h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There are 10 minutes left of my last w*rkday before the move. No, make that 9 minutes. I'm off to the pub just as soon as 9 minutes turns into 0 minutes.

The removalists are confirmed as booked for 30 January, but there is still some quibbling about packing-boxes to deal with. But that can wait. There's only 8 minutes between me and the illusion of freedom...

Hope you're sleeping off a night of drunken laughter, and may you wake up refreshed and hangoverless.

Nope, I'm afraid my head hurts, but it was worth it.

Today I intend to do nothing at all. Tomorrow the serious culling and packing will start. Probably.

Sorry to hear your sad and terrable
news ivan, i'm also renting from a private landlord I once had lease for six month's but now changed for deff untill I want to leave, not when the landlord want's to move me out, it's very differant over here in England they can't just take you from your home they need court papers. Hope you find somewhere nice soon with a garden maybe


tgc.

People keep saying it's better for tenants in Britain, but in practice it's not like that at all. Who are these landlords who can be pushed around like this? I haven't met any. Nearly every house I've rented, I've been booted out on a month's notice. Surely, if you don't go when they tell you to, they'll keep your deposit. I'm the only person I know who has managed to have my deposit returned on every move. I've known tenants have all their belongings chucked onto the lawn, and the locks changed while they were out. They couldn't afford the time, stress, or money to go to court about it.

A British landlord's trick that I've fallen victim to is signing a six month lease and then, after six months, 'forgetting' to arrange a longer contract whilst you carry on living there. It means you haven't a leg to stand on when they decide they don't want you there anymore.

Ivan - blimey, it's all go for you! Make the most of it mate. Dust yourself down, take stock, don't fall back into any ruts, use the momentum to do things that apathy has prevented.

Ivan - 2 notes about moving....

Pack the heavy stuff on the bottom and the light stuff on top....

Pay someone else to pack for you if you can.

BTW - I worked for a moving company for several years starting as a packer and working my way up to dir of training. If you fly me over there, I will pack your house for you.

Also on packing:

You will always end up packing a container with contents which are just too heavy for you to carry comfortably. Pack yourself, but find someone stronger than you to lift your stuff.

terri whoo writes>:BTW - I worked for a moving company for several years starting as a packer and working my way up to dir of training. If you fly me over there, I will pack your house for you

this sounds like a very good idea

Yes, it does sound like a good idea. Pity I can't pay for the flight... Nor can I pay for someone else to do the packing on this occasion, which is a nuisance.

I get the keys tomorrow - then it'll become real, and I'll get a renewed sense of urgency. For now, though, it's the weekend and I intend to fill it with my usual weekend activities - apathy, indolence, and hanging around interesting food shops thinking about az getting envious.

>>apathy, indolence, and hanging around interesting food shops thinking about az getting envious<<

Now that's the proper way to waste your time. Glad to hear everything sorted itself out

Post 266 was written under the inluence of alchohol and 'interesting fungus'. Sorry for the rant!

It didn't look all that ranty - though it did look a bit '11pm at the pub on a Friday'.

Didn't go to the pub - it was more down to the unusual mushroom chocolate, and bearing that in mind it was surprisingly legible. You should have seen what I was going to post in the 'Cannabis' thread. I saved it in note pad when I couldn't focus anymore and, upon reading it this morning, realised that it was just as well it went no further.

Things seem to be moving along for you. You've had a lot to go through in a short ime, but that can be for the best - get it all over at once.

Sorry, again (sans fungus).

One NIL, one NIL, one NIL, one NIIIIIIIIL. But we're still going down.

Possibly a tad off topic.


Roymondo, go get a beer and leave this poor thread alone for while. Go on. Chill out, relax, have a bit of a sit down. Oh, you *are* sitting down. Try sitting down over *there* instead. Yes, that's right, away from the laptop. No, you CAN'T take it with you. Look, Dave (sorry, Roymondo. ahem), you're drunk. Go sober up. Have some coffee and a Spangle. OK, maybe not a Spangle. Bacon sandwich. Yes, you can put mayo on it. No, there is no innuendo in 'bacon sanwich', even *with* mayo.)

Argh! No bacon!!!!!!!!!!

Spangle sandwich with mayo; it's the only answer. Cures all known ailments. If Hitler had been weaned onto these he would have turned out such a nice boy, i blame the parents meself.

zdt

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az

What are Spangles, in this context?

Az, I didn't get any interesting Ethiopian delicacies today; they were late in setting up and I had a bus to catch. I had to settle for Laotian instead.

Where's the smiley when you need it?


az

Here be Spangles & lots of other nostalgic sweeties.(scroll down)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/spangles_mints.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/pop/sweets.htm&h=207&w=200&sz=11&tbnid=F0SFpgxZ0e1MVM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=96&hl=en&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspangles%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%7Clang_fr%26sa%3DG

Odd how we all gobbled down loads of junky sweet stuff, but nobody ever seemed too worried about obesity, hyper activity etc. We did get "Yer teef will drop out" stuff, but that was about it. Still got most of mine 50 yrs on, though they are in pretty bad nick it must be said.

What do Laots eat then? I imagine Ethiopan = mainly goat & cassava type stuff?

zdt