Not too long ago I had to help a friend of mine move into a new place. Well technically it wasn’t a new place it was his first place – he’d just moved out of his parents home and was setting up on his own for the first time. So obviously he wanted advice from somebody who’d been living on their own most of their lives – well after the age of 18 at least. It’s amazing how much you can learn in just a few years living alone – I always preferred living alone. Big crowds never did it for me and after leaving a home that was crammed with people I didn’t want to move into another place that was also equally crammed full of people. But I’m getting off the topic of this post now aren’t I?

So anyway my buddy who we’re going to refer to as Ken was moving into his own place and asked me to come around and make some suggestions about how I could improve the place. When I first walked in there the first thing that popped into my head was “Probably some petrol and a match mate” but that was just because the place was really messy. Typical of a landlord to do this to a first time renter who didn’t know any better.

So after a quick look around and binning most of the crap that was left there and stuffing anything that looked remotely useful into the existing wardrobes we had something that looked like an apartment except for the street lights shining in from outside. Now that was going to bug him when he was gaming and I knew he’d need some blinds and the best place for blinds in Windsor was the same crowd I’d bought mine from – Blind Inspiration. I didn’t even need to think twice before I mailed my buddy (even though he was standing beside me) their telephone number. They’d never put me wrong I knew they wouldn’t put him wrong either.