Moving day! OMG this was one of the longest days of my life. Got up early in the morning and rode my bike down to pick up the hire van from Wandsworth. Used the same company Alex and Sian did - £45 for the whole day which is pretty reasonable. Met Saul there and we chucked our bikes in the back of the van and drove it back to my flat. Saul was pretty hungover though so I had to drive, which was fun as there was no power steering.So we dumped the van outside my old flat and then I jumped on a tube to meet bri at the airport. Unfortunately due to baggage delays, although his flight landed at 1:20pm his didn’t get out till about 3pm. This put a little bit of a spanner in the works as we were so short on time already. Just got to say though, bri did pretty well – he was tired but managed to help out during the day and stayed up with the rest of us till about 1am that night!
although he did well, there were a couple of moments where it was all too much for bri ;)While I was out collecting Bri, Corey and Saul were busy at my old flat bringing down all my stuff from my room on the 3rd floor to get ready to load into the van. Bri had a quick shower while we were packing and then the 4 of us squeezed into the 3 seater van and made our way to my new flat. Thank god the guys helped out cos it would have taken my days to move everything on my own, not to mention there’s no way I would have been able to carry my mattress.Next stop was to get some chow, and what better place to do that than our favourite Indian joint, Indian Flavours. These guys do a mean curry and I was keen to expose Bri to the Wrath of Khan as an introduction to London (Annie, Kee, Alex and Sian know what I’m talking about - this dish will make you cry it’s so hot!). The food lived up to expectations, but the music was just dire. Try to imagine, out of tune cover songs from the likes of Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey, Boys to Men, mixed with random laser sounds and some rapper dude shouting ‘Go colors!’ every now and again. Our ears were bleeding.
Next it was off to my work to pick up some plants. Since we’re moving office, we were told that all the plants were being thrown out so we decided to save them all. Corey decided he’d take a ride in the back of the van (cold, dark and no seatbelt!) which was probably a bit of a mistake cos the traffic was just appalling. The trip took about 1hr to get there because we ran into a little problem trying to get some fuel – we filled up the tank but then couldn’t get the fuel cap back in, despite getting help from the petrol station attendants and dousing it in WD40! In the end we just had to duck tape it to the van. By now it was about 9pm and we were all knackered.
duck taping the fuel cap to the van
corey in the back of the vanIt was weird being at work so late in the night and on a Sunday. I felt like I was pulling some sort of a dodgy as we loaded 7 or 8 large 6ft tall plants into the back of the van! It took forever and on top of that it was cold, wet and windy. Grrrr. But we were almost there. Next stop was Corey’s house to drop him off and a couple of the plants, then Saul’s house to do the same. Then finally we drove the van back to Wandsworth and caught a night bus, then tube, then taxi home. Phew what a day! Thanks to everyone who helped out.
bri babysitting the plants outside my work
trying to figure out how to move the plants
although he did well, there were a couple of moments where it was all too much for bri ;)While I was out collecting Bri, Corey and Saul were busy at my old flat bringing down all my stuff from my room on the 3rd floor to get ready to load into the van. Bri had a quick shower while we were packing and then the 4 of us squeezed into the 3 seater van and made our way to my new flat. Thank god the guys helped out cos it would have taken my days to move everything on my own, not to mention there’s no way I would have been able to carry my mattress.Next stop was to get some chow, and what better place to do that than our favourite Indian joint, Indian Flavours. These guys do a mean curry and I was keen to expose Bri to the Wrath of Khan as an introduction to London (Annie, Kee, Alex and Sian know what I’m talking about - this dish will make you cry it’s so hot!). The food lived up to expectations, but the music was just dire. Try to imagine, out of tune cover songs from the likes of Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey, Boys to Men, mixed with random laser sounds and some rapper dude shouting ‘Go colors!’ every now and again. Our ears were bleeding.
Next it was off to my work to pick up some plants. Since we’re moving office, we were told that all the plants were being thrown out so we decided to save them all. Corey decided he’d take a ride in the back of the van (cold, dark and no seatbelt!) which was probably a bit of a mistake cos the traffic was just appalling. The trip took about 1hr to get there because we ran into a little problem trying to get some fuel – we filled up the tank but then couldn’t get the fuel cap back in, despite getting help from the petrol station attendants and dousing it in WD40! In the end we just had to duck tape it to the van. By now it was about 9pm and we were all knackered.
duck taping the fuel cap to the van
corey in the back of the vanIt was weird being at work so late in the night and on a Sunday. I felt like I was pulling some sort of a dodgy as we loaded 7 or 8 large 6ft tall plants into the back of the van! It took forever and on top of that it was cold, wet and windy. Grrrr. But we were almost there. Next stop was Corey’s house to drop him off and a couple of the plants, then Saul’s house to do the same. Then finally we drove the van back to Wandsworth and caught a night bus, then tube, then taxi home. Phew what a day! Thanks to everyone who helped out.
bri babysitting the plants outside my work
trying to figure out how to move the plants
