For me, this is quite a week for milestones
Five years ago tomorrow, I moved into a three-storey house in Crouch End that I was renting with the missus and some of our friends. Tomorrow, me and the missus are moving out into our own two-bedroom flat in Muswell Hill. It's like the end of one great adventure and the start of another.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 14:19, 40 replies)

Wow

(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 14:32, closed)

We clearly have very different definitions of 'great adventure'

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 14:35, closed)

Is this before or after you throw some old jewelry into a volcano?

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 14:43, closed)

One does not simply walk into Muswell Hill

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:49, closed)

Congratulations, it's lovely part of town
Have fun negotiating the road closures on and around Colney Hatch Lane (arrogantly assuming that's the bit you're moving to)...
(GonkHerder, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 14:55, closed)

Haha, yeah
Coppetts Road has been a bit of a life-saver this week
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:15, closed)

Haha, yeah

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:17, closed)

It'll continue to be a life saver
For the next couple of months: www.haringey.gov.uk/index/environment_and_transport/roadsandstreets/roadworks/muswell-hill-road-closures.htm
(GonkHerder, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 8:26, closed)

lol povvo midlife renter

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:00, closed)

Not any more :D

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:22, closed)

MONEY BAGS.

( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:10, closed)

Not any more :(

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:32, closed)

Let me get this right
You're celebrating spending the last 5 years of your life in a grotty house share in north London. How old are you?
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:14, closed)

Well "grotty" is relative
It's got three bathrooms for a start; I share the en suite with the missus so the other two have one apiece. It's not like we're wallowing in our own filth or anything :/
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:21, closed)

It's the start of a lot of
fucking painting.
(username failed moderation, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:30, closed)

The painting and tiling is mostly all done now
though the bathroom still needs a lot of work - I'll be shitting and showering at work from Wednesday to Friday this week it seems :(

Once that's done though I can get on with the important stuff - like digging a trench down to the shed in which I can lay power and internet cables :D :D :D
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:31, closed)

don't dig too deep though - fuck knows what could be buried and not marked anywhere. be on the safe side and hire one of those underground pipe and cable detectors - might save your life or prevent you putting a shovel into a shit filled sewer pipe!
have you laid any cables before? (and no, not the brown variety either!)
( Tesco Quality 60.825659, -0.788337, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 19:49, closed)

I think I should be ok - I'm going to pull them through under the decking
and then just bury them a few inches below the garden path so that I won't accidentally dig into them. When I laid the concrete for the shed foundation I included an L-bend waste pipe that I can feed them into so I can just drill a hole in the shed floor and have them running up the wall inside the lining to a couple of proper sockets - and I've already got an old laptop earmarked for a shed server :)

Then all I need is a beer fridge and an easy chair

[edit] I should mention a qualified electrician put the box on the back of the house for me, so if I do get stuck I'll ask him - he's already insisted that I use armoured trunking for the electricity (rather than the plastic pipes I'm pushing the cat-5 through)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:08, closed)

armoured cable is the ONLY way to go ... I've lost count of the number of times I've seen mice or rats with half a head missing cos they've chomped into a pvc t&e cable, or a network cable has been chewed through. the little fuckers must lost the taste of pvc!
( Tesco Quality 60.825659, -0.788337, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:43, closed)

Hm. I have some spare brass pipe that I'll use for the network cable under the decking then
if there's a place there'll be rats, it's there.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 2:01, closed)

'grats, best of luck!

Don't cheap out by omitting a lightning suppressing doohickey for when the network cable comes back into the house.)
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 22:33, closed)

Ooh, good point
*heads to the internet to acquire one*
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 2:01, closed)

Oh yeah.
We bought a new place about 6 months ago. One of the things I insisted on was my own playroom. I now have a 22' x 12' garage.

The carpet in there is better than the carpet on the landing, which annoys my Mrs somewhat.

Ref cables - my wifi works fine, and that's at least 50' from the router, across a garden. Do you really need cabling?
(username failed moderation, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 9:29, closed)

I've probably gone a bit overkill if I'm honest
but there are cat-5 sockets in the living room and the master bedroom and I had enough spare cable, plus I'm running power to it anyway, so I figured why not have a connection in the shed too?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 12:20, closed)

^this
There's that glorious few days (if you're lucky) in between owning the house and actually moving in that you can get a shitload of painting and decorating done.

Then you're in the place a year and fuck it, the kitchen still isn't finished. I'll do it this weekend. Honest.
( gone, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 9:19, closed)

Ignore the haters
Click
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:40, closed)

Can I have a click too, as you're up voting boring stories?
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( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 16:13, closed)

You get a comment
I'll think about the click
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 16:46, closed)

Congratulations.
Many years ago I lived in a flat on Queens Avenue* and really liked it. That was before the scuzziness of the broadway crept up to envelop us decent folk. Or our scuzziness crept down - I forget which. I also got married in St James, the big church at the other end of Muswell Hill Broadway - great church, not so great a marriage but don't let that put you off.

Best of luck!

*Incidentally, the white house on the opposite corner to Queens Avenue (used to be a doctor's surgery) is called Fairport and used to belong to the parents of one of the members of Fairport Convention (I think Richard Thompson) and was where they first got together to rehearse, hence the name. Apparently.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 15:42, closed)

I'm just getting to know the area but it seems really nice
Some of our friends from Crouch End have moved into the same street and our new neighbours are really lovely so it's not been half as bad as it could have been - they've been totally sanguine about the (quite major) work we've been doing to the place.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:17, closed)

Ah, croosh awned
I spent three years there in a one bed flat (it did have a roof terrace).

Hideously overpriced. And that's just the bakery.
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 18:28, closed)

Well yeah but there's a Wetherspoon's
and the Haringay Arms is a decent little boozer
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:17, closed)

There's a Wetherspoons opening in Muswell Hill soon...
In what used to be the old Express Dairy (more recently a rather uninspiring bar/club called The Village). They've been haggling with the NIMBYs about licence restrictions. I prefer the John Baird and The Woodman myself... Not tried the Haringey Arms, but it looks good when I go past on the bus.
(GonkHerder, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:37, closed)

The Spoons used to be an All Bar One
So perhaps the lesser of two evils. I used to go to the Queens and the Old Dairy, at the bottom of Crouch Hill. Haringay Arms was great too.
(Deskbound You insignificant speck of dust, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 10:50, closed)

congratulations
babies next
(well that went better than expected, Mon 29 Sep 2014, 20:03, closed)

word on the grapevine is that Muswell Hill is set to become the new Cricklewood

( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 9:16, closed)

I look forward to stories of your children/cats.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 12:04, closed)

The latter, I hope

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 12:20, closed)

They'll claw your face off if you try and insert a She-Ra numbered special edition into them.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:06, closed)

I'll bow to your experience on that one

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:47, closed)