That sounds like a great idea Pea. I'll speak to them. Thanks alot!

Sylvester, you can find out if there are any Unite or Digs Student Accomodation in that area. They sometimes agree to let the rooms termly, instead of for the full year. Good luck.

www.campusdigs.com
www.unite-students.com

It's not an accommodation cock-up, it's just the hassles of paperwork to do with buying and selling. I'm going to halt payments on my existing mortgage to free up cash so I can survive in a B&B for a week or two. Basically comes down to 2 weeks of paperwork required to be done in one week, which ain't gonna happen.

But since you ask, as I'm going to Wales I could write to my MP about the lack of NHS dentists.

Yes, that crossed my mind too. Surprisingly works out cheaper than paying my mortgage but obviously I'm confined to a room full of chintz and an overly intrusive landlady.

She might ask me to fix her boiler!

What about finding a FREE cardboard box at tesco and living outside the uni in it?

If I pile several up I can have a small house. Could you imagine it during Freshers week? How long would it last?

H, I can see sylvester getting in all sorts of trouble with the homeless community, if he does that. A few years ago, I bought a sandwich and a drink in covent garden, I had half an hour to kill until meeting with my friend. So I went to a door-way just opposite tesco and started to eat my sandwich. This homeless guy came with his cardboard and asked me to move. Why? I said; "because this is my place, f off and find yourself another shelter" he shouted, and I shouted back at him, we argued about who's space that was for a while. Then my friend arrived.

I wouldn't want to upset the local war veterans would I. Maybe I should sleep on the office floor, or in the car.

Indeed, a freshers week of debauchery with a different bed every night. This could actually be fun after all. Genius DanB.

... and get shoulder-massages as DanB did

Of course, you know what will happen when I turn up to take my first tutorial group.

I wasn't quite thinking in those terms. Just makes me think of the film Trainspotting when he wakes up in the morning.

Well you could dig a moat around your collection of boxes and have a drawbridge which you could pull up when you were at home. Hopefully any rogue homeless people will fall into the moat so you will be quite safe.

Actually you could keep water in the moat and use it to bathe and stuff....

http://www.retirementwithapurpose.com/images/article/afcastle/1.jpg

That looks fun, the hat would be a real lady puller, no?