I'm Supposed To Be At A Wedding

Apparently, I'm supposed to be at at wedding... Right about now in fact! Which is the first I've heard of it...!

I got an SMS from an old friend saying "Are you the Paul J on the guest list at Craig's wedding? If so, where are you???"

I said "Criag's wedding is today??? Where is it???"

I had half a plan to jump into my car and race over to it... Except it's in Hamilton, a good three and a half drive from here. D'oh!

I'm almost 100% sure I never saw the invite, and I'm also more than 100% sure I never RSVPed. As far as I can recall, the last I heard about was Craig asking me for some of our old friend's email addresses etc. so he could invite them... That was at least three months ago. I see Craig about once every five years, so in fact I was surprised to be invited...

I was wondering why Doug (fellow old University chum) was in the country, I thought he was just here for the Summer break, from his current home in London. Now if only he'd said "Will I see you at Craig's wedding?" just once ;-)

So.... What wedding present says "I'm sorry I missed your wedding although in my defence I don't think I ever saw an invite!"

This is my place setting apparently:

(As MMSed to me by old friend Julie...)
I'm going to have to have a wedding and invite him to make up for it!

House Hunting: Eccentric and/or Unfinished

Looked at some more houses today. It's freaky the number of extremely shit houses which are out there which people are expected to rent! Today's bunch included... Er, well, I can't remember, they've all blended together...

We did look at one marvellously eccentric place in Northcote which was almost on High Street itself. It was... hard to describe. Officially it was on something called Easement Street. One wandered down a long laneway (hallway perhaps?) up some stairs and through a smallish courtyard type garden, and into the "house". It was kinda of on three levels, a large main area kitchen thing, a lower level with two bedrooms (well, kinda lower, it was was down some stairs about half the height of a floor - the main area was effectively half way between the other two, which filled the back of the building while the main area filled the front part... Look, it was really oddly shaped, ok???) which both had bathrooms. Upstairs - up a spiral staircase! - was a large room, built into the roof area, so it was kinda triangular with not much head space in parts.

Ah, look, lets just say it was somewhat interesting and eccentric and leave it at that. But we're kinda interesting and eccentric, so we seriously thought about applying. Here see for yourself. Oh, great location too, about twenty metres from the Northcote Social Club. Maybe if they're ask for slightly less rent and we can find someone to live in the attic-like room, we'll apply...

In fact we popped into the Northcote Social Club afterwards. It looks very odd in the daylight, I'm not used to it.

What else did we look at today... Oh yeah! The Un-finished town house in Brunswick. We should have guessed it was going to be Interesting when the ad on the website only had an "artists impression". There were painters and electricians all over the joint! The one of five we went into had no banisters, no light switches or power points, and no fittings in any of the bathrooms! We sort of had to guess what it was going to look like! Which was Generic Town House, and a little too small at that... Ah well, that was novel, climbing over the builders electrical cables to get to see a place. The Real Estate Lunatic told us they were supposed to be finished a month ago, so he wanted to show them anyway... Weird.

It's also looking like the only places that are any good are just a little bit more than I'd really like to be paying. It starts to get really uneconomical really quickly, which would kind of defeat the purpose of moving.... *sigh* will have to see how I'm going in a few months, if we don't find a place before I'm going OS....