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Moving in
The first thing we do in the new flat is try to figure out what we’re doing with the place for real. What to paint. What to fix. What stuff the previous owner abandoned in the place and thought we’d not notice. What stuff the previous owner was contractually obliged to leave in the place, but didn't. That sort of thing ( Read more... ) -
Buying a flat
That was a bigger gap than I expected to leave. So I left off we'd just had our offer accepted. Then came months of paperwork. To save myself the tedium of recounting it in detail, I'll just summarise ( Read more... ) -
Flat hunting, part 4
When I left off, things had gone a bit downhill. I was recovering from surgery, we'd just walked away from a flat we found acceptable, and my work situation was less than idea ( Read more... ) -
Fit the Third: Flat hunting continues
I left off with me sitting on the sofa convalescing while the rest of London decides it's a bad time to put their home on the market. So not only is there nothing new to see, there's no way I can see it ( Read more... ) -
Flat hunting, part 2
Back track from Part 1 a bit.... The search gets off to a very slow start. First we put off things til we get the agreement in principle (This was around the time I got the Indefinite Leave to Remain, which made the Mortgage guy quite happy. The conversation ended something like this: "oh, one last thing. What's your visa situation?" "Indefinite ( Read more... ) -
Flat hunting, part 1
For the past few years the wifemonster and I have been contemplating buying a flat. We'd both lived in rented accommodation for the majority of our lives, and had come to realise that we'd been staying put in once place for an awful long time. We moved into that flat in 2003 and 1) were bursting at the seams and 2) really wanted to have furniture ( Read more... ) -
Appendix A
The story of how I lost my appendix
This happened ages ago. I wanted to post at the time, but never got the momentum. I post this now so I have some record of what happened before I forget entirely.On November 30th (2009) I'd worked a bit later than usual and was getting the bus home. I was rather hungry since I'd not eaten for some time. It was ( Read more... ) -
Set write permissions to 1
It's been some ages since I wrote to this journal. Four times in the past year. I think it's a combination of all the crap that's gone on, and being a bit of an antisocial curmudgeon. Plus the fact that I want to keep this a public journal and more and more I find life stuff just does not lend itself to public consumption ( Read more... ) -
Doing stuff with flats part 2
Following on from yesterday... What are these home design progammes actually good for ( Read more... ) -
Doing stuff with flats
So, as you may know, I'm trying to buy a flat. And, being the control freak I am, I want to know what I'm getting into. So I've been modelling some of these places to get and idea of what I can do with them. Obviously walking through the real place and taking pictures is a good place to start, but that doesn't really give you a feel of what it will ( Read more... )