There is Big News.
(WARNING: Boring life of the Dash update...)
It is tough not hearing as much music as I'd normally like, but there is a reason. Perhaps I should start writing emotive CD reviews instead, at least that wouldn't cost me any money. It's not that I'm poor, it's just that I've pledged all my spare money to the new house.1
Yup, I said it - New House!
Way, way back, while I was reminiscing about my time in India and such, the GF and I put an offer in on a house we liked. We had to sell ours quickly, and we did - on the very morning it went on sale - for the asking price too, which was Good.
About six or seven months later, as the chain resolves itself we finally have a house we can call our own! Apparently the delay is all something to do with the people at the end (six houses in the chain), who at first are procrastinating because they haven't found anywhere to live yet. Then they decide to go into rented accommodation to allow us all to move and it is going to be all done and dusted by the end of March.
We discover a that we are actually all waiting for these people at the end to get retrospective planning permission for a naughty extension and our lives are in the balance...
Of course now it's all confirmed, the surveys are done and we're booking removal men and packing and sorting out what to throw away (not MY stuff!), because that's what you do when you move.
There are big plans for my play room, almost all my music toys (4 guitars, keyboard, guitar amp, mixer etc) are in storage at the GF's parents' house and I can't wait to get them back and built into a hugely complicated desk/shelf arrangement integrated with my computer. Also in storage since December are all my CD's (a paltry 800 or so), vinyl (much less), books and sundry items of dubious worth. Oh how I've missed it all. Not that I've been unhappy, I still have my piano and computer!
Expect to see lots of pictures of the extension and the transformation of the garden when we finally move in, which will be in July. Preliminary sketches:
- Oh, and Glastonbury of course, which will no doubt feed my live music cravings more than adequately!
"sorting out what to throw away (not MY stuff!), because that's what you do when you move"
No. That's what you think you do before you move then do again afterwards. Then you say to yourself, "My God, why did I bother moving all this crap?" I'll buy you a pint if that doesn't come to be. I give it three months.
I do feel like I already chucked everything away. The only thing we haven't done is get rid of our duplicate CD's, which we'll do when they're all in one place!
I guess there might be some 'streamlining' but I'll be resisting all the way!!!