We\u2019re moving today, so of course the lift is out and there\u2019s a heavy rain advisory for London and the South East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The removers arrived roughly on time, which was a bit surprising given London traffic at the best of times, never mind the rain. Four guys, and two trucks, just <\/em>narrow enough to fit into the parking courtyard at the \u2018old place.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n I warned them in advance that the lift was broken, they didn\u2019t seem too concerned. Nothing in this country actually works, and that doesn\u2019t seem to bother anyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two guys started in the kitchen (as you do, kitchens take forever) and two guys started downstairs, on closets (clothes are easy to pack and move, but they\u2019re heavy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cats have been imprisoned in the \u2018not-leaky\u2019 bedroom (not a phrase you ever want to need, trust me) and Dawnise and I are sitting on the sofa that\u2019s not being moved, trying to stay out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Echo Show in the kitchen is steaming music. Dawnise asked Alexa to \u2018play 80\u2019s radio,\u2019 and the mix has been appropriately 80\u2019s-tactic. The guys doing the kitchen asked to turn it up and have been humming along. Tears for Fears giving way to REO Speedwagon segueing into Prince and the Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And sitting here on the sofa, feeling useless as people labor around us, we were stuck by how ridiculously long <\/em>the outro of Purple Rain actually is. Like minutes. And just when you think it\u2019s over, it\u2019s not. And if you\u2019re running on empty, like we are, it becomes hilarious. And it\u2019s all you can do to not giggle maniacally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then, as if on queue, one of the movers popped in and said \u2018in case it matters, there\u2019s water coming in in the bedroom.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re moving today, so of course the lift is out and there\u2019s a heavy rain advisory for London and the South East. The removers arrived roughly on time, which was a bit surprising given London traffic at the best of times, never mind the rain. Four guys, and two trucks, just narrow enough to fit … Continue reading “Purple Rain has a (Very) Long Outro: And Other Thoughts on Moving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-calling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}