January 2012

I'm 6 months behind on the old blogging, and since probably no one reads these except for future me, I'm going to do the express version, without photos (they're all on Facebook anyway...). I may come back and put some on later.
After our disastrous New Years, 2012 got off to a great start. We had the laziest day ever on New Years Day,with no one even bothering to get out of their PJs. It was raining outside. Jen, Lou and I watched Pretty Woman, then Rob came down and we watched Mad Men. Claire, Andrew and Keren came over later and we got Wagamama in.
The next day was a bank holiday, so we got out and about. Rob and I went to see MI4 at the movies - it was pretty good.

We saw a flat advertised that looked worth viewing, so we went to see it on the Saturday and got on really well with the couple that we would be living with.
After our flat viewing, we went to the Victoria and Albert and the Science Museums. I had wanted to go to the Natural History Museum to see an exhibition but the line was massive. We went to see Goon at the movies which was quite funny but Rob hated it. On Sunday we went to Puss in Boots which was funnier and very cute.
Dan and Allison from the flat we had gone to view told us that we could move in, so we had to advertise our room as quickly as we could. After a few hassles and false starts we finally got a confirmed person to take our room. The following weekend I had to move at work, so spent the whole Sunday at work. On the Saturday we went for a nice long walk through Barnes Park and took photos of the frost on our phones. We went to see The Artist which ended up winning lots of awards.

We were due to move flats the following Sunday. On the Saturday the girls from work went to the Matthew Bourne interpretation of The Nutcracker. It was good - something a bit different. Rob and I had a birthday party to go to that night in Richmond, then we went to Adam's house party in Putney. It always seems to happen that you always have loads of things all at once!

Sunday we moved to our new flat. It went pretty smoothly, and we were thrilled with our new place. Jen and I made a deal that we would catch up regularly for Grey's Anatomy nights. I had a day off in lieu owed from moving day at work, so took it on Thursday to settle into our new place. It is lovely, with skylights in the roof and a balcony with a nice view over rooftops. It is very close to Westfield, and Hammersmith so ultra handy. Our room is very small though.

In the weekend we had visitors to see our new flat. Jen came round for dinner and Greys on Friday night, and Storm came round on Saturday and made us scones with jam and cream. The next day was Chinese New Year so we went into Chinatown to absorb the atmosphere and take some photos.