expanded to cover all available free time last week. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you. On Wednesday we ate a shitload of curry and drank too much beer; on Friday Josh and Devon hosted a murder mystery party at which I spoke in an Irish “accent” and drank too much wine, and yesterday the three amigos had a light 10-hour boozing session during which I drank too much of everything.
In between the drinking madness, I took Josh to the airport to pick up a parcel and stopped in at guitarguitar to test-drive one of these with a view to buying something like this. For a guitar that only costs £349 new, it was pretty bloody good. And helpfully, I can now play the bass well enough so that demoing one in the middle of a crowded shop is no longer the cringe-inducing stumble through a pathetically easy bass staple that it used to be. No, now I cringe-inducingly stumble through a pathetically easy bassline that I came up with.
(A workmate of mine, upon reading the RF – poor guy – opined that the tagline should be “Guitars, girls, drinking and hats”, instead of “Travels to the pub and back”, and to be fair, he’s right on the two least exciting points.)
Today, I went again to look at some flats. I saw a few nice ones, but of course, no flat is ever perfect. One of four things will be wrong with any given flat. It’ll be either:
- too expensive, or
- too small, or
- too far away, or
- above a fishmonger and you’ll like totally remember when your sister lived above a fishmonger in Marchmont and their flat completely smelt of fish the whole time
so you see my problem.
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I hate to be motherly (actually, I don’t, I revel in parental patronisation, but I shouldn’t, so I feel a little shame), but honestly: you would have an easier time with Flat Hunt Problem Number 1 if you would stop buying guitars. Even ones that are ‘cheap’ at less than £400. Seriously. Clue in.
If it’s any reassurance, I do plan to hold off buying anything big until after I get a flat.
Once that’s done, I’ll start on the essentials, like furniture, crockery and a 1969 Gibson EB3.
would have an easier time with Flat Hunt Problem Number 1 if you would stop buying guitars.Its because of that sort of anti-rock attitude that the world is in the state its in today. You can never have too many guitars. Fact.
;-)
Buy a house with a big garden. Then buy some chickens, a worm farm and some vegetable seedlings.
Within a month you’ll have your own ecosystem and an enormous sense of well-being.
Barbara and I are very happy.
You can be too!