Green and Blacks

Moving into a different house on a different continent is not all that straight forward. It seems like everywhere I turn there is something else that needs to be set up. Trying to imagine life without the net would be difficult, we wouldn't have phone, direct debit, a Rover 45, car insurance, a NI number appointment, etc... Mind you it did take a total of 4 hours or so to get everything correct with phone and internet, but wow was it worth talking to Amir in Calcutta for over an hour last week. (he is a nice guy and knew his stuff) I need to ring the council later this afternoon, I'm not sure what for but I was told you have to access the council or they'll find you, I assume they'll hunt me down for a tax or something, or maybe just a neigbourly cup of tea. It's probably like going to the Post Office in early October to pay a tax on the car, not sure why the post office cares about my car, but the Royal Mail does do a bang up job, even though it freaks us out everytime something gets pushed through the letter box. I think I've wrapped my mind around putting the black wheelie (official name) by the curb on Fridays and the green and black wheelies every other Friday, I suppose I can remember that by buying a green and blacks every other Friday (for those of you who don't know they are killer chocolate bars and even better milkshake flavours in Oxford) This is some the set up we've had to do, the list I have still includes setting up online banking, paying my broadband cause we can't afford to lose that, once again looking through the Argos catalog, you'd think I'd memorized some pages already and deciding which garden shed to get at Homebase. I like you never thought we'd be buying a garden shed but there you have it. Our upstairs bedrooms still look as though we moved in yesterday not last Tuesday, but downstairs is coming along quite nicely thank-you, and by this Friday provided we can find parking in Basingstoke we will have outfitted most of our house. All is contingent on finding Wilkinson's, Sainsbury's etc... without the help of a SatNav (I'm not one quite yet:) or having a local riding along with us. Watch out on the roads around 11 if you're from around here, the Robinson's will out and about, not exactly knowing where we are going or how to get there.