Take a look in the five and ten, glistening once again

It certainly is looking like christmas in here. We went and got our tree today from Lull Farm (bad photo taken on mobile phone)

Putting it up wasn't without incident. I have ended up with five stitches in my hand - don't ever try and cut branches off your tree without looking at what you are doing, oh and if you are going to do, it with something other than a kitchen knife. But it looks lovely (the tree not my hand although that will survive I think)

Feed the birds, tuppence a bag

We went for a walk this afternoon to Mine Falls Park which is about five minutes from the apartment. It goes along the Nashua river and has miles of beautiful walks through the woods. All very pretty.

There is a word that is very overused in America - awesome. However we saw something whilst in the park that I think could actually truly described as awesome. Sitting on a log, not 6 feet from us, was an enormous hawk.  Not being a ornithologist, I couldn't tell you what sort it was (having googled, it could have been a red tailed hawk) but it was something that did truly inspire awe. About five minutes later we saw its likely dinner, a chipmunk.

Certainly beats pigeons and grey squirrels on an afternoons walk.

Smokestack, fatback, many miles of railroad track

After nearly six weeks of being here and due to unprecendented demand (well three people) here, eventually is the promised blog.

We have finally moved to our apartment. For those of you interested, it is in this building and very nice it is too. And what everyone seems to want to see, what it looks like. First a couple of photos from when we had been in about an hour:

The unfeasibley large living area. Note the suicidal loft ladder on the left, there is a bed up there for anyone interested in trying it when they come.



The said living area looking the other way towards the view outside (with the handle of the truck as a handy reference from the last photo).



The one everyone wants to see - where you will be staying when you come, the spare room.



And now the after - just of the living area at the moment as that the only sort of finished room. These were taken the evening of the day we moved in so its still a bit bare:




As you will see, there is no ceiling lights, I have never had so many lamps in my life.I suppose changing bulbs in ceilings does pose problems.

And finally for now - the thing that really makes the apartment - the view. Sadly its not quite as sunny as that at the moment, in fact its pissing down and has been for two days, who says Britain has exclusivity to shit summers?