Steve n Jen's UK adventures

UK and European adventures. Read on my pretties, and discover what two stray Aussies can get up to on their travels.......

05 September 2006

August 2006 b

Mon 14 August 2006
Jen's birthday. She worked. Steve took her out for a lovely dinner at The Dove restaurant.

Sat 19 August 2006
Moved in!!!!! Took note of what a "fully furnished" house doesn't have, that we need to buy. Ohmigod the place is FILTHY.... the previous tenants have not cleaned the place, and in fact had not 100% moved all their stuff out of the house just yet. The tenants came back a couple of hours later to clear out the remainder of their stuff (but not clean up darn it). Jen took about 50 photos in and around the property, to document the state of the house.

Above: The view from our bedroom window

Sun 20 August 2006
Shopping! And more shopping! Groceries, a heater, bins and cleaning products, bedding and pillows, blanket, pots n pans, crockery, cutlery, glasses, alarm clock and wall clock, powerboards, and various other bibs'n'bobs. We ended up spending about £150 less than we anticipated.
Hooray for '£-stretcher' stores I say.

Here's a view of Stratford Station. On the left is the Coach terminal, in front is the train and tube station, and the photo is from upstairs in the Shopping centre everyone walks through day and night to get to the rest of Stratford.

Mon 21 August 2006
Carpets got cleaned. Discovered there would be no further cleaning done for us - we will have to clean the place ourselves. Steve discovers that he can get wireless internet access if he stands outside!


Tue 22 August 2006
Steve discovers the toilet is weeping wet stuff under the floor boards. Not happy. Tells real estate agency about it. Decide to put off house-warming party until this can get fixed.

Wed 23 August 2006
Steve celebrates 9 years as a knight in the SCA. For the rest of the week, Steve cleans and organises very useful set-up and investigation of bills, taxes, paperwork stuff etc.

Sat 26 August 2006
Long weekend time! More shopping for house stuff. Jen decides to cut up two AA roadmaps and sticky tape them together - this is now the 'wallpaper' in the guest room, courtesy of white-tac.

Sun 27 August 2006
House cleaning day. Steve and Jen clear out the roof gutters. Steve mops floors and cleans the oven.

Mon 28 August 2006
Bank holiday (public holiday in Australianese) Bought a microwave, telephones and a hairdryer. Had the afternoon off to relax.

Tues 29 August 2006
Steve goes to the local gym to check out prices and deals.

Wed 30 August 2006
Steve spends day with Acacia, in the textile room of the V&A museum, as her photographer. Photographs over 400 pieces of old fabric, for Acacia. Subject of photos - not really Steve's thing, but the company was fantastic! Jen catches up with Acacia, Steve and Acacia's mum for dinner. Jen gets Tim Tams, which will be broken open at our house warming party later. Must introduce the locals to shot gunning Tim Tams with coffee.

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