Home

Today, after 4 years, I moved home from Nottingham for good.  Well, at least in terms of Uni.  I might find myself heading back sometime in a more permanent capacity should a number of pieces fall in the right places.

I've been at home with the stuff I actually need for a while now, but I think clearing out of uni for one last time holds some kind of significance.

I also massively underestimate the amount of rubbbbishhh I've harbored over the last four years and moved from house to house/left over summer after summer in a box under my bed.  This included a random top hat from a night out, some Thai sweets from a course mate, football stickers, and a whole other bunch of crap.

And this gem...

The absolute best chocolate in the world, that is inexplicably sold pretty much everywhere but the UK! A mixture of white and milk chocolate.  Perfection.  It's been done over here, blah blah blah.  Not like this! I lived off these in South Africa and bought a batch of them at the airport to bring home.  This is the last one, that somehow, wasn't eaten.  Hell, when I got home and tracked down the origins of these moments of absolute perfection, I found that there was 'Bring back Top Deck' facebook group.  If it's been to the UK already, I have missed out.  Sort it out Kraft, and push Top Deck.  It is the best. FACT.

I found a big box full of random sentimental things that I didn't want to see all the time, but didn't want to get rid of either, so there in there.  I found 6 cans of baked beans, and about 15 sachets of instant mash potato - which, may I add, is not even that instant.

It took me a long while to peel down all my newspaper cuttings off the wall, before making their debut in my home room here... presented in a new arty clever way.

Tahhh daaaa.  My wall/collage of happy memories.  Which is kinda cool.  And in no way reminiscent of an 8 year old worshiping his childhood heroes.

I've also started rebuilding the other content of my bedroom walls, to make it feel like home.

Various memories of various trips, games, events etc.  I've left a bit of space on the right of the two notice boards as the other one is a bit full now.  But that's something to aim for over the next year or two... to build it up with stuff.

This evening I finally got round to applying for a new loan to cover the one I've had for the last year which I soon will have to start paying back - and be stung by the silly 9.9% interest rates.  So fingers crossed I can pay that off and deal with a much more reasonable 6.9%, which is good.

Off to the Test Match tomorrow, so here's a song from the wee hours of a December morning when Sky put together one of their brilliant cricket montages after one of the Ashes Tests.

Cheers.