The house in all its glory
During our search for houses we came across this beauty, with its four floors, five bedrooms, and a balcony overlooking Swansea Bay (albeit typically a view with appalling weather). We speedily signed the contract, and for several months we awaited, with glee, the time when we would be able to live there.
The 'we' involved in this move are as follows:
Me!
Sanjay,
Matteo ('Teo')
Tom ('Tomothoi')
and Tim
We have now lived in this wonderful house since the end of September, and we have certainly made our mark on the house with severe mess making an appearance through the entire house. In Teo's bedroom, there were mousey residents for a little while, which have now been set free in Singleton Park, probably to be eaten by owls... In our living room we have a shrine to Sabine, a lovely lady inside a very interesting read of a magazine. Here, Sanjay displays her Sabineship:
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[The one-eyed Jar Jar Binks is not a part of the shrine] |
Our house has seen much, experienced much, and we hope to involve her in many more great adventures.
Now, that's enough of the house; let's hear a little bit about those who inhabit her:
- Of course, there's me (but as I'm the one who writes this blog I doubt you want to hear an awful lot more about me)
- Teo, he who lived with me last year in the crappy student village flat. I haven't managed to shake him off yet, the curly-haired Italian stallion. He's still doing Classical Civilization, but nowadays we're never in the same lectures! Which is a disappointment. Teo was born on 08/01/1992 to a family of entirely Italian heritage, he went to St Ignatius College for boys (hence his blatant homosexuality) and he was indoctrinated to support Chelsea from an early age (I gave him a Chelsea pint glass for his birthday!). Teo is an inspiring individual, dabbling in philosophy from time to time. He is also a grinning fool, with his recent obsession over the Chad Vader series being a prime example, and a successful pimp with the likes of Charlotte, Charli and Zoe employed in his agency. And although I don't approve of his music taste, I certainly couldn't live in silence without his harmonious renditions of 'Bluku Bluku' and 'Too Many Man'.
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[Teo appears as the lone male in this photo] |
- Timothy Charlie Sheaff is an interesting comrade in the house of 16 Trafalgar Plc. During all last year, I and Teo enjoyed the company of Tim's flat many a time, as Teo had known of Tim during earlier school years. A happy side note - Tim also just happens to do exactly the same course as me: Ancient and Medieval History. Over last year we made our acquaintance with Tim's flat, but of all of them only Tim and Siân lasted. Timothy is our local Tottenham supporter (yeah, commiserations for the weekend...) and he is also our local oracle. It's otherworldly how well he can predict events to happen, but he still hasn't made his fortunes down at Coral! And it also he who brings best the banter into our house; and when he does you may be blessed to hear his hilarious giggling :3 Tim is also the one that promotes and advertises all of my best quotes (which I feel is done in order to distract from the rarely updated Tim Sheaff Appreciation Society, but that's just a conspiracy theory of mine*). Tim is a beautiful man, a shiny coin to be prized, and if he were to fall down the stai-SHOTGUN!!!
* This society also seems to have absented itself from Facebook....hmm...
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| [A most beautiful portrait of a well appreciated Tim Sheaff] |
- Sanjay is perhaps our most lad-like housemate, here at 16 Trafalgar Place (Actually not really - that position totally belongs to me!). We knew of each other last year, as he and Timothy went to the same college, and preceded to end up in the same uni. He is the only one out of all the housemates not doing a course relating to history; he's doing the fabulously female-orientated English Lit as a degree. Not that you'd ever be aware of this though. I don't think I've ever seen him do an honest hour's work! Sanjay is an accomplished gamer though, spending a great deal of time on Skyrim and Fifa (I have beaten him, just to let you know!). He is also known for his tendency to get inappropriately naked, inappropriately fart and make homosexual comments (which he then goes on to blame on me). Nevertheless, I love Sanjay and his misadventures, and I would never make nasty remarks about him even when he does irritate me beyond belief.
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| [Sanjinho, my fellow Movemberer] |
- Tomothoi is our pet ginger, a lovely, cute and twinkly-eyed individual who has various obsessive compulsions, which I shall later go on to explain. But firstly, Tomothoi initially came into my life at one of the beginning lectures during the Freshers' Month in 2010. And although it takes an awfully long time to crack down his defences I always thoroughly enjoy hearing his valuable opinions and/or ramblings. But I do miss how beautiful his hair was when dyed darkward. Anyway, these days Tomothoi is a tall, curly-haired ginger living on the ground floor of our house, nearest to the front door (if, say, you wanted to seek him out). And he is the reason for the lack of milk in our house; his obsession for tea is disgusting, yet he refused point blank to give up his dirty habit for 40 days this Lent. I suffered greatly for my innocent question as depicted here:
In other news, he is also obsessed with surfing, his guitar, Oxfam and currently Star Wars: The Old Republic. But maybe I should write some nice things about the good old Tomothoi. For example, he is our house cook; only yesterday, he rustled up some toad-in-the-hole with some amazing onion gravy for our consumption. I think I most definitely would have starved by now if it wasn't for Tomothoi. Our Tom is a joy to live with, and I couldn't ask for a more annoying Man United fan to live with.
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| [Tomothoi as a member of One Direction] |
And that would appear to make this the end of the post, although never fear; I do intend to keep updating. The idea for a future blog is to write a few small biographies for others I have met and known over the course of my uni experience. If you want your name on this blog, covered in shining lights, then don't hesitate to ask :)
And so, good afternoon; I bid you all adieu.
xx
