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Cleaning, camper vans and Croatia
Monday, October 20th, 2008Its two weeks today that we move into our new house 
Spent the weekend packing, cleaning and generally trying to organise things for the move. We have borrowed a steam cleaner thing off of Ollies folks, and Ollie spent hours steaming the kitchen and bathroom yesterday. The flat is gonna be ten times cleaner when we leave than it was when we moved in.
Ollie and Matt also ripped Ollies old desk apart, scattering splinters of wood into every corner of the flat while trying not to get unseen nails embedded in feet or hands in the process. I on the other hand busied myself with the far more dangerous job of packing my music stuff into boxes and tidying up all the leads.
Been going through a bad patch with the indigestion lately, and as I tend to get it at night, usually being woken up with it at 3am, it means I don’t get enough sleep and end up being tired and grumpy during the day. Why I can’t get it during the day when I’m awake enough to stand up, take tablets or whatever, I don’t know. Instead I end up dreaming about being stabbed in the chest, then have to spend half the night standing up and eating lots of calcium carbonate. Arse.
We’ve also been shopping for cars. We wanted a camper - a kayaking friend of ours spends most weekends driving up and down the country to go paddling, so he has a really nice van with a fridge and cooker, and bed in which to sleep. We thought that sounded brilliant, but of course they are also bloody expensive (3-4 times the price of a normal car - at least the ones we were looking at), and we worked out that if we bought a car, we could use the money we save to stay in nice cabins (the money we save would allow us to stay in cabins every weekend for almost 2 years!!!). Of course, we loose the flexibility of having a camper - not being restricted to where / when you go, not having to plan and book places in advance etc. - but we will get something that’s easier to drive and a bit more practical generally.
That took us on to an argument about what sort of car we should buy. Ollie wanted something safe, something that would handle well in the snow and ice. I wanted one of the old style Mini coopers with the soft roof and the stripes down the bonnet. It goes without saying that Ollie won that argument.
So we have taken the first week in November off so we can move in to our new house.
We have taken the second week in November off so we can go on holiday - Ollie booked us a week in Croatia
Its gonna be so nice after weeks of packing, cleaning and moving to just bugger off for a week of reading, going for walks and maybe some diving. Can’t wait 
