Good news

Well, we're getting there with the new flat.

We moved in on Saturday after buddy Fanus helped us carry stuff over from the otherside of the dock to where we now reside here in Britannia Village, in our own little 2 bedroom apartment. Has a very nice lounge, cosy little kitchen (yes the subtext would be tiny there, but for two ppl who know their way around each other it's a perfect place) and two really nice bedrooms, with one bathroom and yes it does have a proper ( not like with previous flatshare) showerhead.

There were a few appliances missing and some crockery needed to be filled in, and thus we filled those gaps tonight by doing hopefully the biggest ( I surely don't wanna do more of those) shop at an ASDA store we've ever done.

Phone line and internet will hopefully get sorted out soon (phone line update is that BT technician will be here on Tuesday 5th of Sept to activate the line to the flat) and then we'll be home dry on our own inet, finally getting some bandwidth to download some nice things.

I bought storage router in the last week, and just waiting for the USB hdd caddies to arrive so that I can plug the 20GB notebook hdd that I'm borrowing from work into the caddy and plug that into the router, tried to share a USB memory stick over the network tonight and it works like a bomb, so can't see any reason why the hdd shouldn't work either :) Then it'll be some stress testing but after that we should be all sorted :)

Being a guy that likes to look forward into the future I've started looking at the prospecting property market in SA... my goodness, there are even some properties next to previous work that are going for R1.2m, for a tiny little place like that, and in Woodstock no less, dodge central. Can only but gasp at what the market is looking like at the moment. Had a look around Brackenfell (old home town) and in all honesty, I didn't know it was that... hair raising. It's a little bit worrying, because i'm not entirely sure how we'll be able to enter the market when we return end of next year to the beauty of Cape Town. Maybe a nice UK lotto won't hurt to much. But we'll see what we can do..hoping to get into some off-plan investments end of next year, but there are other avenues as well to explore. Before that though, there are a fair amount of debts to clear.

Hope all is well with those reading the blog. Promise to get some more words down a little more regularly soon, life just a tad hectic at the moment though.

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