Traditional Bank Holiday excitements

[juliet]

i.e. e.g. viz. I have spent much of yesterday & today Doing DIY. Yesterday: cutting up & oiling wood for bookshelves, and buying tiles. Today: extensive painting of woodwork, starting to put up the tiles (with dogrando - it seems easier as a two-person job), & further bookshelf-construction. More of the same is planned for the rest of the long weekend. BUT the Plan is that it will all be over by the time I return to work on Thursday (hurrah for being in academia & having Extra Holiday), so after that no more weekends involving painting.

Despite the DIY, other far more interesting things have also been occurring. Went for dinner on Wednesday night with kitty_goth & ergotia, which was lovely. Poptimism last night was ace - all #1s all the time, oh yes. Many many people I know (or at least know-as-friends-of-someone) there; much dancing; general feeling of bouncy happiness. I like this. It even got dogrando on the dancefloor, for "the two best number ones ever" (i.e. the KLF and, er, the KLF. He does have a point). And I haven't been clubbing in bloody *ages* so it was good to return to the jumping up & down in an overexcitable fashion. I have no shame :-)

Pete has nearly finished cooking dinner (quote as he stirred things: "dipping sauce which contravenes biological weapons treaties, that's what we like"), so I shall finish here. Mmmm food.

Oh, & in other news: verily flickgc rocks most mightily, for she has generously given me a years of paid LJ time! Thank you! xxx

Comments

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I don't understaaaaaaaaand, why is the KLF two songs? Find me a flat please (I still have no offer letter, of course). I'm amazed Poptimism was so good but pleased for everyone who went. I couldn't make an hour of good songs out of number 1s, sad but true.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

One of them was officially by The Timelords.

[juliet]

What's yr budget? www.findaproperty.com may be worth a look (this is the bit covering round near us).

[juliet]

One-bed places in our vicinity:

Cherry Gardens is north of the Jamaica Rd.
In Marden Square!
probably a bit far south

That's just from the first page of results - I must go do more tiling now.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

100 a week plus an extra 20 for each of the following which are available

Sole occupancy
Non-mental other people
Wireless Broadband
Large room / largeness overall
Cats

[juliet]

100 quid a week I think you're looking at sharing, or a lot further out. There's some links above to (single-occupancy) places around here about the 150 quid/week mark (one of 'em's in Marden Square: so cats!); bear in mind that that is likely to be negotiable as I believe the rental market in London is still oversupplied (so always offer less).

If you want flatshare, Loot may be your best bet. We can put you up in the spare room for a bit if you need to, while you're looking for a place. There's also a couple of websites for finding flatmates - try those? (Google; I don't have addresses)

I'd recommend asking on your own LJ - I've never had to look for a shared place in London so don't really know how it works. Plus a good option may be to find friend-of-a-friend who needs a flatmate, as that way you reduce the nutter quotient. (personally if I was in the position of needing to live alone again, I'd cut back on everything else so as to be able to afford my own place rather than sharing; but that's just me).

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I have some plans - we may discuss this in more detail on e-mail on Tuesday? Meanwhile here are places I like, subject to finding a +1 with the same budget and transportish needs as me (yes, I know what they're both like on the outside).

http://movingl.webdadi.biz/details.dtx?propertyid=FE98B440-FB79-40DE-8E17-E785F3A6875B

http://movingl.webdadi.biz/details.dtx?propertyid=B76E8A36-7774-40A0-A1BF-63FB890409AE

[juliet]

Sure, email is good (though am not at work on Tues, am at home building bookshelves etc, so may not be online all the time).

Borough/Elephant & Castle would mean a change on the way to Westminster (at London Bridge), unless you were near enough Borough to walk to LB of a morning. If you want to share, you can find similar-priced places round our way. Warning about Elephant - they've just started a massive renovation plan thingy. Whilst this is a good thing in the long run, right now it means living on a giant building site; and Elephant's noisy & inconvenient for pedestrians at the best of times. (or is that what you meant by knowing what they're like on the outside?)

(We bought our place from MovingSpace. Although from the selling side, not the lettings side, obviously).

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd read about the general principle of the renovation stuff, though I meant more the reasons behind it than anything. If I was in Borough I'd want to be North enough to walk to LB or West enough to walk the whole way, really.

[juliet]

[nods]

Seriously, before considering Elephant, go spend half an hour walking around it. It is, of course, generally sensible to do this anyway; but in this case more so as Elephant really is *monumentally* badly designed if you're anything other than a car. And it's not great if you're a car. So be sure you feel you could deal with the racket & the pollution & the having to cross 3 main roads with bad pedestrian crossings to get from bus stop to tube station - that kind of thing.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

:)

For some reason whenever I'm in Bermondsey and see Kirsty the Elephant Wetherspoons is where she wants to meet. It's not good for walking to and from I agree (and I have done it).

I prefer the other one, to be honest, but we'll see what's available when we have some certainty.

[flick.livejournal.com]

[mwah]

Damn, I could have sworn that I clicked the anonymous button...

Enjoy.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

I saw Pete, but I didn't see you at all Thursday - strange.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I saw you, but only in the distance.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

I was actually quite close to you, only very small.

[juliet]

I was definitely there. Although I don't remember seeing you, either!