Boring administrative/social
So, London is great, and full of exhibitions and squirrels and tubewalks and people pointing at things and playing board games with me. Unfortunately somebody suggested to our delightful but impetuous housemate verlaine that he move to Canada, and the next thing we knew he was dancing on the kitchen table wrapped in a Canadian flag and singing their national anthem (technically it was "America the Beautiful" with the word "Canada" replacing "America" throughout, but nobody knows the Canadian national anthem, and it's the same accent, so never mind). We managed to coax him down with biscuits, but the next day even that wouldn't work - he refused to eat anything unless we drizzled it with maple syrup first. The upshot of this is that he's moving and we have a spare room as of late February. Do you want to live in it?

We're in Battersea, on a friendly Zone 2 council estate so central that we can all but fly our kite over Battersea Park from the verandah. Ten-minute bus ride to Vauxhall or Clapham Junction, neighbouring train station seven minutes walk away, forty minutes walk or ten minutes by bus to Victoria. The room's smallish, but for £300-ish a month including bills (probably increasing to £325ish in an April rent hike), what can you expect? People in the midlands can shut up about their £250pcm six-bedroom detached houses with study, garage and butler, thank you very much. You shouldn't live in the midlands anyway, you should live with me (I'm lovely), kevandotorg (he's also lovely), and the_alchemist (again, lovely, and also she has a Wii). Frequent views of squirrels from the largeish living room, charming housemates with nice hair, fire escape, verandah, etc. Available pretty much any time from late February onwards, though to some extent the sooner the better.


If you don't actually want to live here, d'you want to visit and play board games with me instead? I can't stand parties, but I keep envying other people's excuses to wear costumes. The solution to this may be a monthly board-game group where each month we play board games based on a different theme (Ancient Rome, food, bean-farming, etc), and possibly wear costumes related to the theme. And eat cake related to the theme (this would be particularly easy for the "food" month). Does this sound like a good idea? What if you didn't have to wear a costume? Would you come to Battersea for it, and if so, what sort of time would be best - a weekend afternoon, an evening?