Author: Rob

You know that they never made a Carry on Moving, right? Well I have an entire script based on the events of the last week. The moving firm chosen to transport our furniture the four hour (for a removal van) drive from London to Liverpool took six days to do it. They couldn’t even narrow it down to an exact day, no matter how many times they were called.

Add to this the fact that when they turned up they had made the most unexplainable pooch screw going, in forgetting the matress for our bed. This will be here on Saturday, we are promised. By that time it will have taken the matress nine days to take a four hour trip. The mind boggles.

Fortunately, everything else is going rather well – Wipeout Fusion launched in Europe this week and it’s been quite an exciting time at work. The best bit was the fact that I got a limited edition copy of the game, which is nice! Sadly I’ve been playing a pre-release version in the office, so I’ve completed quite a bit of it already. I’ll have to unpack over the weekend instead of playing it from the comfort of my new home, too. The best things come to those who wait… if the advertising is to be believed.

As Fridays go, this one started off great – we got a free preview screening of Monsters Inc. this morning and it’s a really great movie. Pixar just seem to get better and better – try and catch it if you can.

Well, it’s done and dusted – the London chapter is finally over. Today the removal van collected all of the stuff from the flat down there and should deliver it up here in Liverpool within the next few days. Hopefully.

It feels a bit weird that after two years down in the big smoke, I actually left in kind of a hurry. I’d got round to feeling that London was home, however temporarily – it just turned out that it was more temporary than I expected.

It’s like a few years ago when I good friend announced he was off to the ‘States for a while and we were all meant to go to the pub the night before he left. I think I turned up late for whatever reason and only got to see him for a short while. It wasn’t until a week or two later when I thought to myself that I hadn’t said goodbye properly. It brought back all the times we’d gone out or played footie in the park and I missed that more than I thought I would. It feels a bit like that with London.

Coincidentally the same friend is one of those I’m leaving behind in London – along with my cousin and a few other folk who I’ve come to play footie with in Hyde Park. And, to be honest, I was quite fond of the flat in South Ealing, too – all of the friends mentioned above were in close proximity and the surrounding area was quite nice compared to the other places I’d stayed in London. Heck, even walking through the cemetry didn’t seem so bad after I’d done it for a month or so. And the Corriander Leaf – man, that was a good Indian restraunt!

Ah well, onwards and upwards I suppose – I’ll be up for another night out in Liverpool later this evening. My cousin is on the train up here now, along with my girlfriend, so at least I’ll have some semblance of continuity in my life for the first time in weeks. By the end of next week I’ll have the furniture where it should be and most of the stuff unpacked… should be settled in by the end of the month.

In no time at all I’ll be ready to do it all again when our time is up in this flat.

Well, after a week in Liverpool I can honestly say it’s been quite good fun so far. The job has been going pretty smoothly – looks like it’ll be good hard work in the next few months, but I’m looking forward to doing something I’m pretty interested in, for a change.

So far I’ve managed to avoid “Cockburn’s Syndrome” – where you leave a job and your previous employers suddenly realise you’re invaluable before swamping you with phone calls and unwanted hassle. In fact, it’s a little too quiet – I hadn’t realised I made such a good job of the Intranet at my old place!

Anyhow, I’ve found a nice flat here in Liverpool which should do for six months or so until we find somewhere more permanent. I’m getting a bit sick of moving around all over the place. A couple of years of stability would do nicely, I believe – I’m not sure my computer desk will handle another move, never mind me.