Monday, August 20, 2007
Reinforcements arrive!
Well, after battling to avoid traffic (and being thwarted at almost every attempt to avoid said traffic) we finally arrived in
After having some concerns about parking without a valid permit (dealt with by our lovely host - apparently a Post-It note is enough to deter traffic wardens up here, whereas in London it would merely make them sneer as they issued a £50 fine!), we mooched into the house of our friends oop north.
It's a good sized house for a first home (up north that is, in London a property this size might be considered the pinnacle of your house purchasing life), and although it needs a fair amount of work it's easy to see how good it's going to look once it's all been decorated. The proud homeowners had already made a start, so we rolled up our sleeves and made ourselves useful.
By the end of the evening we'd pretty much finished stripping the wallpaper off in the lounge, and were then able to curl up in big nest of duvets and cushion on the floor with pizza and (thanks to their gorgeously shiny Smeg fridge) cold drinks.
Buying a house: hundreds of thousands of pounds
Relaxing with your friends: priceless
;)
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