over to Richmond and we did another whole bunch of walking this time Ellie leading me on a tour of all the important points of "Twickers" (funnily enough one of the last places we went to were selling *This Tea Towel* which detailed all the points of my tour!)

The Naked Ladies of York House Gardens

After completing the tour and grabbing some lunch at a little cafe that Ellie used to go to when she was at school we pottered down to the Twickenham Rowing Club to watch the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Now as I'm sure you already know I'm not massively interested in sports of any kind, but if you're gonna watch a boat race then a rowing club is definitely the place to do it! All kinds of abuse was being shouted when the idiot protester was nearly knocked out by the oars! However for me the best thing about this point of the day was finding a hand painted picture of Andy Wintie above the bar in the Rowing Club!

After finishing the race we wandered back to Ellies family home and were fed, however by this point my body was starting to fail me. 2 weeks of packing, planning and moving with so little sleep had killed my immune system and I'd started feeling a bit grotty. I wasn't about to let it ruin my night though so after a couple of flu tablets we plowed on, walked back in to Twickenham Town, headed to The Fox and had a few drinks. I was introduced to a few more of Ellies friends and much hilarity ensued! All in all another lovely night (even the quick stop in at KFC on our walk back home!).

 Oh! I did manage to find this lighter left on our table by one of Ellies friends, had to get a picture of it for Robby as I know Panda's are his life!

Sunday

 

Which brings us up to today where I have successfully done as little as possible! After waking up at Ellies and being treated to a lovely cooked breakfast we watched some of the new series of Game of Thrones, lazed around and then ate again before finally catching a train back to Hampstead in the late afternoon! I've set my computer up and finished off the last of my unpacking, Ellie has headed off in to Central to meet up with another bunch of her friends (I just cant take the pace of all this drinking, let alone the expense!).


Here are some pics of my new room

 














Really liking my new home so far, even though I've only stayed here one night at this point! The room feels cosy and I've brought enough stuff with me that it feels like home, but not too much so its cluttered. It is gonna take me a while to get used to the trains, if you take a look at the map you'll see how close it is to the trainlines (about 8 of them) but I've lived next to an ambulance station and Wilco's delivery bay, so how hard can it be to get used to something like trains eh?!

Tomorrow I plan to head in to Central to have an explore and then I'm meeting up with the rest of the Rushes Runners to have a social in Covent Garden, should be a giggle!