Somewhat more sorted

After a week of me disappearing off to work and Mort staying home to sort out various utilities & services, we're mostly settled. I think we only need to find a clothes dryer (since we don't have a private yard to hang clothes in) and a bed (although the air mattress we've borrowed is the best one I've ever come across).

Here's a pic of the outside of our place - there are two identical L-shaped units, we're the top one.



We ran into the owner of the place and her son last weekend while we were moving in (via bus). They were kind enough to drive us back to the hostel on campus to pick up the rest of our gear and bring it back, which was really lovely and saved us quite a few bike-rides.

Needless to say, we wasted no time in setting up the kitchen with the essentials (Marmite, a kettle, knives, beer). I think once we have a couple more pots and some corningware we should be mostly done with the hardware, although it'll take a lot longer to collect the food-stock.




The thing that really bothers me about the scrubbing brush in the above photo is that the handle isn't colour-fast. If you get it wet, it makes your hand red and leaves drops of pink everywhere. Hopefully it'll wear off, or we'll find another.

We got our first real teapot, it's not too bad, either. Probably not the perfect teapot, but it'll do. The teashops here have a reasonable amount of awesome, and the owners have the good grace to concede that British-style stainless steel teapots are far better than anything available here.



We had to submit to an upright vacuum cleaner - seems that the "normal" canister style is not what people use here. When I was talking (complaining) to someone about it, she exclaimed, "Oooh, you want one of those vacuum cleaners from the '50s!"

Yes. Yes I do.


Outside of the house, the birds here like to tease cats that are behind fences, just like at home.