Friday, April 18th, 2008

caddyman: (athenaeum club)
At about 13.50 this afternoon [livejournal.com profile] colonel_maxim loaded the remainder of his luggage into the limousine that had arrived and as I type he is on his way to Heathrow, flying out at 17.00 for parts East.

I got up at the usual time, had a little breakfast with [livejournal.com profile] ellefurtle and then wandered back to bed for a couple of hours after she left for work. Up again about ten to pootle on the PC and then down for a natter and a cup of coffee. The Colonel and I then decamped to the Whetstone Cafe - the greasy spoon up the road and not the best local cafe, but the one we frequented when first we arrived in the area for one last life-threatening fry up and then very suddenly that was that. The Atheneaum Club as it was is no more.

I have just done a little tidying and the washing up; walked around the flat and turned off various radiators that kept The Colonel at his customary hot house temperatures and then closed all the doors to the rooms we shall no longer need. With the exception of the bath and shower rooms, that is the entire middle floor, though they will still see some use when [livejournal.com profile] smokingboot visits and also for as brief spell in six weeks when the Colonel himself returns for the first of his many paid holidays.

But today is the end of an era. We shall give it a week or so I guess and then start the slow and leisurely process of sifting through our possessions to see what will make the move with us at the end of the lease and what can be donated to charity, free cycled, eBayed or plain dumped.

I confess to feeling just a little melancholy at the prospect of it all, but that won't last. Three months from now we shall be in a new flat - hopefully better maintained and cheaper. Whether here in Whetstone or somewhere else entirely is yet to be determined.
caddyman: (athenaeum club)
At about 13.50 this afternoon [livejournal.com profile] colonel_maxim loaded the remainder of his luggage into the limousine that had arrived and as I type he is on his way to Heathrow, flying out at 17.00 for parts East.

I got up at the usual time, had a little breakfast with [livejournal.com profile] ellefurtle and then wandered back to bed for a couple of hours after she left for work. Up again about ten to pootle on the PC and then down for a natter and a cup of coffee. The Colonel and I then decamped to the Whetstone Cafe - the greasy spoon up the road and not the best local cafe, but the one we frequented when first we arrived in the area for one last life-threatening fry up and then very suddenly that was that. The Atheneaum Club as it was is no more.

I have just done a little tidying and the washing up; walked around the flat and turned off various radiators that kept The Colonel at his customary hot house temperatures and then closed all the doors to the rooms we shall no longer need. With the exception of the bath and shower rooms, that is the entire middle floor, though they will still see some use when [livejournal.com profile] smokingboot visits and also for as brief spell in six weeks when the Colonel himself returns for the first of his many paid holidays.

But today is the end of an era. We shall give it a week or so I guess and then start the slow and leisurely process of sifting through our possessions to see what will make the move with us at the end of the lease and what can be donated to charity, free cycled, eBayed or plain dumped.

I confess to feeling just a little melancholy at the prospect of it all, but that won't last. Three months from now we shall be in a new flat - hopefully better maintained and cheaper. Whether here in Whetstone or somewhere else entirely is yet to be determined.
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As little as I like the thought of moving, it has to be done - the Athenaeum Club is much too big and expensive for just Furtle and me and it does need a lot of work doing to it that the landlord does not seem inclined to pay for.

But ohhhh, the space. Unless you've lived for any length of time in a tiny garret as I have, you won't fully appreciate the luxury of having so much space, but there we are, needs must when the Devil drives and all that. As luck would have it the letting agents phoned the Colonel this morning before he left, asking if we wanted to extend the lease. That led to me going in there this afternoon to explain the position. Despite all the work that needs doing and the lack of any sort of service, the landlord, magnanimously, was willing to extend the lease, but wanted to raise the rent by £100 a month. The letting agent had apparently negotiated that down to an additional £50 a month. How nice.

I'd love to see his face when he realises that he is actually going to have to pay out some geld; he won't be able to re-let until all the stuff we wanted sorting has been sorted. It is going to cost him a packet - though probably not the packet it should since he will hire a bunch of cowboys to paint over the cracks. Not that I care.

Anyway, I have asked the letting agents to forward details of any two bedroom flats that come up in the Whetstone area, even though we may not end up staying here. It seems that rents are likely to be in the £800 to £900 bracket. I leave you to decide which is closest to what we end up paying...
caddyman: (Default)
As little as I like the thought of moving, it has to be done - the Athenaeum Club is much too big and expensive for just Furtle and me and it does need a lot of work doing to it that the landlord does not seem inclined to pay for.

But ohhhh, the space. Unless you've lived for any length of time in a tiny garret as I have, you won't fully appreciate the luxury of having so much space, but there we are, needs must when the Devil drives and all that. As luck would have it the letting agents phoned the Colonel this morning before he left, asking if we wanted to extend the lease. That led to me going in there this afternoon to explain the position. Despite all the work that needs doing and the lack of any sort of service, the landlord, magnanimously, was willing to extend the lease, but wanted to raise the rent by £100 a month. The letting agent had apparently negotiated that down to an additional £50 a month. How nice.

I'd love to see his face when he realises that he is actually going to have to pay out some geld; he won't be able to re-let until all the stuff we wanted sorting has been sorted. It is going to cost him a packet - though probably not the packet it should since he will hire a bunch of cowboys to paint over the cracks. Not that I care.

Anyway, I have asked the letting agents to forward details of any two bedroom flats that come up in the Whetstone area, even though we may not end up staying here. It seems that rents are likely to be in the £800 to £900 bracket. I leave you to decide which is closest to what we end up paying...

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