Who Needs Buckingham Palace?

This evening has been rather chill. The Husband and roomie came home and I made dinner. Let me rephrase: I chopped the potatoes, seasoned them and popped them in the oven, steamed the veggies and started cooking the beef. The Husband wants his credit as he offered his help and he supervised the rest of the way:

We finished off the last of the Tawny Port we recently bought.

Now we are just hanging out, watching America's Got Talent. We are a few weeks behind since thing this just the Vegas week.

In the mean time, here's a tour of our flat:

We are still having difficulties with the orientation of the pictures. It appears to be an issue with other bloggers. I will try to be more aware of this issue and take and post only landscape pictures. In the mean time, tilt your head to the right and imagine you are coming in! This is our entrance hall with the roomie's room at the end. 

 Before you walk down the hall, if you take a left, you'll enter our room.

 This is our kitchen area. It's nice to the eye but not very user friendly. You can see my basil plant on the window sill. You can expect to see more herbs there as time goes on.

 This is the frontal view of the kitchen.

 And the living room. I think I was watching DC Cupcakes when I took the picture.

 We had the same picture of New York in the last flat. We also had a picture of Paris too but now we just have the one.

In case you were wondering where our washer/dryer was, here it is: in the kitchen. I thought this was a little bizarre but it seems to be the place to put it. I see washer/dryers in kitchens all the time here. And yes, it is both a washer AND a dryer in one machine. Sounds great right? WRONG! It takes 3 - 4.5 hours to do one tiny load, and you can't even start a wash while one is drying. 

While I'm no designer, I don't care for having everything come from one place, having it look like my room came straight out of a catalogue. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is from Ikea, even down to the glasses and silverware. Oh well, it is a nice place to stay and is is economical for the company. 

Now that you've seen the place, I'm going to kick you out. While you are just getting off work now, it's almost 11 and therefore my bed time. Good night world!

Cheers.