During the summer after Ripple closed I decided that with this 'new life' of mine it was probably time for a new place to live! I did some hunting and found a few places but fell in love with one in particular. So, after a fairly quick turnaround of paper exchanges and money being paid, I moved into my very own house on 29th October 2010!
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| Here is a very happy me! |
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| living room from dining room - look at all that lovely light! |
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| dining room from living room - look at all that lovely space!!! |
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| kitchen, lovely kitchen, all wooden and spacious - hip hippity hooray! |
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| what's down here.... |
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| ....that'll be a MASSIVE... |
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| ...TWO BAY cellar! And with a coal shoot - lovely lovely lovely!!! |
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| from kitchen to garden - check out that view! |
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| I'm going to enjoy cooking in here.... |
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| hallway - lovely tiles!! |
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| stupendously HUGE bathroom with a lovely bath and... |
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| ...check out the size of that shower!!! |
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| spare room |
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| nice size |
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| master bedroom with lovely floorboards! |
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| stairs to...THIRD FLOOR! |
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| there's a boiler in here and LOADS of storage space |
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| last set of steps to... |
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| ...the top floor bedroom - aka my STUDIO SPACE! |
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So after 1 day and 5 van loads later...the house started looking a bit of a mess!
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| dining room - living room! |
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| breakout panda! |
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| um, the living room?! |
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| and that beautiful spacious kitchen... |
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| ...full of STUFF! |
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| we couldn't move! |
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| arrrgghh! |
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| but at least mike found the teabags! |
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| MORE stuff....really? |
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| I don't know where I put it all in my 2 bed flat!!! |
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| The lovely Ben and Claire who helped move some monstrous bits of furniture - definitely worked for those pints! |
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So that was night 1, with 2-4-1 pizzas and a bottle of champagne! Slept at Mike's due to dismantled bed and grabbed a bacon sarnie in the morning on the way over.
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| Saw this 'display' in the cob shop and quite liked it! |
Day 2 was unpack, last trip to Lincolnshire and phillysteak sandwich from
OK diner!
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| Mr Mike my very own Mr Fix it! |
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| Look how much space there is! It's a whole other room! |
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| Starting to look creative! |
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| Hello pretty peacock! |
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| Getting there...at least I can sleep here tonight! |
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| Now THAT'S better! |
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| He's just gotta 'fix things' does Mike... |
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| ...very much appreciated though, look how tidy this is now!? Think we should treat ourselves to a little deli lunch. It's only down the road. yum yum yum, what shall we have? a chorizo & jarlsberg and a garlic sausage & mustard sandwich please! |
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| And by the evening....it looks like I've lived here forever!! Ahhhhhhhh. |
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| Tesco (round the corner) pizza for dinner and some Becks - lovely! Night Night X x |
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| Good morning new home! I'm very excited to be living in you!! |
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| Mike having a well deserved REST whilst I make a lovely fry up with the help of the Butcher from the bottom of my road! |
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| Lobster for tea? well, i have just moved haven't I!? |
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| How great does this look!!! |
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| Now that's one happy kitchen! |
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| I'm going to decorate this with Mucha in mind... |
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| all thanks to that AMAZING mirror my parents left behind |
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All in all I drove 820 miles and unload 7 vans worth of stuff during my move!!! I definitely won't be doing that again for a very VERY long time indeed!!!
