July 2006 b

Thu 20 July 2006
Its about this time the Mac gets packed up. Therefore, the blog becomes a bit sketchy here until early September sorry. In the meanwhile Steve uses a laptop lent to him from Matt.

Mon 24 July 2006
Hooray - Jen finally gets the job offer letter!!!!

Tue 25 July 2006
Hired a car, packed up everything and drove to Luton. At last all our stuff is in the one place! Stayed the night.

Wed 26 July 2006
Caught a train to stay with Kane and Livia in Balham. What a lovely couple! They have 2 black cats. We used their place as a base to look at rental properties in Stratford (to be near Jen's workplace).

Our hosts - Kane and Livia

Thu 27 July 2006
Had a disappointing time looking for an affordable 3 bedroom house that wasn't already snapped up. Discovered that Real Estate agencies over here "bait + switch" rather than actually having the advertised properties available!!!! So, instead of wasting the rest of the day (we had day-passes on the tube) we visited Buckingham Palace, and strolled around the city a bit.

Buckingham Palace

Sat 29 July 2006
Looked at about 6 properties. Finally found a nice two bedroom terraced house only 7 minutes walk from Jen's work. Unfortunately we discover its not available for 3 weeks! Aaarrgghhh! But we decided to wait, as its so much nicer than all the others we'd seen in our price range, and the location is excellent. Its on a nice quiet no-through road.

Our house, in the middle of our street

Sun 30 July 2006
Left Kane and Livia's, then went and stayed with Dan + Elizabeth for a few days....they offered their attic for storage of our stuff.

Mon 31 July 2006
So we hired a stationwagon for two days to pick up our stuff from Luton. Well, the vehicle we ordered online wasn't available until the next day, so we got to use a van for Monday, and the four seater for Tuesday (to take us all to and from Basingstoke fighter practice).