We’re moving house in ten days, and I’m putting my writing habit to good use by drafting a new ad each day until we move to help our landlords advertise some of the unique characteristics of the flat we’ve grown to love over the past five months. Are you someone who loves to know how things […]
Read more "Room for Rent #10 – Easy Access Plumbing"In 10 days we’ll be living in a much larger two bedroom flat with Paul’s cousin Zoe and her boyfriend Daniel in Wandsworth. I’ve been blogging a lot about our travels, but kept rather quiet on everything that’s happened in-between. But that’s not for lack of stories to tell! This place has definitely been memorable […]
Read more "Top 10 Reasons to Move"Lots of people are checking in to make sure we’re ok following all the news footage of the riots in London. Last night I went for a walk near Regents Park and could hear shouting and car alarms as gangs of people ran amok. Before long I heard sirens and everyone dispersed. Besides a few […]
Read more "Riot Time"So today I met Henrietta, the voice of the London Underground. She owes her job to Emma Clarke, the previous voice, who was sacked after making the alternative announcements below. I didn’t know until today that she’s also the voice of NS&I. We had a three hour recording session for a project I’m working on. […]
Read more "Mind the Gap"All antipodeans become insomniacs when they first arrive in London. For most, it gets better after a few days when their jet-lag subsides. But not for me. I couldn’t sleep for a whole other reason. I would rather sleep outside than spend another night on the bony sack of nails our incompetent landlord had the […]
Read more "Life Lesson #27 – One Man’s Trash…"Yesterday I got the bargain of the century. Our room is sorely lacking furniture, and everything is so expensive that I’ve been putting my stuff on the floor beside my bed every night rather than pay £20 for a set of dusty plastic drawers from the variety store to use as a bedside table. I […]
Read more "Life Lesson #26 – Don’t Take Furniture on the Tube"First day of work today. Caught me by surprise really. I had expected my contract to be sorted on Monday, so when my recruiter was still mysteriously “resolving things” on Tuesday I started to worry that something was wrong. I could just imagine the phone call “sorry for the mix-up Mr Allen, we actually wanted […]
Read more "Heigh Ho, Off to Work I Go"