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[gothwalk]

With the news of the house, we're into a strange kind of limbo. Everything is good and groovy; we have the house we want, arrangements are being made to get references and deposit to the new landlords and so on. But there's nothing we can do. We'll have plenty of time to move, so there's no point in packing stuff yet. We can't go and sit in the place and light a fire and gloat, because we don't have the keys yet (although I suspect that'll the be the first thing to do when we do get them). And there's no househunting to be done any more, of course. It's strange.

It's also two years since we last moved, and in the meantime got married, which got us a lot of stuff in the form of presents, and we've bought things like bookshelves, a dresser (Irish sense, not American), and of course, about a metric elephant-weight of books and CDs. But we have time to get everything over, and the new place is not so dreadfully far away that we can't move stuff without resorting to somebody-with-a-car.

I'm trying to figure out if there'll be space somewhere in the new place to display my rock collection, or somewhere slightly better than the current place for the not-quite-a-colelction-but-more-than-three of small bottles. And where to put the computers. Stuff, y'know?

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[podling]

So what's the difference between an Irish and an American dresser then?

I totally hear you on the other stuff though. Good on ya! I'll be going through the same thing soon enough...

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

An American dresser, if I'm remembering right, is a sort of chest-of-drawers with a mirror on top, that goes in a bedroom. An Irish dresser is a small cupboard, waist height, often with a couple of drawers at the top, and then with open shelves of about half the depth of the cupboard on top. They're traditionally used to display good china on the shelves, with the bottom part used for storage of the rest of the set.

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[podling]

Oh right. I always had the Irish style one in my room, though I had books and toys rather than dishes and china. Thank you Drew. :)