Finny P

[shermarama]

Meanwhile, I've moved house. To a new and highly salubrious neighbourhood. Still, nice of the police to come round and clear up the day before I move in. The first meal I've had here was sandwiches made with granary bread from the Happening Bagel Bakery just round the corner, and I have to say, I'm really glad to be living this close to a decent bakery, and particularly one that's open til 11 at night every night of the week.

Almost all of my stuff is still in the basement of the house at Mile End, and when I move out of this place in early May it'll all move again with me. I've brought one box of books and four small CD racks that between them probably represent about a tenth of each of my total stock. About half my clothes, things like almost all the formal stuff, have been left behind, as have two out of the three basses, the desktop computer and the guitar. My stock-cupboard food type stuff takes up an amazing amount of space and I'm not going to use that much more of it here I suppose but I can't quite see what else to do with it, and the handful of things I forgot to bring with me should all have been even more to add to that pile - some pint glasses, some plastic tubs and bowls, washing machine stuff. Anyway, the stereo's up and running, I'm probably two thirds unpacked already, and tomorrow I get to find out how long it takes to get to Euston by bus from here.

Faintly at a loss for what to do, in that odd way you get in an unfamiliar house where you haven't built up habits yet. It's not like there aren't many of the things I used to do in my old house, except talk to my housemates, as well as the rest of the unpacking, and other useful things like scouting out the area and consulting BITE to find the decent pubs. Also there's the usual room owner's stock of books to gawp at, which are 90% about screenwriting, production, editing or some other aspect of film. Also a stack of Disinformation books. This is going to be an interesting diversion, I think.

Comments

Why oh why

[anam-uk.livejournal.com]

isn't the title "crappy rub sniff" ?

Re: Why oh why

[shermarama]

That took me far too long to get. And I'm not going to be able to avoid thinking of it like that now.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

The Happening Bagel Bakery is great!

Um, that's all I got.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

253 to euston should be about 30-40 mins depending on traffic.

[shermarama]

Nice. That's roughly what I was expecting, and is about as long as the tube used to take from Mile End, while being distinctly cheaper.

[editor.livejournal.com]

Not sure what's hip down your end of town, but the World's End on Stroud Green Road is pretty pleasant these days - don't believe what they say, it's been done up quite recently - and the Faltering Fullback on Perth Road is great, but gets rather crowded on account of being great.

[shermarama]

Pub suggestions duly noted. By the way, what with you being a local and everything; where can you top up Oyster cards? I couldn't see any machines at the Station Place end at all, just the windows with huge queues. Are there no machines around?

[editor.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I've barely ever set foot over that end. I come in from the Wells Terrace end, which has three Oyster machines in a fairly small ticket hall. I would certainly expect there to be a couple of machines over on your side of the station as well, but I simply don't know... sorry!

[shermarama]

Well, okay, so that means going to the other end for machines. There are a bunch of machines at the Station Place end but they're all for train tickets.

I made the mistake of agreeing to meet Jon for a pint in Finsbury Park last night while still not having looked up a fixture list for the football. Still, the World's End has a bit you can't see any of the screens from which was almost deserted, so that did the job.

[editor.livejournal.com]

It does indeed. I had my birthday party in that very bit, in fact. But yes, you have moved to a fairly footbally area.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Welcome to N4!

[androktone.livejournal.com]

deathboy is looking for a new drummer, you don't have time in your busy schedule to hook up with him do you?