{"id":3239,"date":"2019-03-23T21:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2019-06-05T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:48:18","slug":"a-flat-must-have-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"A Flat Must Have A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, the best I&#8217;ve got is &#8220;The Winchester&#8221;, for the Shaun Of The Dead reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shaun-of-the-dead-winchester.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shaun-of-the-dead-winchester.jpg 393w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shaun-of-the-dead-winchester-131x150.jpg 131w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shaun-of-the-dead-winchester-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backing up slightly; After almost two years living in a rented room in a place with cats who I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all sick of hearing about, I&#8217;m moving to a ( rented ) place of my own, closer to work.<br>Much closer.<br>Like, across the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, it&#8217;s right next door to the company flat I stayed in for a month when I first started the job, so there&#8217;s at least a chance that I can pick up the wifi through the wall, assuming the password hasn&#8217;t changed in two years.<br><em>( I mean, it&#8217;d be funny, but that feels like cheating, mostly because it is. Also, I have a crapload of mobile data )<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New place is a studio, unfurnished, so I&#8217;ll need to get furniture, which will be the first big serious not-easy-to-move thing I&#8217;ve bought here, so the whole thing does have a certain air of permanence to it.<br>Or at least more permanence than a one-month notice period on a handshake tenancy of a furnished room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1012\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-1024x1012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-1024x1012.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-150x148.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-768x759.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Winchester-Floor-Plan-500x494.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Looks like this, though with less image manipulation, but more laminate flooring.<br>The furniture layout suggestion is a nice touch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First-ish order of business is going to be rigging a blackout curtain or something in that gap between &#8216;Bedroom One&#8217; and the lounge.<br>There&#8217;s a curtain rail, but it was clearly put up by an idiot, and I wouldn&#8217;t trust it to hold a cobweb.<br><br><em>I did have the idea that I could get a tall bookcase, put it on those roller things they use for moving appliances &amp; heavy furniture, and have a sliding bookcase which could simultaneously block the light and allow me to pretend that I have a secret room in my apartment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the best I&#8217;ve got is &#8220;The Winchester&#8221;, for the Shaun Of The Dead reference. 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