The Langstons Homeless Shelter

Last time I blogged me and Percy had been traveling all over the country as homeless nomads. Since then we have been reunited with Dan and have settled in to our new temporary home with the Langston family. We have moved exactly 1 mile from the worst bit of L15 to the poshest bit. This was the view out of my bedroom window before:

 and these are two views outside of our bedroom window and the second room we have been given (a lounge/playroom/office room)

(That's a footballer who plays for England mum's house by the way)

The Langstons are a crazy family that we are enjoying getting to know. 4 years ago the they could have bought a nice normal 4 bed in a nice area and lived a nice normal life but they thought "screw that. Lets buy a house made from 12 one bed flats that has no hot water or heating and requires thousands of pounds to make it liveable and lets make it epic." Quite a big achievement when you have a one year old and are pregnant with another.

So 4 years on it's very liveable. It has a gorgeous kitchen, massive dinning room that looks like a UN meeting room with a massive old 18 seater dinning table, lovely lounge, a playroom, a load of bedrooms and bathrooms in various states of finished and currently the piles of mud and junk in the outside bit is becoming a beautiful garden soon to have a zip wire! On the yet to be completed list is the basement and ANOTHER whole floor that is currently unsafe to even walk in. It's been a bit overwhelming for Percy to go from a tiny 2 up 2 down with 2 parents to this house which is currently made up of the 5 Langstons us 3 and another lodger called Karen. We live on floor 4 or 3.5 ish so he has had a lot of stairs practice!

They are currently getting their garden done which means there is a digger outside which is super exciting for Percy.

It's been fun getting to know the kids who are 5, 4 and 3. They love Percy (sometimes a little too boisterously) and Percy loves them too, especially the middle one Abigail, he says her name a lot. I introduced the kids to the concept of dares...can you believe the parents haven't taught that yet? This resulted in the eldest begging her mum to let her wear knickers on her head to school. Next I'll be teaching the kids spin the bottle, knock- a-door-run, and prank calls.

We decided to pull out of the house we were buying (I wouldn't have minded staying in but Dan didn't feel right about it). So we will be here at the Langstons until we find a new house, which maybe a while as we are a bit confused about what we want right now. We have sent our terrible estate agents a complaining letter along with this:

They haven't responded, surprise surprise.

On a more positive note my homelessness has led to a bit of new material for my comedy.

see it here