About Avondale
I’ve been in Avondale a week now (the ‘South Auckland of West Auckland’, as my old boss put it), so feel like I should say something about the new place/neighbourhood.
Firstly, there are only four types of shop in Avondale - fruiterers and greengrocers, Chinese-made crap stores, fast food outlets and pawnbrokers/loan sharks.
Secondly, the buses are fast. It’s like Avondale is the located at the extreme end of a pulled-back rubber band about to be let go. It took 15 minutes to get to work today from pick-up to drop-off - that’s how long it takes to drive! Seriously.
Thirdly, there’s a big fuck-off spider ’statue’ which all the local drunks and freaks hang out beneath. It’s so awesome, I think if I’m still here in a couple of albums’ time, I’m going to have to do one called ‘Arachnid-Upon-Avon’.
Fourthly, building code regulations stipulate bedrooms must have a natural light source, so there’s a massive skylight in the middle of both bedrooms. This is great at 6pm, not so much at 6am.
Fifthly, and I’ll make it lastly for now, one of the neighbours has an unsecured wireless internet connection. The upshot of this is not needing to pay for the big-ass bandwidth cap anymore.
Tags: internet, moving house, shops, weird
