So the week started off pretty boring – we’d been promised a Monday delivery for our bedroom furniture so I waited, and waited and waited..and well, it didn’t turn up. A phone call later determined that our order had in fact not been processed and so they’d ‘try’ to deliver on Thursday…we didn’t hold much hope. Tuesday was another uneventful day although we did go to the pub but I’m saving pubs for another post.
I felt like going shopping for some vintage clothes on Weds and did a bit of research to find out best and cheapest place to go and turned out that there was a highly recommended, gigantic Salvation Army store up in Queens so off I went. It was pretty good, much bigger than I imagined, but I knew straight away I’d have to hunt for ages or be really lucky to find anything as it was a similar standard to UK charity shops – a mix of many recent years with the odd vintage gem. I spent about 2 1/2 hours rumaging and managed to find a few things so I was happy, even though Alex said my 60s coat looks like something a ‘granny’ would wear - I love it and I’m going to wear it every day to annoy him (I wrote that bit after he proof read this post ;)
What was a simple journey on the way to Queens turned out to be a nightmare on the way back (I have rarely managed to use the subway without getting it totally wrong since getting here). Instead of 2 trains back down into Brooklyn I somehow ended up going all the way into Manhattan, down through the middle and back over the river into Brooklyn and it took about an hour. Still, I didn’t really have anything better to do and it meant that I got a fantastic view of the adjacent Brooklyn Bridge as I travelled over the East River.
Today, Thursday, our shipment of personal items arrived from the UK and just as I was giving up hope of ever seeing our bedroom furniture it showed up so I was pretty happy. Starting to feel a bit more at home now that we have more than two borrowed fold up chairs and an ironing board (which we’re currently using as a table). Looking forward to our TV, sofa and dining table arriving next week - we’ll feel much more settled in then.
I have found a local animal shelter which is looking for volunteers to help brush and play with cats and I’m really excited about starting work there as I’m missing my cats terribly, and it will help with making some friends here hopefully. Well, as long as there are people there to make friends with and not just cats as that would be weird…I keep getting really excited when I see cats lately, trying to coax them over so I can stroke them (there are a lot of stray cats round here which is really sad). I’ll end up like my mum who walks around her Spanish village with a pack of stray dogs following her because she decides to feed them all every day.
I’m glad the weekend is almost upon us as this means we shall be visiting more pubs. We’re going to be exploring the neighbourhood as there’s meant to be a lot of good pubs around and I shall write about them next week to try and encourage some visitors.
Until then, have a great weekend!
