Let's start with a cup of coffee, grab a biscuit and curl up on a sofa.
Well I turned 30 on the 7th of October and headed to Friends of Ham for lashings of cheese and wine. This use to be one of my go to first date bars as it walked that fine line between casual enough not to be intimidating but still being somewhere all your friends would not bump into you. Plus in addition to cheese there was a sufficient range of wine to please me and a range of craft ales to satisfy the date. It used to be quiet enough to talk but busy enough that you did not feel like all eyes were on you, it then became too popular and overpopulated during the week to comfortably have an intimate date.
As of October friends of ham has expanded and they now have double the space that they used to upstairs and I decided that was how I wanted to spend my birthday. And yes I did eat a whole cheese plate to myself.
The house is moving on and as you will have seen I completely messed up trying to paint the walls which I am still trying to salvage. Painting the walls in the living room grey has made it feel much more like the place belongs to me and there is something quite comforting about that.
The sofa's finally arrived, which in combination with the replacement council bin as mine had gone absent, has been the biggest improvement to my quality of life since the house was bought. It is surprising how much you end up wanting to be out when you are sitting in a nest of pillows on the floor.
The carpet in the house was horrendous and I mean awful, for some reason the previous owners thought cream indented carpet was a good idea, it is not, it was worn grubby and horrible. It has been replaced with a mocha heather carpet. It feels heavenly to walk on it with bare feet as it is squiggly plush and absolutely luxiourious.
A lot of my money is going into the house at the moment but I did manage to book a trip to New York in February for five nights on a deal through lastminute. I've started pinning ideas of things to do but would love suggestions.
Finally I went away with a group of my closet friends to a cabin in the woods at Swinton Bivouac. But there will be more to come on that one.
Any ways that's enough about me what's going on with you?
