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Come in for tea & biscuits. And then stay. And pay some bills.

 
 
gingerbop
20:05 / 14.09.03
As I reject my university place, the prospect of another cruel year living at home looms. And I dont think I can take it much longer. However, going from living with 12 other people, to on your own within a few years is (almost) equally unappealing.

So would anybody care to move to Inverness? I'd be wanting a cheapy-cheapy-rent flat, somewhere nearish the centre.. and other than that, i dont really care. But then it is theoretical, as I dont yet have a job. *sigh* Im really selling this, arent I? But tis just a vague plan, which would be more likely if anyone wanted to move there. Ahh go-an-go-an-go-an-go-an...
 
 
Bear
11:58 / 15.09.03
You know I was actually considering this the other day not sure yet, might wait another year.

I do know a guy with a spare room near the centre of town though, only draw back is the room smelt like hell!
 
 
Ariadne
13:09 / 15.09.03
Just out of interest, why Inverness? I mean, it seems a nice wee place, but why there rather than elsewhere?
 
 
Bear
13:36 / 15.09.03
Who me? The company I work for have a pretty big office there and I would probably be able to get team leader kinda role there, plus all my ex-work mates still work there (well most of them) and it's just down the road from Elgin if I wanted a bit of culture
 
 
Ariadne
13:44 / 15.09.03
Elgin? Better take a book.
I was asking both of you, really. I was there in August and it was so nice (and cheap!) that I was dreaming of escaping the big city. But maybe a bit *too* wee, for me. And I'd have to learn to talk like you. Though maybe I'd finally get to meet your aunty - I'm sure we'd get on.
 
 
Bear
14:11 / 15.09.03
Enough with the Elgin slagging! It's probably the only town in Scotland with a Scottish theme bar

Inverness is cool everyone should move there, right now! Go back your bags all of you!

And I don't think you could ever meet my auntie it's just like Back to the Future if you did meet the universe would probably just disappear....
 
 
gingerbop
15:03 / 15.09.03
Why? Equally, its a nice city, (and as for wee- i live in a place with less than 100 people, so inverness is a compatative bustling mertopolis) and i can pop back to the cultural centre of jemimaville, the height of it being mother-operated domestic appliances and a post office which is a garden shed in the field. And i'v applied for jobs there, and most of my friends are there, and and and edinburgh is big and scary still!

Bear, ya big wuss- you KNOW you want to go back... oooh oohh... this nice, fresh, non-londonified air, isnt it nice, mmmm...
Tempted yet?

And i dont think you want to speak like me.
"were are you from, are you canadian?"
 
 
Ariadne
15:37 / 15.09.03
Well, I always get people thinking I'm Irish, when I'm from near Glasgow. I'm sure I could work on a nice beary lilt if need be.

However, I've just spent the afternoon talking to people in Tennessee so i'm working on that accent for the moment.

If I move to Inverness, can I get your Mum to do my washing, gingerbop?
 
 
Ariadne
15:38 / 15.09.03
And I have to say that Jemimaville is the coolest placename I've ever heard. The first time you mentioned it I thought you were making it up, and looked it up on google. Very cute indeed.
 
 
rizla mission
20:30 / 15.09.03
A suspiciously similar (but even more unlikely) request;

I don't s'pose anyone fancies sharing a reeally groovy flat in, er, Swansea?

Seriously, Swansea's quite nice these days..

No? oh well, never mind.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
21:31 / 15.09.03
Oh, Inverness.

I bet you've never actually seen a person die of loneliness.

Oh, Inverness.

All in good time.
 
 
gingerbop
21:47 / 15.09.03
Adrienne- only if you promise you'll sit down and have tea and biscuits, while the machine's on. And have some cake whilst she's ironing it. Seriously.
 
 
gingerbop
21:53 / 15.09.03
Oh my god. Iv just realised that you're not adrienne at all. Adrienne is a bitch gymnast who looks smug and steals medals. I'm not bitter. Ariadne...ariadne... repeat 10 times/minute until correct.
 
 
Bear
10:10 / 16.09.03
Inverness/London/America/Japan my heads all over the place this week.. I have lots of photos of Inverness on me right now but we don't seem to have a scanner anymore - here's Elgin Cathedral though built in the 13th century don't you know....

 
 
Ariadne
10:17 / 16.09.03
Looks a bit drafty.
Japan, huh? You can't share a flat with gingerbop in Japan.
 
 
Ariadne
10:19 / 16.09.03
Is that how you spell drafty? Draughty looks silly, and I only have anAmerican dictionary here.
You're the second person this month to call me Adrienne, ginger-b. Maybe I am a secret medal-stealer.
 
 
Bear
10:27 / 16.09.03
Dude you can't tell me who I can and can't live with if I want to live in a flat in Japan with gingerbop I will it has nothing to do with you or her! Medal-pincher.

Draf-tee
 
 
ephemerat
10:31 / 16.09.03
Draft or drafty are the American English versions of draught or draughty. Draft in English refers to a plan, sketch, outline or money order. I had to look it up...
 
 
Ariadne
10:31 / 16.09.03
Nothing to do with her either? She's just going to wake up one day, go looking for her cornflakes, and find nothing but sushi and a bear in her kitchen?

Mind you, if you do whisk gingerbop to Japan that'll leave all the medals for me and Adrienne.
 
 
Ariadne
10:34 / 16.09.03
Ta, Cass.
 
 
Bear
10:44 / 16.09.03
Nothing to do with her either? She's just going to wake up one day, go looking for her cornflakes, and find nothing but sushi and a bear in her kitchen?

Exactly right, well apart from the sushi - still veggie mind...

No medals though they'll be melted down to make me my very own title belt.
 
 
Ariadne
10:51 / 16.09.03
still veggie mind...

Good bear. Well done. And you do get some veggie sushi.

It sounds like gingerbop has enough medals to make you a full suit of armour.
 
 
gingerbop
16:35 / 16.09.03
Christ Bear, u HAVE to live here now... where else am i gonna get another veggie flatmate?

45, ariade (OH YES, i think i got ur name right without looking) to be precise, but a whole fecking dinnerset in trophies. Although a suit of armour made of melted down plastic medals wouldnt be so cool...

I had a job interview today but she didnt call til 30 mins b4, and i was in town, so i had to go as scaffy as i was. I dont think i'll get it, cause the buses would mean i was 40 mins late every morning. But SEVEN A.M.- seriously.... thats just asking for trouble, especially if they do employ me. They'll regret it once I start throwing turkey at anyone who speaks to me before 10.

Whats so good about japan? Japan sucks. You want to be in inverness. DONT YOU now. teaa....biscuits....laundry-service...oooooh
 
 
The Falcon
16:43 / 16.09.03
Y'should move to 'Scotland's most underrated city' (TM), Dundee. 'S good for at least four years. Cheap, too.
 
 
Bear
16:43 / 16.09.03
I don't like tea!

How much are flat in Inverness anyway, prices are mental back in Scotland my sisters moved into this really nice 2 bedroom flat in Lossiemouth, well it's not exactly really nice but you know decent enough - only £200 a month!

There must be jobs going in the new shopping centre, maybe you could get a job hiding in Noahs ark popping out at 12.00 - they better still have that!

I think if I do move back it wont be until next year, probably January (have to wait until my work gives me a payrise)...
 
 
gingerbop
21:34 / 16.09.03
God i hate that fucking clock.
The Eastgate2 has been open for 6 months, and jobs are prety much gone. I handed in an application today, and they called me half an hour later, and asked me for an interview half an hour after that- i was flustered, and hadnt dressed or prepared for it, and it went not so great. But you never know what mongels the other 3 were.

I know its not that recently, but last year, my brother had a gorgeous flat near Bellfield park, but closer to town, and it was 280 a month. The bedsits iv seen advertised near the centre are about 60/week, so if the parents annoy me to much, i'll fly to one of them, i reakon. Seeing as none of you other skanks are willing to live with me...

Im not fond of dundee. I know people who love it- my parents lived there for years and herald it as fabulous, and its cheap, but it leaves me cold.

Bear, im going to make you like tea, if its the last thing i do.
 
  
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