All change!

[andygates]

Sam's accepted a job offer up in Scotland with SEPA doing EPO things. This is good: it's her ideal career (unless there are openings for Lara Croft / Aeon flux-esque eco-ninjas) and all that. But it means that Chez Ravenfamily is going to be no more. The spooky stuff has all played out and the River Cottage schtick never really got going.

I've got a couple of months to find a place, which is pretty easy. Luckily I just got a fat bung from the folks which will go toward a letting deposit... well, the bit I didn't squander needlessly on a flash digi camera, at any rate.

So I need to find somewhere either rural or central (I hate hate hate suburbia) that is cheap and will take cats (really, properly, written-in-the-contract take cats, after the last contract debacle). The hippy commune in Morchard Bishop is on the list despite their scary composting loo. And I will probably need to junk, give away, sell and put into storage some of the frankly mindboggling array of tat I've acquired. How can one person end up with so many jam-jars of bolts?

Long term, who knows? Might even move back to Bristol. The job is easy and good here, but the job isn't everything.

Comments

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Not tempted to go to Scotland then? I might be... though clearly we would miss you even more.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Glenrothes? Hmm, maybe not. The time is right for a natural parting, anyway. And I've mailed the local commune :)

[spike150.livejournal.com]

does this hippy commune have broadband?

I mean, you've got to make sure the *essentials* are covered, right?

[skean.livejournal.com]

Wi-Max no doubt.

Plus the solar panel backpack charger for your laptop/ipod/mobile

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Nah, they've got a proper windmill for that :)

[arabis.livejournal.com]

*Chortle*

[inkyann.livejournal.com]

Yay, all change chez Gates then. Let us know when you're next in the area and we'll have a coffee and a good old gossip...