At the beginning of the year, I had a brain wave.Let's move house.
Living in NW London, I thought that we couldn't afford a house anywhere in London. It was a couple of people at work that suggested Lewisham and with a bit of research, I decided to base the search along the East London Line extension - hence Brockley, Honour Oak, Forest Hill & Sydenham were in the frame.
We quickly became enamoured with Forest Hill - partly for the quiet, residential streets of Victorian houses and partly because of what our money could buy us. We had a look at East Dulwich to see what the allegedly upmarket cousin had to offer and though we liked the buzz along Lordship Lane, the actual housing stock left us unimpressed.
As it turned out, the first weekend of looking and we saw somewhere we liked in Forest Hill. The next weekend, we saw it again, put the offer in and we began our relationship with SE23.
What I used to think was just a kink in the South Circular is about to become home and I'm thrilled. All the excitement of exploring a new area, finding new amenities, working out how to get to work!
There is only really one thing I am apprehensive about and that is my blog. I currently blog about where I now live, West Hampstead. I have lived here for 7 years - I know it, I feel I can comment on it. In SE23, I'm a new girl.
The one thing I've learnt about blogging is to have a theme. Be it having sex on the brain, or walking the streets of your postcode. I think this blog will show my experiences and things I find as I explore SE23. Only time will tell how it goes.
3 comments:
Welcome Alisa!
What a great choice. We've been here 3 years now and think very highly of Forest Hill.
Sadly, my forest hill blogging theme has come to a stuttering halt for the time being (the walking the streets one), but I still blog locally but about wine instead.
Have you found www.se23.com yet?
The other helpful network are Lewisham bloggers. All of us get together form time to time and you'd be most welcome at the next one. Nothing planned yet, but I'll let you know.
Rob
Alisa
It seems you will need to sort out your RSS feed as I seem to be unable to sign up (no feed)
Hope all is well
Hi Rob! Nice to meet fellow bloggers. This weekend is blog maintenance weekend, so hopefully you will have more to see - and be able to see it going forwards!
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