We’re in!

We got the keys on Saturday, and slept over on the double airbed Saturday and Sunday nights. It all felt a bit weird and unreal, like it’s not really ours.

The red walls are taking rather longer than expected to paint over – 3 coats to date, and you can still see the white border…. and I doubt that either of us will voluntarily prepare walls using sugar soap ever again either.

We had removals from Hackney-to Barbican yesterday. All I can say is it’s a huge relief to have that all behind us, even if the flat’s now looking like a FedEx depot – boxes, boxes everywhere!!

TJBR were our first visitors, bringing with them a Sunday afternoon tea kit, including kettle and cake!

Hazel came round last night with a bottle of vino, and I had to confess to not being able to locate the corkscrews. Good job Phil had his penknife to hand….

Matt Jones and Fiona Romeo get wed

… required a mad dash back from the OU Revision weekend in Reading, but worth it as:

1. Everyone was wonderful and happy, Matt and Fiona most of all
2. There were lots of Mary-and-Phil friends there
3. I saw inside the RSA – a fascinating building, where Barney and Rosa outdid themselves in the Olympic Stair Jumping stakes (Tom Coates did quite well too)
4. It gave my sides a rest from Maurice/Tony/Steve induced laughter

Photos by Tom Coates
Photos by Chris and Helen Locke
Photos by me and/or Rosa and/or Barney and/or Phil

My favourites:

  • Barney-does-Busted – by me, by Chris

  • Supermodel Rosa

  • Rosa and me

  • The cake!
  • Dodgeball

    I feel unworthy for saying this, but Phil and I went to see Dodgeball on Friday night, and I’ve not laughed so much and so loudly for ages, to the extent that I had tears streaming down my face (unlike Wednesday’s tears which were booze-fuelled. uh oh).

    Just what the doctor ordered.