Second week in the office, third week in Manchester. and I am slowly getting used to the fact that this is forever (...for at least few years, and that is for me as much forever as possible).
Today, while working on my stuff today, I had the feeling that I actually belong to the office for the first time. Aw yiss!

I am now collecting my first experience with a) English houses, b) living in a shared house. So, what are the pros and cons of a tiny English house?
+ it is a house, and it's yours
+ you have two floors, so you can have a (relatively) big kitchen and living room downstairs, and all the other stuff upstairs
+ same for bathroom, you can have a big one, or even more than one (which is useful)
+ you can rent/let some rooms to help you pay bills
- there's a complex system of trash cans, you have at least two of them (sometimes three, each with different colour, and a timetable for each one)
- it can be rather cold there (you do not want to waste, so you only turn on the heating, let's say, 20 min before people return home in the evening or 20 min before they get up in the morning, and then only for 1 hr - meaning that the rest of the time, it's cold there!)
- it's usually either affordable and far from everywhere, or totally expensive
+/- the main windows are to the street, so you can see everything, but everything can see you

I will for sure think about other stuff later, don't worry.

What else do I find funny and/or interesting?
* There's a tiny concrete backyard, where you can have plants in pots, and do many things such as grill parties. It is all decorated by a bunch of cables. When I asked about that - it's landline! Phones! O_o Seriously, phones like this, on poles?
* There's even tinier concrete 'garden' in front of the house. The door is equipped with everything, there's a doorknocker and this little hole for mail.
* I can hear the neighbors' kid running up and down the stairs.
* The backyard has its own door, and in this door, there's a tiny trapdoor for cats. Really! It is there! (However, I examined it just now, and it appears to be one way only. Very interesting!)

Well, (probably) more interesting things to follow in few daus! Stay tuned! :-)