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Monthly Archives: September 2009

I need a bike!

Monday, September 28, 2009

I left my house early this morning to go to school - not that classes have started or anything, in fact I’m not supposed to enrol until tomorrow - but there were free yoga classes at the Institute of Education, so I decided to go to the 9 am one.  My commute - 4.8 miles [...]

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Flat hunting success! and coping strategies

Friday, September 25, 2009

This’ll be a brief post, since I’m internetless and reliant on the library for the moment. Anyway, I found a nice flat in Stoke Newington and moved in on Tuesday. A few thins that still need to be taken care of are all the utilities, and a good chunk of the furnishing. Utilities are almost [...]

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Lost in London

Sunday, September 13, 2009

I arrived in London on Wednesday the 9th, and have been pretty busy since then.
One dilemma that newcomers can face is finding a flat and a bank account.  A lot of people may find they need one to get the other.  I popped into HSBC and found it fairly easy to get an account there [...]

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A week of lasts

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Good news, the visas have landed! I got an email last Tuesday saying that they’d been issued, and they were delivered two days later. Very happy news.
So that kicked off a week of frantic activity - booking flights, packing, getting rid of more things, putting more things in storage, and so on.
It’s also [...]

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