Another weekend has come around again. Time is flowing past us at an alarming speed.
We are looking forward to a quiet weekend in.
Our first year here we lived in a tiny one room
studio. With so little space we hardly spent any weekends in. That’s not the
case where we live now, and have lived since March 2011. Now we have a nice
little one bedroom flat on the third floor, with a reasonable sized lounge dine
leading into a little kitchen. In the studio our kitchen consisted of a tiny sink
bench a microwave and a jug, with minute cupboarding. There was a full sized
and fully functioning oven in the main kitchen of the house. That was a bonus
as if I did any ‘smelly’ cooking it didn’t fill up the studio with cooking
odours. The studio was in a converted terraced house and ours was one of seven
within the building. Some of the rooms were very tiny.
The laundry was in a
lean to just outside the back door held a coin operated commercial sized washing
machine and dryer. At about £4 a wash load and £3 a dryer load it wasn’t cheap.
Our rent was the same as we pay here in our one bedroom unit, but included the power
an internet connection. The supermarket was a good 20 minute walk away, a bit
further away than the railway station. Not like here. Supermarket is a mere 5 minutes walk away.
I really like that The man and I get to commute to
and from on workdays. Sharing the journey with my best mate,, what more could I
ask for.
We had a laugh tonight on the way home. Sitting on
the floor of the train was a young couple. Late teenagers by the look of it, Slumped
against each other tucked up under their jackets and sound asleep. We wondered
how long they had been on the train, and had they been going backwards and
forwards on the train all evening.
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