So my challenge for the day was to write 100 facts about the Fishflat�..so here goes:
1. Ali and I decided to move out of home and in with each other after she broke up with her ex-fiance and I decided that I couldn�t treat the parentals house like a hotel anymore!
2. The Fishflat was very nearly based in Arnos Grove, North London
3. Instead it is in Pants Hill�sorry Gants Hill in sunny Barkingside, Essex
4. We collected the keys on Monday 1 November 1999
5. Out first meal was that night and was pizza and coke out of a 2-litre bottle because we had nothing to eat with or on!
6. We moved in the following weekend
7. I cried after my Dad dropped me off after taking the last of my stuff from the parentals to the flat!
8. Our first official meal at the Fishflat was Chicken Caesar salad and wine and we watched Batman on video
9. Ali, Becky and Lang have all had carpet-burns from our carpet!
10. I haven�t!
11. Our bathroom is horrible pink
12. We tried to make it kitsch with fluorescent pink bath mats and various ducks but I�m not sure it worked!
13. It takes 4 hours to fill the bath coz the shower is poo and doesn�t work properly
14. Irina and Becky have both lived with us (Irina for 4 weeks, Becky for 6) after traumas with blokes.
15. I think it became known as the Fishflat sometime last year after we had been living there 2 years and Ali and I became Mrs and Mrs Fish.
16. The Fishflat is also residence to Bert the Alien, Ernie the Kangaroo, Deirdre the Platypus, Jack the Skeleton (who wears a Habs hat, a tie and one of Bec�s thongs until she had no clean underwear and had to take it back!) and a ghost.
17. They are all inflatable.
18. We also have glowing lamps in the shape of a pig and a hippo, called Tony and Dave respectively.
19. There is an array of glowing, dancing, singing kids toys that keep us amused for hours
20. The newest edition being a wind up blow job action toy that Ali and Dan bought me from Ann Summers last night
21. We have many drinking games too
22. And jigsaw puzzles
23. Which we once sat up doing till 1 in the morning � on a school night (rock and roll lifestyle)
24. The living room carpet has more red wine stains than a red wine making place
25. We try not to use glass because we are too clumsy and break things!
26. The wasking up doesn�t get done for over a week
27. It once took us an hour and a half to wash and dry up coz we�d used every single plate, bowl, mug, pan and piece of cutlery we own!!
28. Ali is not allowed to touch the big dial on the heating (she does weird things to it and it doesn�t work properly!)
29. But she can bleed radiators
30. We haven�t defrosted the freezer in the entire time we have lived there despite Ali and I vowing to do it every time we have time off work!
32. Our recycling box constantly overflows with empty wine bottles!
33. We�ve made a video of fishflat footage that is extremely embarrassing for those in it (especially me!)
34. Our carpet makes your bum itch coz its so cheap!
35. Ali doesn�t have a wardrobe so most of her clothes are in her other room (also known as my room!)
36. We have fairy lights round the kitchen window � its pretty!
37. After 18 months of Ali�s whinging I finally caved and bought her a Dudley Duck popcorn maker
38. We�ve used it once!
39. Ali once set fire to sesame seeds when she was toasting them
40. We also burned crispy seaweed once and the smell lingered for 3 days�yuck!
41. We have incomplete tiling in the kitchen so we put up posters of Steps, 5ive, Eddie Izzard and a portrait of Ali and myself lovingly drawn by Ali to hide the horrible paper underneath!
42. The kitchen table was the scene of the �Fire Incident�
43. There was a spate of number plate thefts
44. We think it was the OAP�s trying to prevent boredom!
45. We once sat eating pizza and writing poetry by candle light coz I lost the electricity key and we ran out of electric!
46. It was devastating coz I had to eat the last of the frozen yoghurt (strawberry flavoured) coz it was melting!
47. Our CD/Radio in the kitchen is called Juan coz we bought him to take to Benidorm with us last year!
48. We have antiques
49. (They actually belong to the landlord)
50. When we moved in there were action shots of Andre Agassi in a frame on the wall�.above the toilet!
Rather than bore you with the 100 today and because I am mega busy (and nothing at all to do with the fact that I am struggling for anything past 52!) I am going to leave it there and my next update will be the next 50��watch this space!