Its moving day
Armed with a bag of bubble wrap, sellotape, and the bare necessities I made my way to London Paddington to start my journey over and beyond. Of course its London, nearly rush hour madness and fighting my way through the crowd was like a Leeky on an assigned mission :p. That mission was moving day! Of course its one of the hottest weeks of the year so far and I am melting in my seat, trying not to cause a puddle from my sprint and the heat from the train. Its no surprise no-one chose to sit next to me!
Yup its that time of year again when everything has to be packed up, shipped into bags, cardboard boxes and rehoused to a new home. Moving day. In true Leeky style these two days did not go without a few classic moments giggles and yummy food. Firstly the landlord... is a completely disorganised and the most bonkers landlord ever, that is indeed politely putting it!! Not only does he surprise his tenants With
“You need to leave tomorrow by 12 noon” the day before I mean really!! but also the house has to be spotless.
Panic stations everyone! Why do they do this !! As super efficient leeky we are, we had part one of the room, packed cleaned in every single nook and cranny by 6pm. This did include lots of jigging to old school Sean da Paul and T-pain and a few borrowed fruit boxes from the newsagent down the road. Who, Im sure was only too pleased that I should take the boxes off his hands. After 7 we had one car load done and dusted dropped off and sorted.
Phew I think that calls for dinner don't you :D!?.
Where better than a scrummy meal at Wagamammas. Off we go windows down, breeze through the car and of course songs playing at top volume anyone would think we are a)on a road trip b)on holiday or c) ghetto which only makes me giggle more! After being seated at Wagamags and admiring the new menus and deciding on free green tea for drinks. We are greeted by a waitress to take our orders. I ask if one of the dishes is particularly spicy.
“Well..yes very hot! Very spicy !”
Okay maybe i’ll chose something else” my instant gut feeling telling me it wasn't good idea especially not when Im already super warm/melting.
“Oh no you should have it, we can alway change it later” said the waitress.
Before I could say no, I was convinced and agreed to have the super spicy dish. Oh dear what had I agreed to. After much Leeky chatter and giggles a spicy beef pork dish arrived both Leeky S and I look perplexed and say its not for us. Only the waitress had got it wrong and apparently this was now going to be Leeky S is dish. After being assured it was also very tasty, We knew this evening was going to be one of those evening. My dish arrived shortly after and I must say it looked and smelled amazing!!
One mouthful down,
”mm this is so yummy”
Two and the three I'm still okay and then the fourth mouthful and its suddenly so spicy!! All I could do was laugh of course I would have the spiciest dish on the menu and still plough through eating trying to keep a brave face.
I must say the one of the funniest line was: I have all sort of sh*&t going on here “ gesturing towards my face and exploding in a roar of laughter.
Its all down to that faithful rice. Could not have eaten it without the rice. It was so needed I had to order a second bowl. Which really confused the waitress and looked like I’d asked her to fly to the moon and back.
Around 8ish we left in search for ice-cream as my spicy burning mouth needed a cooling, going to our trusted shop we found amazing sugary twister (or sort of twister). This is when the giggling fit started and properly powered us to get back and start rearranging the furniture at 10pm at night. I only howl at the sight of a desk in the doorway and the only way out the room was to climb on top of zed desk.
I think at one point it all got to the bookshelf and wardrobe as re-arranging led to trapping Leeky S. The joys of moving late night while on a sugar high :p.
So much laughter it brought tears to our leeky eyes :D. After recovering from the furniture with a vengeance the room was back to its original layout without any broken bones, limbs or walls. Phew :D.
Definitely decided it was time for a leeky treat while all settled watching celebrity master-chef in pitch-black as the lights had been packed away lol.
Day 2-
The Sun was shining brightly in the sky-blue sky, its 8am and we are already melting estimated temperature to reach 30 degrees. Yikes. After having a hearty leeky breakfast we set to work attacking each room at a time using mountain fresh bleach. Wow it definitely was fresh and definitely smelt like bleach, after inhaling cleaning chemicals and feeling delirious a trip to the bottle bank was much needed. Although the mission of trying to find a home for a bike battery was not a success and caused more distress as it leaked on Leeky S beautiful top at its not even mid-day yet.
By 12 we had packed the car, for a second drop off, clean the house like its never been cleaned before, vacated the house and strolling to campus in the beautiful but warm sunshine. Our Leeky moving in mission was going all so well and too plan miracle :P, 4pm saw us unload into the new house all done and dusted by 5pm. Then the utter stickiness/tiredness kicked in and we wanted only to curl up in a ball and sleep for days. But as true leeky go we powered through.
After making a list of all the town essential off we stroll, going through down memory lane as we passed <3. We decided that eating two days in a row at Wagamamas wasn't so bad, plus free green tea and we couldn't possibly have the same waitress twice could we!? Oh yes we did.
Now she's decided to call us “Guys” every two minute I don't think there anything guys about us and was very touchy feely with the tabble next to us which only added to the hilariousness had to contain my laughter on several occasions. We did get what we ordered this time and had amble supply of green tea :D. Was truly a perfect way to end the leeky mission and what a laugh it was. I love that the quoted most stressful thing is moving and we did in Leeky style :p. Thank you for always putting a smile on my face and sharing golden leeky moments :D.