Houses cars and fairs, oh my

The UK really lights up nearing Christmas! The are "Christmas fairs" in every town, village, school, etc. They seem to be anything from a few tents and stalls selling foods and crafts up to an entire special event with store sales, games, etc.

I moved into our new house yesterday! We're working with the town council to get the schools all setup and I'm really excited about all of it, looking good! I even got a chance to hang out late in a pub last night with a new neighbour, great times.

There's a big difference between leading a car in the states and getting one in the UK. Test drives are called "demonstrations" and they're not 15 minutes along with a pressured over the top sales pitch. You schedule a demo, they drop the car off at your house for you, you can keep it for up to text weeks?! Then they come pick it up! In my situation it's going to take 10-14 weeks for the actual car to be delivered (maybe that's normal?) after I demo 2-3 cars, so they have a "mini lease" that's basically a car rental for those 10-14 weeks whilst i wait for the real car. So far, it's a really nice system, albeit a little slow I guess, we'll see how the relative pricing works out.