A Room with a View...of Cabul Road

It is with great pleasure that I write this latest post from the lounge room of my new house on Cabul Road. As I sit here, with three of my other flatties (and one ex-dosser who's just hangin' out, but has brought his laptop nonetheless), all typing away on our lap tops, face-stalking, crap talking, and half watching pay TV, I just can't believe my luck. And I don't want to put the mocchas on or anything, but it all kind of feels like it was meant to be.

I realise that the title of this blog does in fact beg a photo of the view from the gable of the room that Caitlin and I are sharing, and I will most certainly post one soon, but I decided that this image was more appropriate.


For one, I love the keys- really old school, huh? But, in the second instance, see that key ring? Well, the other day when we were eating our penultimate meal at Edward's, a man walked up behind Caitlin (I saw him approach, but she did not), and startled her when he put that key ring and a little piece of paper next to her right elbow which read,

"I am a deaf mute, and find it very challenging to sustain long term employment. Please help my income by purchasing this keyring at a price of your discretion"

After the timid fellow put the little slip of paper down, he backed off shyly, and made his way around the pub, dropping off other little slips of paper and key rings on the other tables. We'd been knocking back other hawkers that had been coming into the pub, trying to flog off their pirated dvds and other assorted rubbish (not to mention that I never really felt comfortable at the 'Lentil as Anything' vegetarian restaurant on Sydney road, where you decide what you pay for your meal), but I liked his approach and product, and I knew that I'd need a key ring soon for our new house keys in a couple of days, and so I decided to fork out a couple of quid for the little gold heart. When he came back, I handed over my coins, and he gave me a grateful smile, and went about his business.

I popped the keyring into the side of my purse, and to be honest, forgot about it completely, until yesterday afternoon when the two gold keys were handed over to me when we arrived at our new dwelling. As soon as I saw the two gold keys, I remembered the golden heart, and attached it straight away to the keys- and I guess that was the moment when I realised my key ring matched my new keys, and indeed the planets had aligned....ahhhhhhhhhh.

You're proabably thinking that I'm over tired and that I really should go and get some more sleep, but you also know I'm a hopeless romatic, who really likes it when things all come together in the end, after the many near misses and close escapes life throws you, and if you're bothered with reading my blog, then I'm guessing you do too :)

That is all.