So, Blackwells' had A Tangle of Magicks!

[shweta_narayan]

Not in YA, which is where I saw it shelved in the US, so I'm glad I checked 9-12 too. Makes much more sense to be there, of course, since Kat is 12.

So anyway, I hung out in the Blackwell's cafe while elsmi was busy, reading and giggling out loud and doubtless drawing some looks; but I couldn't attend to them, because oh my, have Kat and her siblings

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[sartorias]

Do posts mean more brane? I selfishly really, really need some Shweta-brain on current p. Oh, so desperately--I am so afraid I'm fumbling into colonial POV hell.

[shweta_narayan]

oh dear. I want to be braining enough to help with that! I could definitely *talk* about it at some point soon I think...

But right now more posts just mean I'm babbly, I'm afraid. This is the had-to-use-rescue-inhalor babbly that precedes faceplanting; it's great to have no smoking on the buses, but when plenty of people put the cigarettes out 2 seconds before they get on the bus, it doesn't actually help me. So, not up to reading more than short snippets of anything over MG/young-YA right now (which is why I was extra-excited to find Kat #2).

Though I got to read Blood Spirits on the train ride, and loved it :) So I am *overall* up to reading, it's just the house hunt and requires bus rides are knocking me flat.

[sartorias]

Totally understood--and thanks! :-)

[shweta_narayan]

yes!

I finished #2. Now I want #3. Sigh. My life it is so hard :D

[la_marquise_de_]

Dryers are less common over here, not least because a lot of houses and flats have quite small kitchens and they take up space. You can buy combined washer-dryers, though.

[shweta_narayan]

Yes, but if we're renting a place with a washer, where would we put a washer-dryer?

[la_marquise_de_]

You might be able to persuade the landlord to let you install yours in place of the one provided. I've managed similar things in the past.

[la_marquise_de_]

In particular, tell them about the medical aspect.

[marydell]

Putting a box fan to blow on the line drying stuff worked well for me in my dryerless days, and I'm hideously mildew allergic myself. Getting one of those zig zaggy towers-of-dowels and putting the fan to blow through it from one end, and then turning it around to blow through the other end is one way

[shweta_narayan]

We don't necessarily get to pick, is the thing; these flats come with a washer already there taking up all available space, and there's nowhere to put a washer-dryer. Though apparently one can get small dryers...

I'm most worried about towels and linen; they take long enough to dry that even with a good setup they're likely to get that tiny bit musty. Which is too musty for me :(

[marydell]

Ah, right, hmm. Do people do drop-off laundry over there? Not sure how affordable it would be but around here the dry cleaning places also do laundry by the pound - wash, dry, fold.

[shweta_narayan]

Perhaps? But hypoallergenic, scent-free laundry? I highly doubt. There's like ONE brand of scent-free detergent at any given larger shop we've seen here. And scented tissues are not marked to let one know they are; they're a default.

This place and scents *argh flail gah*

[stephanieburgis]

I just wanted to say how very happy this entry made me. THANK YOU!

And ohhh, crossing fingers so hard that you can find a housing possibility that works.