On Friday, after a very tiring week, I came home to find Mark telling me that our boiler wasn't working because it was showing a "low pressure" light. We weren't aware of any leaks this time but weren't sure what to do. I shot our landlords an e-mail but we spent the weekend being cold ( Read more... )

For the first time since 2009 I spent Christmas in Austria with my family, and Mark came along for the ride.

( Here's what happened )

When I traipsed through the hallway on Monday morning, I stepped into something wet. I asked Mark if he had noticed or done anything that could have caused said wet patch, but his answer was negative. We were mildly intrigued but it didn't seem immediately worrying, so we went to work as normal ( Read more... )

I visited my Mum last week, without Mark this time. (He was still working; after this week he gets six weeks off from school. Grrr, teachers.)

Stuff I did during my week-long holiday, mostly from the travelogue I kept on my USB stick:

( Cut for a bit of length, though not very much. )

Last Saturday Mark's brother James and his long-time girlfriend Nienke got married. Mark and I attended of course, though we felt a bit like party poopers, arrivingly only shortly before the ceremony and leaving immediately after the wedding breakfast. Sadly we were somewhat limited by only having the one day to dedicate to the wedding, which meant ( Read more... )

I'm super excited, even though it was "only" the local election, not the general one (since I'm not a British citizen and may well never be, seeing how Austria doesn't allow dual citizenship). It also feels vaguely appropriate that I'm posting this almost exactly a year after my post about never having voted in the UK (and why)It helped that one of ( Read more... )

Today someone came by to take readings for an Energy Performance Certificate, something that the landlord/letting agency had apparently failed to acquire previously ( Read more... )

On Saturday Mark and I spent several hours stuffing things into bags and finally moving across the road "properly". Before that, there had been another couple of interesting interludes related to moving, such as another table that needed its legs taken off and a visit from a BT engineer that never actually happened, but in the end we got through it ( Read more... )

On Thursday Mark and I attended his grandmother's funeral. It felt like a very long day, what with having to go all the way down to Dorset and back on the same day ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening we got the keys to our new flat. It was... weird ( Read more... )