Early Sunday mulling....

[caddyman]

Weekends really don't produce anything of note to write about these days.

I think it's largely down to the fact that with the exception of romney, everyone I used to know in the area has moved away over the past couple or three years. So if nothing else, a move may well be beneficial. Having said that, I don't know anyone in Totteridge either, apart from DT sans LJ. Speaking of whom, I am meeting him later today to discuss the minutiae if the move.

Such sordid topics as rent; that sort of thing.

Meanwhile, I have yet to start thinking about clearing rubbish from the garret, other than in the most unfocussed and inactive of ways. I do not know what to do with the video collection. To be honest I doubt whether most of them will ever get watched again, but I don't want to just throw them away. I thought about ebaying stuff, but Mrs Z's timing is exquisite. I lose a great deal of time over Christmas and the New Year, and expect to be busy packing and ejecting stuff in January. That means that realistically the damned stuff will end up traveling with me, although there's no reason why I couldn't ebay it all after the move. No reason except intrinsic inertia, of course.

romney has offered to store some stuff for me temporarily, for which offer I am grateful and will probably take advantage.

My biggest headache will be transport, I guess. I can drive, but haven't done so in the twenty years since I moved to London, and not only was it a long time ago, but Shropshire and the West Midlands is a far different driving environment that London and the South East.

Hire a man in a white van, I guess. More expense. Ho hum.

In the meantime, I have caught another mouse, and laid some fresh glue traps.

I shan't be sorry to see the back of those little bastards.

Comments

[delvy.livejournal.com]

Volunteer sir. Volunteer to drive and lift and carry. Live in Dagenham Sir so not too far....

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

likewise - only less good with the lift and carry bit and it would need to be on a weekend - car quite small but hiring van without a man is cheaper than one with

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Kat.

The drivage part is the bit that concerns me most. I was always a comparatively nervous driver, and lacking 20 years' practice and none in London...

It gives I the fear.

[dreamfire.livejournal.com]

I give other people the fear when driving in London, but am better than I was and much the happiest facing the city from behind the wheel of big white vans

[delvy.livejournal.com]

I am also more than happy to drive vannage round insane road systems and have done so on more than one occasion

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's mighty kind of you, Sirrah, and an offer I may take you up on. But not just yet; Late January or early February is the target date. I have a LOT of sorting to do.

[delvy.livejournal.com]

Whenever you need, just call ;-)

[sea-strands.livejournal.com]

I however, will miss the regular mouse tales.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm quite sure that other equally, portentious things will occur that require chronicalling with gross exaggeration and outright fibbery...

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

There is life in SW London, you know; caffeine_fairy, chomper99, me, rotwang...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

This is true, and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

What I meant was that I used to know a whole heap of people within stagger distance of here and the local watering hole. They have all gone over a period of 4-5 years.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

True, true. I haven't had any significant number of walking-distance friends since leaving Oxford...

The smallest violin

[romney.livejournal.com]

They have all gone...

Save me that is! Still here you know.

(pauses to consider presence of self in SW9 might be reason everyone's moved on... nah!)

Of course, Clapham will not be the same without you.

The Cafe is bound to close; either for lack of business or because the surfeit of uneaten chips will cause the floor to collapse into the Northern Line below.

Likewise, the KFC will need to find another customer, or two or three medium ones. Or a dozen small ones.

The Laundrette will have fewer lost socks to herd, and the other users will be able to open a drier without the risk of being mugged by a Wolves foopball shirt the size of the Dome.

The little shop on Union road that materialised with the sole purpose of selling you Berkeley Red, milk, pop and choccy-bars will disappear (perhaps with the faintest sound of tardis-engine)

Your name will be inscribed on the Role of Honour of Departed Drinkers in the Manor - only to be immediately painted-over when they redecorate yet again (lemon yellow this time?)

Worst of all, Romney will have to start renting DVDs he wants to watch rather than having you bring them round. On the bright side, the ashtray in my front room can be discarded, and the caddy-shaped dent in the sofa might, given time, slowly fill in again...

We must all have hope. Or at least chocolate.

Re: The smallest violin

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It's an odd little world you live in, isn't it?

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Want a hand packing?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That would be nice; I'm not starting in earnest until January, and having someone telling me to throw stuff out, rather than pack it, would be helpful! ;-)

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Right. Book me in for a weekend of going "Yes, but have you jused it in the last year?" ;o)

[westernind.livejournal.com]

Also am happy to drive van - have done the same for Jimfer in the last fortnight. Anything up to big Luton size is fine; not sure I'm confident with a seven and a half tonner... but if you have that much stuff then caffeine_fairy hasn't done her job properly!