Penultimate day in London Town!

Today we completely packed up the flat, all in boxes now with Post-Its everywhere ready for the parents to collect. The kitchen took the longest, we have the tiniest kitchen ever but somehow it held the most 'stuff'!

Went to the Breakfast Club in Hoxton for lunch, well more like breakfast, preparing our stomachs for the US portions, lashings of french toast, pancakes, bacon and banana! Then spent some precious hours, that went far too fast with Kate Hanna.

This blog post is for her,

'There once was a girl called Kate,
And she was a brilliant mate,
she's from the land of  Koala's
her 'tilts' make you holla, (oooh can we get away with that god-awful rhyme!?)
and there is always some cheese on her plate.


Gonna miss you, because of you, we know that; snakes don't just wander the streets in Australia, we know what a singlet is, London's ballet technique/flexibility is rubbish, fairy bread isn't just bread with wings, how to say 'a lego house' in a fake aussie accent, Snog is rather tasty, we can watch free online movies and finally that we will make sure we eat and sleep on the plane to NY rather than nearly passing out in Starbucks!

See you in NY, but were gonna stalk you for the rest of your life :) Hugs, snogs, loves xxxx

The End of Day 3!

Wow what a day its been....Let's start from the beginning of the day.From the previous post as "Done. Thank Goodness" I patiently waited at the Bank for an advisor from 9.20 and left at 11.20, and I say patiently rightly as the other customers waiting alongside me were getting stroppy after a while, however I came out of the bank successful with a letter from the bank, (thank heavens or Rosina would have hung me alive) charmed my way through it with my youth, and she kept saying that it was against her policy of the bank but she felt compassionate for me and granted my request.

So that was the morning called for, this afternoon our mission was to load our Caxton Cards with some dollars for us to play with in our first week and once my new address was accepted (which actioned really quickly I have to add!) we were onto the next job- tackily the bedroom and storage cupboard (eek!) so we've managed to find even more ikea bags hidden away in our flat for our unwanted clothes (that we don't want to take to NY but don't want to throw away) packed up the decorative items and the "Chaplin Gang" ("Who are having a great chat in the wardrobe"-Rosina).

Here's to tomorrow, for our final day of packing and maybe a cheeky lunch out in Hoxton!!

Sam

Done. Thank goodness!


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Location:Sorted

3 days and SILLY SAM!!!

Money has been the biggest challenge in planning this trip...and oh no, it's not stopped yet.

Bank charges, wiring charges, commission charges added up so we decided to go with a Currency MasterCard. Perfect. However not when you set it up with an address that your moving out from.

I am currently waiting in
Angel outside Barclays for Sam whilst he attempts to get a letter with his home address on...oh wait no not his home...my MK home, just to confuse matters even more! The bank says he can order a statement and it arrive middle of next week...not much good when we need it now...the currency card won't allow money onto it until he has correlating address' (fair point really)...and we have one day of bank opening hours until we leave...it's minorly fraught here in London...never mind the fact that still notion in the house is packed or cleaned...!!!

No fear, seeing a "paul matthew international" set truck drive past to go to Saddlers Wells cheered me up!!




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4 days

Took a break today, went to ballet class and then to see "The Inbetweeners" with our bestie Kate E Hanna!




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5days

So the packing began at 10am, today's task was to pack the clothes we wanted to take...

Where to start!!! We ended up packing and unpacking our three large planned cases five times, ending up with a pile the size of primark of clothes that originally made the cut and in the end ended up being ditched. After numerous tantrums by Rosina, a very aching back and knees after bending over for 10 hours, four cases were finally packed. Not overflowing of course for ease of wheeling (and also new York shopping :p).





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6 days…the packing up of the flat begins

Watch Sooty moving house!