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My 1st post from my new digs! And I can't think of a better way to spend a fiver than on 24 hours worth of internet (so this might be the first and last post for a while...)

As moves go - and I have done three now - it was incredibly straight-forward. With the help of Scottie (the Man who came with The Van), my brother (the older - younger had absconded to Birmingham for as yet unknown purposes) and Maisy (more on her later) I loaded up said Van in less than an hour then drove down to Clapham with ma bru (I have been watching Blood Diamond again) and un-pakced said Van in a remarkable twenty-minute burst, ably assisted by Adam and James who had no excuse as they can see my front door from theirs. I say "I" loaded The Van: I was actually summarily dismissed as too weakly to do more than shift boxes seven inches through the french windows. It was in fact Maisy who did most of the first-leg hard graft: she returned from her nineteenth trip to The Van to report that Scottie and ma bru were discussing football and re-assembling the desk I had somehow managed to construct backwards.

I have now been in residence for four days and I have learnt much. Firstly, living by yourself is weird: I am suddenly aware of myself in microscopic detail. I have only ever lived in the company of others and after twenty-six years I feel like I am beginning a totally different life; I have only myself to rely on and only myself to please...I do not dislike it, for I like having time and space for myself and if I ever feel lonely I only need crank up some Kate Bush on iTunes. I do, however, miss Maisy. Good Lord I miss Maisy. I feel like we have broken up. I find myself wondering what she is doing, picturing her making coffee in the morning, or taking the bin out, which I know to be a particular favourite past-time of hers; the experience of moving into this lovely new flat would have been made exponentially more enjoyable had Maisy been here to share it with me. I cannot wait for her inaugural visit this Sunday, when gluten-free scones will be the order of the day.

I am currently bed-less, thus sleeping on a blanket-nest on the floor which has given me the three best nights sleep I have had in the last eighteen months. I am also can-opener-less, as I found to my cost, when I tried to include tuna in last night's dinner. Being internet-less is irksome, but mainly because I am denied my usual late-night perusal of the Daily Mail website. Living alone also appears to have liberated me from a range of social norms, which might explain how I came to be eating sushi in the bath this evening, or why there is, amongst other things, a sponge, two doorstops, a tape measure and a wooly hat currently on my dining table. In the absence of much furniture I have endeavoured to add the essential homely touches: there is loo-roll in the bathroom, trays brimming with ice-cubes in the freezer and a cupboard full of cheese and onion triangle crackers from M&S. Sofa schmofa, I say.

Of course, the Great Move is meaningless without the addition of a dialysis machine and I am now counting the days. One can never underestimate the torpor with which the NHS clunks along, but I hope - hope -  to be starting my formal home dialysis training this week, and having learnt most of it already - I've have had a five-year learning curve - perhaps it won't be too long until David Gandy and John Barnes (seriously? No-one? Cultural references are not my hospital's strong suit) pay me a visit, like kidney failure's answer to the Mafia. Until the machine comes and I start home dialysis, it feels incredibly indulgent to be living here in this nice, roomy flat all by myself. I had not accounted for the guilt my moving here would induce; firstly, because of the expense and secondly, because...well, I haven't done anything to justify it. All I have managed to do in twenty-six years of being alive is have kidney failure and learn the whole rap to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I am not in a position to be able to re-pay the largesse that has been so generously bestowed upon me but as I made my ham and cucumber sandwich this morning to the admittedly bizarre strains of the Alan Partridge audio book I found I had downloaded on my laptop, I knew: I am going to do whatever it takes to make something of myself. One day I won't be restricted by kidney failure anymore and from that day forward my sole aim will be to make up for the time that I have lost and make my life count.

Of course I could start making my life count now by passing my Masters, and writing the essay that is due in 2 weeks instead of spending an hour on this blog post and downloading stuff from iPlayer. But with only 22 hours of internet left, why waste it doing something important?

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  1. I'm so glad you are getting the home machine and can relax whilst it happens - a small thing yet massive.
    Enjoy living on your own. I've always fancied it but somehow ended up with a husband and kid so make the most of the you time while you can!! xx

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