Tuesday 13 October 2009

Moving home

Sorry for being so quiet recently, if there is anyone waiting for my posts? (I know, for a fact, I've got at least one follower.) Some time last July we moved into a new flat and it wasn't very easy for many reasons. Basically I had no time or rather no energy to focus on anything.

To tell you a little bit about it, we nearly moved to Manchester from London because Rob had (and still does) have his office up there. We had found this flat in Salford quay. It was on the 18th floor. Yes, that's right. It's not a typo. It's on the 18th floor. It had a small balcony and the view was quite something, not because of particularly beautiful scenery but because of the sheer height. It certainly gives an undeniable impact on your sensory system. Anyway, I did not really fancy sitting out there. In fact, the first thing came into my mind was that it would be dead easy to kill yourself in this flat if you wanted. All you needed to do is just to step outside onto the balcony and jump off. Well, maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing to give it a miss after all.

To make a long story short, things didn't go as we planned and we decided to stay in our familiar surroundings. Since the decision was made at the last minute, we had very little time to find a new flat to move in and the whole thing became so stressful. Anyway, we are now settled in our new home.

One big change is that we don't have a gas supply in our new flat. Everything is electricity powered including the cooker in the kitchen. Like everybody I know, I don't like the electric cookers. It takes so long for the electric cooker to heat up and once it's heated up, it also takes ages to cool down. It is simply too hard to control the heat or to judge the cooking time. It makes me feel like I'm wasting the (very) expensive energy all the time.




Another joy of our new kitchen is the sink. We had this small round aluminium kitchen sink in our old flat. Apparently it was from IKEA and from our flat hunting experience, it seemed quite popular in rented flats for some reason. We both hated it with passion as it is just not practical at all. And guess what! We have got a smaller round sink now. I thought our old one was small enough. Who would have guessed that there can be even smaller one.




One consolation though is that we don't have a wooden work top like we did in previous place. I'm now trying to use the dishwasher as much as I can. Otherwise, there is no way that I can do the dishes without spilling the water all over the floor.

PS) I guess I’m not a natural writer unfortunately as it is proving quite difficult to keep my blog updated but I’ll try my best.