~just a whisper in the wind~

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Saturday 19th March is my Moving Day.

Which means, I’m about to turn my computer off, take it apart and pack it ready for the move tomorrow morning.

This means I’m not going to be online, for a couple days at most.

For those of you who have my Twitter, I’m still available there, as I have my phone set up on that :)

So, anyway, I’ll see y’all in a couple days :)

 Well! I'm moving on Saturday c.c 

I am getting out of this stinkhole of a house, and moving back in with my parents again for a couple months, until Rich and I find a place of our own in Swansea. 

I didn't get in to Swansea Met this time round, so it looks like Plan B is being put into operation - ie: Get a job that I can tolerate without going batshit insane and work on my artwork. 

Aaannnd I think that's about it for updates. 

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Getting more than a little sick of this house now.

Housemate and I currently rent a three-bed house in the ‘bad’ part of town. It’s an ‘unconventional build’, which means, in our case, that it ha no central heating. Like, AT ALL.

Added to that, the Landlord is a complete idiot. He built a utility room onto the side of the house, but instead of doing it properly, he just, sort of, basically, stuck a box made of plywood onto the side of the house. On a bed of concrete, which we can see, because he only partially laminated the floor and didn’t even stick anything between the concrete and the laminate.

When he did that, he supplied it with it’s own mains water supply, and then didn’t insulate the utility room, or the pipes.

We can tell he didn’t insulate it, because he didn’t finish the walls or the ceiling, and there are holes between the plywood wall and the brick wall it’s meant to be attached to. You can see daylight through them. You can feel the breeze through them.

So, Winter hits.

Because there is no central heating, we freeze. Literally. See-our-breath-misting-the-air freeze. INSIDE THE HOUSE.

Housemate and I have spent the last four+ months freezing our asses off.

Then the snow hits.

Because the Landlord is an idiot and didn’t insulate the utility room or the pipes into it, the utility room freezes. Literally. Walk-into-the-utility-and-be-surprised-there’s-no-icicles freeze.

Two weeks ago, the pipes cracked and broke. Housemate got soaked but managed to turn the water off. The Landlord’s handyman who came in to look said he needed a piece to fix it, and didn’t have it, so he’d come back in a week or so with it.

Last week, the pipes froze again and cracked and broke even worse.

We ended up with a lovely new water feature in the utility room. Literally.

The entire fucking utility room was flooded, my boyfriend and myself were drenched head to foot in attempts to turn it off. I ran down to the local handyman’s house down the street, still drenched head-to-foot in freezing cold water.

He comes in and discovers that what has burst, IS THE FUCKING MAINS WATER STOP PIPE. The actual pipe that you use to turn the water off, when there is a flood/burst, IS WHAT BURST.

Our friend the local handyman managed to get it turned off, by using a spanner to turn the taps further than they were physically meant to.

The next day, I manage to get a real Plumber in. He takes one look at it all and basically agrees that the Landlord is a complete idiot and that the entire thing is a botch job that needs replacing. Not fixing. Replacing.

He managed to get it all fixed, and even insulated the pipes, and told me he was going to write a report to the lettings agents about his thoughts on the Landlord’s botched attempt at plumbing.

NOW. I’m trying to do a simple bit of washing up, and the fucking water won’t heat.

To have any hot water in this house, we need to plan ahead. Half an hour before we want it, we need to climb into the cupboard under the stairs and turn the water-heater on. I turned the thing on almost an hour ago, and I am still getting cold water out of the hot tap.

I’m boiling water in the damn kettle to do the washing up. This is ridiculous.

On top of all this? I think the bathroom is making my asthma play up.

The extractor fan hasn’t worked since before we moved into this house. So, despite our leaving the bathroom window open whenever we shower/bathe, the bathroom has acted like a sauna and basically spread damp through every wall, and the ceiling and the floor.

The paint on the ceiling is flaking off like some scabby disease. The wallpaper is coming off the wall in strips, showing damp and mouldy plaster underneath and the floor is always, without fail, fucking freezing.

I swear that room is making the cold I am just getting over worse, as well as playing havoc with my asthma (which was mild before I moved into this house).

Overall, the house is shite. I mentioned the ‘unconventional build’ earlier? That means we have no central heating?

Well, in summer it was fine, the place kept us cool when it was too warm outside. But now in winter? We have been waking up of a morning able to watch our breath mist in our bedrooms. I go to bed every night and climb into a freezing cold bed and shiver myself to sleep, despite the ton of blankets I use as well as my duvet.

The only room in the house that is ever warm, is the livingroom. And then it’s only warm because it has a gas fire. A gas fire that we have to fight with to turn on in the first place. And these days we also have to fight with it to turn it off again at the end of the day.

This place is a fucking death trap. I hate it. I look forward to moving in March.

I got a 'decorate your own fairy' fairy doll in my stocking XD

It's taken me all day, off and on, but I finally finished it! It is various shades of pink and glitter and has been dubbed 'Fairy Eddie' by myself and Housemate XD

Other than the usual stocking stuff (lotsa silly stuff, plus scarf, gloves and socks) I got totally cool presents!

I got a camera! I FINALLY HAVE A NEW DIGITAL CAMERA XD

THIS MEANS I CAN SPAM YOU GAIS WITH PHOTOS AGAIN XD (yay, you're looking forward to that, right?)

Besides that, the other cool things:

ENORMOUS fan for hanging on the wall, with all Samurai masks painted on it

'The 10th Kingdom' dvd box set

'Going Postal' dvd

Limited Collector's Edition 'I Shall Wear Midnight' by Terry Pratchett

LaRoux, Eliza Doolittle and Labyrinth (soundtrack) cds XD

All is very good with the world XD

I am currently getting slightly merry on Apple&Elderflower wine XD

Ok, now I’m worrying that my Bachellor’s wont be enough to get me on the course.

I only got a ‘Pass’ on the damn course. Reason being? I missed two modules in my second year, due to illness, and never caught them up.

No-one at the university explained to me that if I didn’t make up the two modules I missed, I’d only get a pass-grade. So I blithely thought it would be fine.

Gods, I was such an idiot. People don’t understand precisely how much I regret that. I REALLY wish someone had explained it to me. It’s one of the biggest regrets of my life.

So, yeah I graduated, but I only graduated with a Pass.

Hopefully, my portfolio and extensive-as-I-can-make-it knowledge of various artistic techniques and media will help me get on the course. And hopefully my year of Self Employment as a Freelance Artist will also help. Maybe.

Hopefully my enthusiasm to pass on my knowledge and passion for the subject to the coming generations will help, too. Maybe?

Ugh. I’m just worrying my self into a big puddle of worryness.

An interesting read. Sounds intensive - and it looks like I may be eligible for a £4,000 teaching grant (because Art isn’t a core curriculumn subject; English, Math and Science, for instance, get’s a teaching grant of up to £9,000) which would be incredibly helpful.

I think I’m also eligible for the tuition fee loan of £3,000. Of course, I’d have to pay that back eventually (just as I still need to repay the £10,000+ I owe for the Bachellor’s Degree I earned a few years ago.)

There’s an ‘Open Day/Information Morning’ thing going on in the university on February 8th, specifically for prospective PGCE students. Looks like I’ll be going to that, then - luckily, my BF lives in Swansea, so I can impose myself upon his hospitality.

All I’m worrying about, really, is getting a cheap enough place to live in Swansea, a job to help pay for it and affording all the books and teaching equipment I’m going to need to buy. I have half a dozen teaching books on my Christmas list his year - so hopefully I’ll get a few of them, which will make it easier.

So… Back to the Flat and Job searching then.

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*ahem*

It snowed over night, and is still snowing.

I may be having a joygasm.

We had a damn fine Halloween weekend XD



Left to right: Rich, Linds, AJ, me, Mathew and Helen - Bayly was taing the photo XD

We started the weekend on Friday, by decorating like mad and then spending the evening carving many many pumpkins - 7 all told - which was hella fun XD Two of the pumpkins are effing huge, Bayly and Linds carved 'TRICK' into one and 'TREAT' into the other XD The other five pumpkins were the usual size, and we all had fun carving faces into them XD







My pumpkin and all the pumpkins lined up together XD

From left to right: AJ and Linds', mine, Bayly's and Rich's pumpkins XD

I collected the flesh and the seeds and plan to make soup with some roasted seeds :)

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The 'party' was a role-play party XD We all dressed up as our characters for it - I was the ghost of a murdered Flapper Girl with Mob connections, Rich was the ghost of a cop killed in the mid seventies, AJ was a rather insane vampire from the sixties, Helen and Mathew were werewolves from the late 21st century, Lindsey played two characters - a ghost of a woman murdered by her husband in the 18th century and a werewolf from the 21st century. Bayly was the GM and played the NPCs as well XD

It was a lot of fun XD


Rich and AJ in their costumes.


Bayly in his GM outfit XD


Helen as her slutty werewolf XD


Not the best photo, but me as my Flapper Girl character XD


Mathew as his rage filled alpha werewolf XD


There's no solo pictures of Lindsey, but here she is with Helen and Rich XD

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Loadsa nosh XD


Linds made loads and loads of cupcakes and coconut-cupcake-balls XD half the cupcakes had marzipan rainbows in them! NOM XD


And I made cookies XD Ghosts and bats! I roped Rich into helping me, he did his best cing the ghosts and then put eyes on the bats, and then I got AJ to put eyes on the ghosts for me XD

I'm SO getting some christmas cookie-cutters to make christmas cookies XD

Basically it was a fun couple days!

How was your Halloween?