Hump Day

It seems like a few days since I have updated this here blog, so now is as good a time as any. I am covering the reception desk for our archives. It is very quiet, just a few people marvelling at the free postcards!

Last week sometime I managed, very cleverly, to trip over the phone cord and pull the cord out of the wall and in the process completely bugger up the plug! So we have had no phone line and therefore no internet since then. We are having it fixed tonight by an electrician. Over here any old electrician can fix your phone plugs which is handy and not as expensive as getting the phone company to do it for us! Then we shall be connected to the world again. What a relief!

On the weekend I went to have a look at a new part of London (well, new to me!). It is in the east, as we are, and called Hackney. It is a much more culturally diverse part of London than I thought it would be. I really enjoyed wandering the streets with my friend Isa. She used to live there so she knows all the good places etc. Found a great curtain shop which I am sure we shall be visiting again. They even had a lovely cat who was perched on a roll of black material.

We have asked our landlord to put in a new curtain rail as the current one will not hold winter curtains. Winter curtains are a must here as so much heat escapes through the glass, even though all our windows are doubled glazed. Our current curtains are just flimsy cotton things, fine for summer but it is getting cool at night now so they need to be changed!!) After much deliberation, the landlord seems to have come up with a solution. We can buy a curtain rail to be fitted (someone will fit it for us) but it must be left there and the current curtains put back when we leave. Fine. So now comes the fun of finding suitable curtains etc. We have already found some curtain linings we want (they are thermal and blockout) so we just need the curtains and the railings! Oh joy!

We had a quiet day on Sunday and saw two movies. We saw The Queen and then Children of Men after that. It was raining very hard all day on and off. I enjoyed The Queen as it gave an interesting perspective into the events after the death of Princess Diana. The Australian media did not cover as much as the British media did regarding the lack of response from the Royal Family. Or not that I can remember anyway! The other movie was a little confusing, but there were excellent sets and it was certainly a story to make you think "what if".

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