This entry is costing me a ridiculous amount of money to submit – a hot chocolate and Wi-Fi access at Starbucks doesn’t come cheap! We haven’t been able to get broadband activated at our new house yet, so I am frantically trying to cram in all of my web browsing in a very short and expensive space of time.

All of our worldly possessions were delivered to the new house on Tuesday morning, and we have spent the last few days trying to empty boxes and get our lives in some kind of order. We have finally organised most of the rooms except for a spare bedroom that is currently home to 15 or so large boxes full of stuff we obviously don’t really need but can’t bare to throw away.

Our Sky installation was cancelled this week as our house is too high for a standard installation (although I did mention it was 3 storeys before). So we are without the delights of satellite television until next week, although we have a fairly good digital terrestrial reception using an indoor aerial that Bloor’s sales office kindly lent us. The other complication is that the electrician hasn’t installed enough cables to the lounge – it should have two for Sky and one for a TV aerial, but only has two connections in total. They are going around retro-fitting each house with the additional cable, but with quite considerable difficulty and disruption – the walls have to be cut open all the way down from the loft to the ground floor, as well as carpets pulled up and holes cut in floor boards. After seeing the mess that was left at our next door neighbour’s house we are considering sticking with the two cables to avoid the additional stress. Two cables will be enough for our Sky HD installation and we could always use an internal aerial if we ever decided that we really wanted terrestrial TV in the lounge too.

Anyway, I submitted my snag list yesterday with a total of 255 items. I’ll let you know how long it takes for them all to be addressed.

My hot chocolate is finished and my BT Openzone credit is done, so I will get this submitted and then head out to buy more knick-knacks for the house. Oh, what joy.