Stuart Waterman

As my flatmate is moving out in March, I need to locate me a new one. I live in a rather nice place in N8 near Crouch End – details and photos below. You’d be sharing with me and me alone. The double bedroom up for grabs has an ensuite bathroom & shower!!1

As a thirtysomething year-old adult, I’m not really after a perma-partying party person. I also feel like I’ve paid my dues as far as sharing living space with full-on lunatoids like Eddie here.

What I’d ideally like is a considerate, stable, relatively grown-up, laidback-but-not-horizontal type (male/female/whatever) who has an awareness of basic hygeine and isn’t averse to washing dishes and using a hoover in a frenzied manner now and again 15 minutes before people come to visit.

Email me at waterman.stuart(at)gmail.com/call 07929 358 179 if you’d like to arrange a viewing. Please make some attempt to convince me you’re not a maniac when doing so.
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Available mid-March. £600 pcm excluding bills – council tax, electricity, water, phone line, internet, TV licence. Flat is all-electric – no gas central heating. Heating comes via Economy 7 heaters in lounge, kitchen, hallway and bedrooms (flat is pretty well-insulated).

Double bedroom with ensuite bathroom on 2nd floor of a modern, secure purpose-built block in London N8.

3 minutes’ walk to Hornsey train station: First Capital Connect southbound trains to Finsbury Park (5 minutes), Highbury & Islington (7 minutes), Old Street (15 minutes) and King’s Cross on the weekend (15 minutes).

7 minutes’ walk to Turnpike Lane tube station on Piccadilly Line, Zone 3. Buses to Camden, central London, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Alexandra Palace, Tottenham, Leyton, etc.

15 minutes’ walk to Crouch End, 10 minutes’ walk to Wood Green high street which has Sainsbury’s, M&S, the usual high street suspects, cinema, etc. Corner shop/off licence nearby (and proper chip shop, too).

BEDROOM

Ensuite bathroom with toilet, shower, basin, towel heater.
Desk & wardrobe included; bed not included.

ENSUITE BATHROOM

Includes shower; toilet seat also goes down.

LOUNGE

Table & chairs, shelves, TV stand included.
TV, sofa, coffee table not included.

Sofa and coffee table on the right included.

Balcony off the lounge!

KITCHEN

Microwave included.
Also has dishwasher, washer/dryer, cooker (electric), fridge/freezer.
I own hardly any pots, pans, crockery etc and my flatmate will be taking his with him, so if you have loads of that kind of stuff there’s plenty of room for it.

HALLWAY

Including entryphone and small wardrobe for coats, hoover, etc.

A little update on where I am and am not “at” these days.

Along with several other folk, I was laid off by Shiny Media. Boo hoo, etc. We managed to come to an agreement regarding My Chemical Toilet, and I now run it independently. It’s much prettier nowadays (if more irregularly updated) and that’s all thanks to my friend Ben from PowerOn Communications, whose services I would heartily recommend.

More pressingly, from next week I’ll be working as “Web Editor / Social Media Manager” at Lucky Voice, the karaoke folk. The prevailing reaction on informing people of this seems to be one of laughter, so I’ll pause here to allow you to do that.

Obviously I’m very excited by this development – it allows me to combine my passions of music and web geekery, and it’s a brand (sorry) most people seem to be quite affectionate towards. I’ll be editing the company blog, which you can find here, and I imagine I’ll be looking after all the other social media gubbins as well.

I’ll be spreading word of (warning: autoplay video) Lucky Voice Home – which allows you to stream karaoke tracks and video through your computer – while also alerting folk to the fact that you can get your hands on some rather pretty accessories to improve the experience, too.

If you follow me on Twitter at @mychemtoilet I hope you’ll do likewise at @luckyvoice, because I intend to make it a fun and amusing feed to follow. And if you’re reading this and think there’s a way we can work together, feel free to drop me a line.

So there we are; despite asterisking out “S*cial M*dia” on my LinkedIn profile, it’s now my job title. I should probably get used to “affectionate” insults, huh?

After a week of London rain, I’m heading to Madrid for a wedding tomorrow. This is what the weather holds. It’s sad how unbelievable this looks to British eyes.

Oh, and – woohoo!

Who Ate All The Pies, Shiny Media’s football powerhouse, last week walked off with Soccerlens‘ Best Overall Blog 2007 award.

Also, Kickster, the women’s football site which launched just in time for last year’s Women’s World Cup, won Best Women’s Football Blog 2007. I worked extensively on Kickster in its pre and post-launch stages and it’s great to see such a young site get recognition.

This week’s most intriguing referral. I’m going to have to be extra watchful for errant apostrophes if we have journalism students reading…

I suppose I’d sound really old if I said I wish I could have done stuff like this when I was at university?

From London Transport Museum

From London Transport Museum

Chinese New Year 2008

I swear I just heard the the entirety of the home counties spit out its cornflakes.

That’s all I have to say about that, really.