I thought the tumultuous was done now??? I am headed back to the UK, to stay with my friend Joan…
Upon arrival all my plans begin to unravel… I spent a couple days in London, and then to County Durham, only to realize Joan was out of town for the next week… So somewhere in transit I managed to find another hotel in a less than preferable area for a few more days… While I tried to reconnect with the people I know here in England, thankfully I was able to do so somewhat easily… Once I had settled into Joan things started to become clear… I had lovely visits with Joan, Janet, Paul and Shelly… Joan and I went on an incredible day to the sea, collecting rocks and shells, and enjoying the beauty of Seaham… All this assisted in my sorting things out, it became very clear that I would need to find another place to live while staying in the UK…
So I set out to make that happen, while watching the ads for flat shares, I stumbled across the opportunity to live in the Darlington Art Center… The Darlington Art Center is a gorgeous old Gothic building that had been used by the town of Darlington up until July 2012, as a public space for arts crafts, and also had a neighborhood pub… I was able to secure a room that is about a thousand square feet, along with a common area almost twice that size… I would guess the entire building is over 25000 square feet and in place is four stories high… It has a very colorful history including some ghost stories… We are all able to live there as property guardians, which means we keep squatters and vandals away, by being about all the time… I would be moving into my room, in August, and would spend the last week of July at Shelly’s…