I went to the beach with the family yesterday! This was a fantastic idea, lots of dramatic weather, very very windy and surfy, leading to us seeing lots and lots of windsurfers. I’ll proceed to liberally scatter photos of same through the rest of this post…
I spent the morning playing with my new TomTom 520, a handy eBuyer misprice (which has now been corrected), so pretty cheap. I’m pleased with it – by fully updating it and using the latest maps guarantee to get the v8.10 map, it now has the IQ routes and advanced lane guidance, features that are the main selling point of the newer 530, which cost a lot more. I got a special business version, which includes a year’s speed camera updates for free, and another free map update over and above the latest maps guarantee. Doesn’t sound like much, but they usually charge £50 for a map update, so definitely a good thing to have! </geek>
The TomTom took us a great route down to West Wittering – we couldn’t be bothered with the A3, so recalculated the route and went via Petworth. There were all these pretty little villages and things to see – you could have spent a day on it, getting out to look at everything interesting, and I think my dad fully intends to do that!
I showed a few more people around this house in my hunt for a replacement tenant – and there have been lots of people interested. I think the landlord is now settled on one, so with any luck I’ll get my deposit and last 9 days rent back – should help with furniture buying! I’m also quite pleased because a tax rebate from last year that I applied for finally came through – I’d totally forgotten about it, and had the same pleasant sensation of finding £10 in a pocket that I didn’t know I had, but it was £850. Winner!
I’m now just counting down the days until the move… bought a fridge and booked the van this morning, it’s all really happening! This time next week I’ll be waking up in my own house! How very, very exciting. I’ll book in the housewarming with you all as soon as I know which weekends I’m working at Metro.
Right then, I think that’s all for now – I’m going to get back to my sorting and packing, you all have a great Sunday!
This is all so exciting!! We’ll have to come and visit
Yeah you will…
It’s quite a nice drive up, probably about 2 and a half hours at 60, so you could shave some off that (it was 3 from the metrocentre when I did it last week.)
I’ve bought a fridge all of my own, it’s very exciting!
Forgot to say – you should post your poem about the Tories.
Done and done.