What’s the Story Now?

It’s official, I am a Londoner now, and my blog title makes no sense anymore really. The photo on the front is of the harbour in Cobh, not the River Lee as it used to be, and I no longer live on the banks of the Lee. I’m a lie, a sham, a fraud. I just don’t think that Thoughts of a Cork Girl Living in London Story has the same ring to it. I’d rather be a fraud than a losebag. And so, the blog stays. Except I will be posting from London now. You have been told.

I just got here this morning and was greeted by blues skies sunshine and friendly birds. In case there was any fear I had stepped into a Disney movie, these birds were big old pigeons and the signs explicitly stated that I was not to feed the little buggers. 

The area of Hackney where I am living is food heaven. There are (cheap) Turkish restaurants everywhere and if you stroll a few more minutes down the road there are Vietnamese restaurants everywhere. The best fish and chip shop in all the borough is around the corner, and there is a market that sells all sorts of fruit and veg. on Thursdays and Fridays. Anyone who knows of my love for food will understand how happy all of this is maikng me.

In terms of the house itself, the plasterers have been in and are supposed to be gone by now, but they still haven’t finished. Consequently I haven’t been able to fully move into my room yet, but it is the first one to be done and until then I’ve been given a temporary room, so I’m happy enough. Just a bit of suitcase living until the place is painted. It will be nice though having a nice, clean freshly decorated room. And I  found a shop that only sells things for 98p down the road, so i’m going to furnish it almost exclusively with things from there. Classy, like. Oh, and there is an Argos across the road for all my flatpacking needs.

So other than that, it’s all bout settling in, looking around and enjoying the city until I start college next week. You could say the world is my Oystercard. (badum-cha!)…I’ll get my coat.