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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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"May you all have good lives"
I leave London tomorrow, for good. We've spent the last few days giving the house a good cleaning - it's actually funny how the house it's at its absolutely cleanest when we're moving out. We've discovered the magic of fridge wipes and that the cooker hood isn't actually the colour we thought it was. I suppose it's never too late.
I'm home after a long dinner (and ice cream) with the house - my very last night at the crumbly, rickety and slightly slanted house that we've come to call home. There's a sense of finality that comes with an empty room and a packed suitcase and while I probably won't miss our street (or the rickety house) very much, I'm going to miss living with an insane amount of people. Heck, I'll probably miss the creaky old house a tiny, tiny bit.
It's been a fantastic three years - we've made enough memories to last a lifetime, cooked enough food collectively to feed a small nation, ordered enough ASOS parcels to clothe the neigbourhood and generated enough trash to fill an entire landfill. (Apparently the garbage collectors laughed out loud when they saw our last pile of trash).
So yes, we're all moving on - from the house and from the crazy No. 42 days. Perhaps we'll be back someday but for now, I'm really hoping Dominic got it right with his "good lives" bit.
Sunday, 14 August 2011
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Ending on a high
Three years seems like a long time but it isn't. Not really.
I couldn't have asked for a better end.
From And then we graduate!
Friday, 15 July 2011
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On the move
I am on a train heading north as it passes by huge green fields dotted with sheep. My breakfast baguette is long gone and my coffee has gone cold - there's only about 20 minutes left to my journey. I'm partial to train travel - always, always preferring it to flying. None of of the hassle of trying to get to an airport or all that waiting around to board. I love the hustle and bustle of a railway station, the occasional person hurrying past as they run for their trains, the smell of pastries and coffee.
I'm going to miss all of this when I leave- the wide open spaces of the English countryside, My iPod on shuffle and a good book
Sunday, 10 July 2011
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Living the dream
I'm sitting in my room, amidst boxes suitcases and random things strewn around. It feels like the world has been pulled from right under my feet, chucked into a washing machine and returned to me in a bit of a mess - and I have to say that I'm absolutely loving it this way. Any semblance of a routine has been tossed out the window, I'm sleeping on a bed with only half of my bed linen on and I've lost all track of days. Yes, I'm loving every bit of it.
The past month and a half has been a whirlwind of flights and timezones (I've come to believe that if you do enough timezone jumping, everything somehow corrects itself and you end up with none of that horrible jetlag). There's a sense of liberation that comes with being able to just pack your bags and go - no work to worry about, no obligations left, just summer and all its joys. I do my fair share of airport whining (why the wait, why?) but I have to admit that the joys that come with discovering new places is well worth all my gripes about flying. When I was younger, I was convinced that I wanted to work for the travel channel and I think the summer has shown that perhaps my 15-year-old self wasn't so far off the mark.
I was in Eastern Europe recently with a bunch of friends and someone said over a meal that when you travel, you tend to forget how the places look after awhile but you'll always remember how they made you feel - and I thought he got it absolutely spot on. It's also probably why I always find that pictures never tell the complete story. Still, you'll find some links to my travel albums and hopefully you'll get some idea of how in awe I was standing in a ferry at the bottom of the Niagara Falls or how the sight of the Danube River at night just swept me off my feet.
I've got my feet planted firmly on English soil for now, but it won't be long before I'll be off on more adventures and I simply cannot wait.
Prague and Budapest 
The Things in Boston and Niagara Falls 
The Things, living it up in New York 
The Things in Philly 
The Things take on Florida and Washington DC
Monday, 16 May 2011
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I thought I had to have this in writing:
My first exam-less birthday in 16 years.
Life is good
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