For the [maybe] three people who follow this site rather than facebook or twitter, I will be homeless in a few days.
I’ve made attempts at finding work, hampered brutally by the huge chunks of money I knew I’d lose the instant I became employed. I have failed to find alternative, affordable accommodation. There are no – and I really do mean *no* – one or two bedroom DSS flats available anywhere in the city, or remotely close to it. So on Thursday morning a Council van will be coming to collect my worldly belongings and place them in secure storage. Anything I want to keep available will be going to my Daughters place for safety + access. I will pack one bag with essentials and take that to the emergency housing office, who will ship me off to a B&B, location to be decided on the hour. I will probably be there for 6 months, which is the minimum reasonable time I can expect to wait for a council flat to become available.
This is the endgame. As of Thursday afternoon I will be legally homeless, short of miraculously finding somewhere to live tomorrow.
As such it is deeply unlikely I will me able to maintain this site on anything resembling a regular basis.
I will remain contactable at undeadbydawn@mac.com [email and facebook], @undeadbydawn on twitter and on my mobile number, 07891920089
any further details I’ll give as and when I can.
Take care, kids
S x
I hadn’t seen that – I don’t actually read FB or Twitter very much as they’re both blocked at work.
Good luck with it – I hope something good turns up for you soon, and the place they find for you is bearable.
Tomorrow is going to be a very long, probably quite horrible day. My flatmate just apologised for having to kick me out, I told him it really isn’t his fault. It isn’t. Life’s just gone wrong in far too many ways far too quickly and I haven’t been able to fix any of it quickly enough.
Now I really need to take the time out at face value and figure myself out. I’ve been bouncing around from moment to moment for years. It’s too late to keep doing that. I’m accepting this as a gift. When you have nothing, all you can do is rebuild a life for yourself and make it the best you can be.