Even Cybermen need to nip down the corner shop sometimes...As if getting married in just over two weeks wasn't stressful enough, Rachel and I have also taken the first steps towards 'house hunting' and, over the Bank Holiday weekend, even went to look at a three bedroom house in Rusthall (a 'suburb' of Tunbridge Wells).
Even if it hadn't been slightly out of our price range anyway, the stairs up to the attic room were no narrow and steep that even an able bodied person would have thought twice about going up there ... let alone a bloke with a gammy leg who walks with a stick!
Shame really, but it was only our first prospective property and estate agents bombard us daily with other houses, so I'm confident we'll eventually find one that's "just right".
A third bedroom (attic room/basement) is key: to house my hobbies. I've long dreamed of a "fortress of solitude" where geeks can gather and marvel at my battalions of (currently mint on card) Buffy and Dr Who action figures; fight some futuristic wargame in the ruins of a deserted city on my very own, 6' by 4' gaming table; leaf through my comic back catalogue; or browse my sci-fi/fantasy/horror DVDs.
We're also going to need room for Rachel's dolls house collection and N-Gauge railway layout (see, I'm not the only geek in this family unit!) - but I'm hoping they can decorate the second (or 'guest') bedroom and not invade the macho sanctity of the "boy's clubhouse".
The trick will be making the best use of the space available - and I've already got some ideas from these guys, over on Flickr, who've created a 'group' to share images of their own game room layouts. I think I'm going to need lots of plastic drawers!
Just got work out now where I'm to fit the full size (10' tall) replica TARDIS I have my eye on.
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