Flatties

Hi everyone

Sorry it's been such a long time since I've blogged! November has been such a busy month. Some of the things keeping me busy...
- gigs at the Brixton Academy - JET and Wolfmother
- Birthday celebrations (for Alice), farewell parties (for Brad and JP - my flatties) and arrival greetings (for Melissa)
- Pampering and new hair, courtesy of the Marriot Hotel and Kim
- Shopping at Portobello Road markets, Notting Hill (I'm such a name dropper!)
- Tate Museum art gallery
- Drinking at my favourite drinking holes in Camden, Angel and Borough

Speaking of flatties, as Robert mentioned in his latest blog (which has no photos from the family day!!) I have created a new word. Flatties are the people with whom I share a council flat in Bermondsey. At the moment they are...

- Nicole
- Katy (English girl from Blackpool, north of Liverpool, who speaks funny, likes boy bands and gets drunk after 1 glass of wine - we love her!!)
- Amanda and Darren - Aussie and Kiwi couple who've just moved in (replacing Brad). He works in a bar, talks really slowly and is constantly watching the Ashes - I hate cricket!! And she is an umemployed make-up artist who eats more than anyone I've ever known. They are both really cool and good fun.
- Leonardo - gay, Brazilian journalist here studying English. Such a lovely guy, calls us darling and blows us kisses whenever he sees us. Desperately missing his boyfriend from home and is on the seek for some loving in London!
- JP is leaving today to be replaced with a brailian girl. We'll see what she's like tonight.
- Maria Pia - another brazilian girl, never home but when she is so is her tiny, computer game playing boyfriend. Kind of annoying.

We have a ball with our flatties, even when they are at fault, and to top things off our landlord, Rafael (I know it sounds like teenage mutant ninja turtles with leonardo and rafael!!), is hopeless and unresponsible but friendly most of the time. In the six months we've been living there, our plumbing has needed fixing a million times! Never quite manages to get fixed completely though!

An important thing to note about flatties is that they are constatnly changing. Nicole and I worked out the other day that we've lived with 10 people in our flat in just six months. Brad (funny Aussie guy who looks like Mr bean), Hana (goth, Englsih lesbian), Eduardo (spainish, gay, 19-year-old fashionista) and Marco (the hot Belgium workaholic) have all lived there too. We miss the old faltties sometimes too.

And while I'm reminising, I figured out that I've now been living in London for longer than I lived at Dulwich Hill! Scary thought, isn't it?

Lots of love xxx Kel