This is going to be a long couple of months

I am now moved into the father's place. It's weird. Right now I'm sitting in their living room; him and Kay are both at work, and there's the odd car going past, but most of what I can hear is the multitude of birds cheeping and singing. There are gold finches in the creepers outside the window, and swallows out the back, as well as all the stuff I'm used to at home, although fewer crows and wood pigeons. There are chicken and sheep in the field at the bottom of the garden, and over the road there are fields with more sheep and horses, and it's so bloody quiet. There's also a wasp nest in the roof above my room, which is doing my head in already (I hate wasps with a passion).

Currently I'm waiting for iTunes to finish processing all my music onto Nene. The one good thing about being here is that they have a shower, which is awesome. Home has only ever had a bath (which is one of the things that is being fixed during the work, I will have a shower).

I'm glad I can drive now though, as I really am out in the sticks here. No buses unless I walk a couple of villages over, and it is a bit of a trek to get to Northampton on foot from here, although I might try it one day, just to see.

The weekend was hectic; saturday was spent packing and then over to dave's for his birthday, and then sunday was LARPing. I have been bitten to hell by the bug population, to the extent that my forehead is just a mess of bites (totally normal, they seem to go for my forehead as it's usually one of the few bits uncovered) and I have one on my thigh that had swollen to a good three inches round (again, while it's never happened to me, mum was prone to reactions like that, and she was also always being bitten by things).

I'm watching the hoohah over some bloke buying up fan archives to make a profit and frowning. Fandom is amazingly closed ranks, and while yes, I can see that to an outsider, it may look like a cash opportunity, surely the people on the fannish side would have the sense to understand that fandom does not take kindly to that sort of thing?

Hmm, I've been up two hours already. If this trend continues (and it probably will, if only to avoid accusations of laziness) then it's going to be a long couple of months.

We popped round to the house yesterday (I'd left my calendar on the wall, and there were a couple of boxes of food that needed to be picked up) and the builders had already had all the cabinets and stuff off the walls of the kitchen, the sink was still in, but all the plaster had been stripped back to the brickwork, and in the bathroom, one of the walls had been completely stripped, and the airing cupboard was half dismantled. I have no idea what state the outhouse was in, but with the plaster gone, it was obvious how badly the back wall needs work doing to it.

And now I think for more tea, then it will be a bit of pootling about, then off to MK for LARP plotting and Unknown Armies this evening.