Changing times

The past month has been a whirlwind of changes in our lives. We had to re-home our awesome wee kitties which was heartbreaking - but we are happy they will be well looked after. I still feel that they are around sometimes and get disappointed when I remember. It makes all the noises a flat makes more sinister, it can no longer be attributed to them. They will eventually get to be outside cats pretty much in the countryside so they are gonna have a ball, especially since they are all still so young.

We have now been living in London for nearly five weeks. The move here was an ordeal to say the least! Arrived about 10pm at night and we were still unloading the van until about midnight. When I settled down that night to go to sleep the room was spinning as if I had been on a massive bevy - I was just that tired. By that point I had almost been up for twenty four hours as I had got up super early to do the finishing cleaning to our flat in Scotland. The bums of a letting agent still took money off of our deposit after we gave the flat a massive deep clean (it honestly had never been that clean as
it was when we left it). To make matters worse our new flat was in a right state when we first moved in. Pretty dirty and with a shoddy paint job so took us (James was mostly on painting duty) a good amount of time before we actually felt we lived here. It now feels pretty cosy (it has it's bad points but we are pretty happy with our wee flat). James has done a great job putting it together.

We have managed, in amongst all the stress, to get out and have a good time. We visited a vintage car car-boot sale! It was really cool, we didn't buy anything but was nice to have a wonder and take some pictures.

I went to a knitting group in this awesome little deli. I must admit the location impressed me the most. It was like a little green oasis in a sea of concrete. Was pretty cool.

The picture doesn't do the fairy lights justice. I love plants and fairy lights! Shame I always manage to kill plants. At least the fairy lights are hard to kill! I also went to one of the events of wool week at John Lewis. I saw Erika Knight doing a scarf tutorial. It was so much fun. She seemed so happy to share her craft. She had been doing sessions all day yet was so taken with teaching that she went well over her time. I was late for meeting James because I was so caught up with what she was teaching. I shall have to keep my eyes open for more things like that.

We wandered round Brick lane and the surrounding areas. Had the most AMAZING pulled pork burger with spicy chips mmm hmm! I am still drooling over it weeks later!

Came across this cool little gallery as well and had to take a picture of this little guy:

James went to a fancy beard trimming place. Whilst he was getting man-pampered I sat in this cool little coffee shop trying to like coffee - failed! Look at the cool décor.

The coffee shops balloon lights were magical. I want some for my flat!

There's still so much to explore. I think we will have a great time living here but I just need to get used to work. It's always hard being new. Everyone is lovely but it's so frustrating not knowing what you are doing when you just wanna do your best. I'm a bit stressed about it all but just need to get through it until I get settled! Exciting weekend to come though - I have a free cycle safety lesson on sat haha! On Sunday we are going to the Renegade Craft Fair so excited. It looks like a collection of amazing stuff. Thank goodness I get paid on Friday. 

Bring on the weekend and escape from employment woes!