Moving
I've been a bit quiet on here recently, this is mostly due to my new job sucking up most of my time. While living in Guildford the commute into work took 75+ minutes, each way. This weekend however myself and Ellen hired ourselves a transit van, packed up all our stuff and moved to Barnet in North London. This cuts my commute down to a much more manageable 45 minutes each way.

Driving a van was much easier than expected, and it didn't really cause me any problems. Reversing into a parking space at Ikea did take three attempts mind you...

We're all in now, and are in the process of unpacking everything into the vast (relative to what we had previously) amount of space in our shiny new flat. The biggest problem we're facing so far is that the TV reception is so poor that I can't get any digital channels. Hopefully some time spent with my portable antennae and booster will sort that out.

We clearly have something about living near train lines. Our Guildford house rumbled everytime a train went through the tunnel underneath us, and now this new flat is within earshot of the East Coast Mainline.

Tonight the job is to build a chest of drawers, providing we can find somewhere that sells a hammer!