A flat in London?

As I mentioned in an earlier LJ entry, it looks like bootpunk is going to need the room I'm now living in before the end of the year, so I'm looking for somewhere new in London to live before then.

• I want to share a flat, is anyone else looking for a flat share?
• Where in London should I live?
• How much rent should I expect to pay? Update I think the £100pw cost of that Tooting flat is about the limit of what I'd want to try and pay.

I want to live near Lisa and Lili, who live very near Streatham station. But I'd also prefer to live somewhere that was on the Tube so I can get into London more easily. One possibility is this flat as mentioned in Howard's journal. It has the huge advantage of being about fifteen minutes walk from Lisa and Lili. But from what he says I'd have to move out again in a year. Alternatively, Brixton has been suggested as a good place to live, handy for the bus to Streatham but also for the Victoria line which takes me rapidly into London and on to the burgeoning bisexual ghetto in Walthamstow. julietk has told me I should live in Bermondsey, which is apparently cheap and handy for London Bridge which has frequent trains to Streatham. Thoughts, ideas?

Cheap computer bits

Here's an easier one. Where do you go in London to buy things like cheap spindles of CD-Rs? In the wonderfully dodgy Silicon Group in Edinburgh, you can buy 100 CD-Rs for £18, with no packaging except a circle of plastic at either end and shrink wrap. I also need to buy a replacement keyboard, black ink for a HP DeskJet 690C, and a cable that plugs a sound card into a hi-fi.

Is there a particularly good shop on Tottenham Court Road that's worth checking first, or are the best bargains to be had away from TCR?

Reloaded!

Just booked tickets for the 2003-05-22 1845 showing of The Matrix Reloaded at Warner Village Leicester Square. Rar!

Now to book Whitby tickets...