Entries tagged with tipton

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: Tingri Maiden - Jonn Serrie

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Finally Got My Carhartts Back!

I loves me Carhartts. I've missed 'em these last few years. As well as my white Utah Grizzlies shirt. That's the thing about putting your stuff in storage. Yes, there is bound to be stuff that you've lived without and can happily put out to trash or goodwill. But there's other stuff that I've really missed like my CD and DVD collection. And some of my pictures.

There's still loads of boxes still to be emptied. Problem is, not having a car. I need to get another bookcase, some CD cases and a TV unit from IKEA, and run a few trips to the Domestic Refuse Centre or whatever they call it locally. Need to try and call in a few favours somehow...

Current Mood: distressed
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk

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move,
tipton

Help! Send A Search Party!

The removal men have been and gone; the apartment is now filled with boxes. And, as expected, I'm in a state of shock, unsure where to start or how everything will fit in the flat!

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: The #1 Song In Heaven - Sparks

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Twenty Four Little Hours...

In 24 hours or so, I should be on my way back from Portsmouth, having let the removal men shift my stuff out of storage.
In 48 hours or so, all my stuff will (hopefully) have found its way to the West Midlands. And I will most likely be sat looking at it all thinking "Where the hell do I start?"
But it closes a chapter and starts a new one.
Hopefully the one with all the sex in...

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: Big Generator - Yes

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Let You Read The Pages Where The Ink Hadn't Dried...

Seven months and I'm still here.
Looks like I'm settling then...
In truth, I have had a good offer from my landlord to take a tenancy on the whole of this apartment, which means that we need to sort our between himself and myself what is to stay and what is to go. Most of the back bedroom is being boxed up and shipped out along with the store closet outside the apartment. Just need to go through the other rooms and sort out what furniture (and other stuff) can stay and what needs to go. Then, on September 21st., I go back down to Portsmouth to supervise the emptying of my two storage rooms. The next day, everything arrives here in the West Midlands.

The process then begins to sort through my stuff that I haven't seen for 2 1/2 years. Some of it will need to go to goodwill; some will get sold on e-bay. Yes, I could have done that 2 1/2 years ago, but then I didn't know my stuff was going into storage for as long as it was. After that, plans. I have been promising to go and see my sister in Sweden, near Gothenburg. My computer won't let me paste in the correct name for the city for some reason. Then Christmas. After that, I might be able to make Tucson and Fiesta 2010, but it depends on raising cash - the number of Delta Skymiles seems to vary depending on whether I leave the UK on a Delta or a former NWA flight. Which probably means that once the merger is complete, the number of miles needed will increase to the Delta rate, and I will be short by 1000 or so miles. We shall see...

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: Occupy Your Mind - Dusty Springfield

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Port Out, Starboard Home...

The other day, the new boss (Mandy) caught me on the hop. She made a comment along the lines of hoping I would bring a little sophistication to the office because I sounded posh.

"Posh???" I looked up with horror and my voice went up at least two octaves. "Posh???!!!"

I'm not really that cut glass am I???

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: In The Land Of Make Believe - Dusty Springfield

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A Quick Tour...

...of the new pad.

( Clicky here to go in the front door. )

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Tipton Penthouse
Current Music: In The Land of Make Believe - Dusty Springfield

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move,
tipton

First Morning In Tipton...

Quiet. There's nobody here but me, Dusty Springfield and a whole load of toy koalas. The move went smoothly sans catastrophe and lots of willing helping hands. Many, many thanks to Matt (husband of

madamemish ) for driving and not being too phased at the whole host of luggage that ended up in the Transit van. Surprised myself by getting a whole load of stuff unpacked quite quickly, so there's really not that much more to do, it seems.

I think today may well be a day for exploring the neighborhood.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Sneinton Homestead
Current Music: Happy New Year - ABBA

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Nothing More Than Confetti On The Floor...

2008 is now past. 2009 dawns with exciting (sic) new possibilities - well, a new job, a new home at least. But as always, a bit of me is stuck in the past; the losses and disappointments of the last year. That's just part of the human condition.

Isn't it?

Anyway, to all readers of these random jottings, a happy, healthy and successful 2009.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: The Sneinton Homestead
Current Music: Trains and Winter Rains - Eithne Ni Bhraonain

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move,
tipton

Things Moving Ever Forwards...

(for once)
Well, visit to the Black Country yesterday was successful; looked at about 8 different rooms in 4 different apartments/houses and I think I have chosen one. It's a bit further out than the others; I will need to catch the train or bus into work each day but it has the advantage that I will hopefully have the run of the place most of the time as the landlord lives with his girlfriend most of the time and comes over a couple of times a week to collect the mail. I just have to ring him today to sort out references and getting a deposit to him. Of course the pessimist in me is expecting the worst, but then that's to be expected. Only time will tell, so as always I will prepare for the worst but hope for the best...