Life in community is great most of the time but occasionally I think that it would be easier to live on my own. This has been in more obvious in the last couple of weeks
Illness - once one of us gets ill, very soon we all do. This time it all started with a cough, however this was no ordinary cough, it was a cough that belonged to our youngest house-member who is only 3 (and 3/4) and still learning the concept of covering her mouth when she coughs! This meant that within about 5 days half the house had come down with her cold. This again wouldn't have been too bad apart from her cold then morphed into Chicken-pox, something that had gone around her play group last month. She then had a bad allergic reaction to some off the medication she was on which was miss-diagnosed as potentially scarlet fever leading to five days of quarantine of the flat and therefore no access to a washing machine (this lead to some funny clothing choices by the end)! We are now all (basically) recovered and hoping that this was the last major illness of the winter
Hot Water - we live in a very old house, which has 10 showers and 21 people most of the time and only one hot water tank. Most of the time this is ok and everyone gets hot showers but every so often it doesn't workout so well. Last week the hot water system decided that it didn't want to play-ball any more and so we had a few days when only the earliest risers got hot water until someone was able to come and fix the system.
I do enjoy community, and I know how much I'll miss it when I leave, but I am looking forward to the day when I know my internet wont cut out on me when I'm on skype because someone else is streaming something, and I can guarantee a hot shower in the morning!
