Progress with move

[mtbc]

We have now moved in to our converted flat in the heart of Glasgow, we stop back in Aberdeen this coming Sunday to finish cleaning the rented flat there. A few appliances, etc., seem to need repair or replacement so we are working through those, unfortunately the market is buoyant enough that there isn't adequate opportunity to inspect fully in advance, but that's all quite manageable.

More awkwardly, our normal walking around on our mostly laminated floors apparently seems a terrible imposition on the neighbour below. I'm switching to very soft-soled slippers and we're putting some thick rugs down but ultimately we don't have the money to re-floor the whole place and don't yet have the skills to levitate like the Strangers in Dark City (1998). Ultimately, it's not we who decided to move to a converted flat below another, they're not known to be the quietest, and the ceilings are high enough that they could put in a suspended one if they needed to.

The move went well, especially given that everything fit into the van, and the van fit into the car park below, and it was great to get to drive manual transmission again. The weather largely smiled on us when convenient, at least sufficiently. The window ahead of my desk here features a major intersection so I sometimes get to hear the sirens of emergency vehicles or the complaints of drivers annoyed with each other. Still, it's nice having the motorway so close at hand, we can easily visit IKEA and suchlike for furnishing our flat. There is also plenty within an easy walk, including a nearby Asian supermarket.

There is much on our to-do list, ranging from address changes to furniture assembly. However, I very much look forward to some quieter evenings and weekends in the longer term. We have had the viewings, the purchase, the move, now the setup, and I am ready for something of a break.

Comments

[vyvyanx]

Well done! Hopefully the rugs etc. will help with your sensitive neighbour. I used to live in a ground-floor rental place beneath some very sensitive (and antisocial) neighbours, who would complain if we talked or watched TV after 10pm, but also constantly put junk down their sink so that the drain outside our back door blocked and water sat against our wall, causing dreadful damp and mould problems.

[mtbc]

The rugs are now mostly down and the soft-soled slippers turn out to be amazingly quiet, will be very handy if I want to train as a ninja or somesuch, haven't heard anything further from them so, with luck, the rugs, etc. helped enough and/or they've figured things aren't getting much better.