Musical Monday: Boundaries (Lena)

From the upcoming X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix.

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Tiger, You Hit The Jackpot - Week Seven...

Even If You Change Your Name, Wally, They'll Get You In The End!

Forget The Movie, The New TV Adaptation Of His Dark Materials Looks Amazing...

Adapting Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy of the same name, which is considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the first season follows Lyra, a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world.

Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.

As she journeys through the worlds, including our own, Lyra meets Will, a determined and courageous boy.

Together, they encounter extraordinary beings and dangerous secrets, with the fate of both the living — and the dead — in their hands.

We're Getting There...

Far fewer boxes than before has to be a good sign... and Amy has moved again!

Totally knackered at the moment because I've been hefting boxes, loading books onto shelves etc all morning, but I wanted to post some kind of update on our progress in the new house.

As you can see from above, there are far fewer boxes stacked in the dining area at present because I've been rattling through them and filling up the shelves as fast as Rachel's dad can build them.

Like the elves that helped the shoemaker, I like to do "my part" while there's no one else around. So this morning - while Rachel slept - I got on with unpacking boxes and loading up shelves.

You'll also notice above that Amy Pond has moved again, as she was in the way of Rachel's dad while he was building the last of the Ikea units and starting work on my games table.

The games table is under the dust sheet in the pictures below, as it's unfinished at present.

However, you can see I've been cracking on with filling the shelves with books, games, DVDs etc

Rachel says it looks like a shop!

A panorama shot of the room from last night

Of major importance, we've also got the lounge back. In fact, bar filling a few shelves in there, that room's pretty much done.

To celebrate, last night, as Rachel was out, I turned out all the lights, reclined my seat back and watched M Night Shyamalan's Glass on our lovely big telly.

The lounge

And another important development - now that those white units are down in the lounge - is that it has freed up space in the office/spare room for a new writing desk... on which my laptop now resides.

The office

There's still plenty that needs doing. I know there's a shedton of boxes in storage at Rachel's parents' house, so, we're a ways off finishing this first stage of moving into our "forever home".

But the end of this chapter is in sight.

Then, in the middle of the year, the builders are due to arrive, to convert the loft into a master bedroom (a predicted three or four month project).

But that's a story for down the road...