Home Sweet Temporary Home

So this is what it has come to...I have finally cracked and have resorted to blogging.

Whilst Chris has the problem of over-embellishing his stories, my problem is that I can't remember what I've already written to each person whom I email, so I find myself repeating the same "witty" remark to the same person, which ends up leaving me sounding not-so-witty. So in the interests of preserving some vague image of witty-ness, it seems that blogging may be the way to go...

We have decided to tag-team the re-hashing of our past 2 months in London, so I guess I'd better get a move-on and post something so that I can pass the task back to Chris.

Here are some shots of our home for the first month in London (again thanks to Chris's work):

It was pretty new and swish, and it really did trick us into thinking that we could afford to live in a similar place permanently whilst we were in London - we were wrong.

3 weeks of apartment hunting and 25 apartment viewings convinced me just how wrong we were, but in the end, we have found ourselves a decent apartment to call home.

I'm loving our current apartment, but the things that I really miss about our temporary accommodation are:

* The big kitchen - I think it's about 4 times the size of our current kitchen and I'm not exaggerating (although I'm very bad at judging space so I'm probably wrong anyway...)

* The dishwasher that I grew to love - At home, the closest thing that we have to a dishwasher is my dad and we have always washed our dishes the traditional hand-washing way, but it only took me less than a week to become a dishwasher-convert. Such a brilliant invention!!

Sadly, there is no dishwasher in our current apartment and there would be no way of fitting a dishwasher into our kitchen (unless we were to sacrifice the fridge or something), so it's been a harsh readjustment to the joys of hand-washing.....

* The flat-screen TV with 300 channels of pay TV - Now this is probably what I miss the most. Chris is still persisting with his no-tv-for-a-year-because-it'll-improve-our-communication experiment. I think it's a nice concept, but why did it have to involve TV?????

I feel like I am missing out on some kind of cultural aspect of our stay in the UK because I am unable to watch trashy BBC dramas, or get my dose of reality TV (a new season of UK Big Brother was launched last night and I could only read about it in the paper today!! ugh) and I almost cried when I found out that Eurovision was on a few weeks ago and I couldn't watch it!!

That said though, I think I am actually getting used to our TV-less existence and most of the time, I don't even miss it, although it may have a lot to do with the fact that most nights, we usually end up watching movies on the laptop instead....it may defeat the purpose of not having a TV, but at least it gives us something to look forward to when we're hand-washing our dishes after dinner!