Just sat down after a lazy Sunday, the first in a long series, in the new house. Last weekend (as you know) was hard, moving boxes/furniture for 48 hours, and yesterday was much the same (possibly even longer) after a trek to the rubbish tip, a trip to Ikea (in Essex of all places), and 6+ hours of moving & driving, and of course another trip to McDonalds (my second in two weeks, and also in almost a year). However, today has been laid back, all we’ve done is eat, drink (lots), do the shopping and pick up the rent deposit checkcheque (damnit, I’m oozing American) from the old house.

It’s the best feeling, sitting here with a cheque in my wallet for the full amount of the initial security bond, a huge relief too as it covers almost two thirds of this months rent at the new house which is awesome, as I wasn’t looking forward to having to raise the money for rent from my pay alone. This was a good thing, as there was a fair few marks on the walls that definitely weren’t there when we first moved in. But it got me thinking, who gives the full security bond amount back before properly checking state of said apartment? But really, it wasn’t all that bad, but I had expected to lose £150 or so for painting!

We’ve been in Twickenham for over a week now, and its been great so far, though I’m still getting used to having so many locals and not having to travel or walk more than 10 minutes to get to one. I know it hasn’t been long and we can’t expect to know the area back to front just yet, but I’m still finding little chestnuts around the place that make the new hood even more excellent, like this:

The Ingenuity of some astounds me

Now I’ve just got to try and make sure the house is presentable so we can get as much of the deposit back as possible.  There’s a couple of patches on the walls that are looking a little bit off which may cause us problems though (shoddy paint, I’m sure of it),  but I’ll do best with a can of touch up paint.

But its all for a good cause, and that’s the new house!  Bring it on!