My new house

4 August – 1 September 2010

After a week in Ntinda Wednesday 4 August saw me moving to my new house – Sam from VSO was due to be collecting me early morning but was running late and then could not find where I was staying. After a lot of phone conversations we finally agreed a place which we both knew for me to walk to and wait for him to arrive. He did not know where my new house was either but this was much more straightforward – being on a main road and I go us there without mishap. The house is enormous, three bedrooms, big lounge, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet, two halls and a garage. It is a semi-detached bungalow in a compound.  Unfortunately as well as being far too big for me, it is very noisy, gets dirty very quickly and is in a poor state of repair; making it difficult to keep clean. The house is not in a residential area so I would not fancy being out at night. The landlord was very good and rapidly came to inspect the problems; he then organised a series of workmen. A carpenter came to mend the drawers, the towel rail and put handles back on some of the windows. The plumber came to stop the taps dripping and to get the bath to drain. I then had the carpenter back now in the guise of the painter to remove the mould in the bathroom and repaint it. The next task was to do something about the floor which was breaking up but I moved out before this could happen.