Mooooving

October was a bit of a wash because I decided to move house... I decided that it wouldn't be stressful and that I would double rent for a month and take it at my leisure.... what the hell was I thinking??

So it was stressful... probably not helped by the two weeks of dogminding in the middle which meant that my belongings were stretched over 3 locations, which meant I had even less idea of where anything was than usual. This time though I could drive myself which made it easier... or possibly encouraged me just to be even less organised. I have, as usual, accumulated so much stuff... I think I took about 5 bootloads of books. Anyway its all moved now, but of course I was down to the wire with it anyway. I'd also forgotten about all the teething problems you have in a new place. It has a leak, and the heating doesn't work and there's some problem with my carparking space due to some other leak.... so we need a plumber, which is quite hard to get as the whole city flooded last week

See these photos

Speaking of which I had a slight near-death experience during the floods myself... well near having hand crushed under car anyway. I was making my way home down a flooded road and stumbled on some roadworks that had become dislodged by the water and fell into moving traffic. It was so close that the wheel brushed my shoulder and face... scary... still alive though and able to type with both hands!!

So back to my new home. I went for a 2 bed, again its slightly out of the city, but it is really nice (apart from the heating and leaking). It has a dishwasher, which does encourage my baking and cooking, and two bathrooms (yes two all for me!) but I can only use one at the moment due to the leaking problem. it's overall much larger than my last place but not much more in terms of rent. It has lots of storage which is really what I needed... I will admit that I do not actually need two bathrooms. One thing I wasn't wild about was it being on the ground floor, but actually having lugged all my stuff down two flights of stairs I was actually quite happy not to have to bring it up any stairs when I got to the other side. I also have a patio - I've never rented somewhere with an outside space before.

On saying that I realise that where I live now is not that well protected in case of a zombie attack....