House-hunting & Work Week 3

Another eventful week has passed. More work, a little more admin resolved, badminton, an offer submitted for a flat and some language humour.
Spent long hours at work with little to show. If I thought it was hard getting people to do work on my projects at Cat, it is even harder when you just have to get one person to do stuff and he doesn't want to. He got pissed off with me (for being on his back all the time) and I got pissed off with him (for not doing anything and walking out on me - in his office!) It all culminated in us having it out on Thursday and the most productive 2 hours of the week. Hopefully, we have cleared the air and we can get things done more quickly from now on.
Finally got to talk to my Development Manager to get my leave approved (and talk about other things like training, development, admin etc but my main concern was to get my Sept leave in the system). She sounds very nice and we hope to meet each other soon.
Played badminton with a couple of the girls working on other projects in Aberdeen. One is my 'buddy' (assigned person to be available to answer any questions - she just happens to be working in the same city as me at the moment, coincidence!). She is incredibly tall & blonde (Swedish mother and Scottish father) and is a sports nut (was a triathlete but now just works out in the gym, runs and plays volleyball). I restrained myself admirably during the session and was happy to feel no lingering effects the next day.
Taffy and I went looking for flats again on Saturday. We finally made up our minds and put in an offer on a 2 bed flat in Woolwich Arsenal. It is a lovely flat with views of the Thames. The paperwork is going to be an interesting process as I'm not sure that we have everything exactly as they want it.
Taffy got a job during the week and starts on Monday. Well done, Taffy! We had a laugh about the both of us doing 2 of the most stressful things in life at the same time (starting a new job and moving house). We concluded that we are both idiots. : )
As we were putting together a list of things that we would need to buy for our new flat, we discovered that we have the same problem - we don't know the English words for some household items. The problem is that most objects inside the house have always been referred to by their names in Cantonese at home and never in English. This makes things difficult when you are trying to make a list and can't write the words in Chinese. English spellings of the Cantonese words will have to do. I think this is the real definition of Chinglish.
Will be up in Aberdeen from Mon to Wed and then down in Surrey for Thurs & Fri for a networking/training conference with some of the other people at work.
I'm planning to stay up in Scotland one weekend and take a drive down to Stirling to see 'my' castle.