Above - My new view - not quite up to previous standards.
Above - The bathroom.
Above - My room.
Above - The kitchen.
Above - The other side of the kitchen.
Above - From the outside.
Above - The lounge.
Above - My room. Here is my new accommodation. Although the view isn't quite what I'm used to and I do seem to have traded my sea view in for one of a carpark the house itself is actually quite nice. There is a kitchen, lounge, dining area, bathroom and second toilet and four bedrooms. So I share with three other people - Silvia, Marylena and Dan. Silvia is Italian - she came to England to study at university and decided to stay. She's 28 and currently working for Kimberley Clarke. Marylena is here studying English as a foreign language, I'd say she was lower intermediate. Dan is 24 and works for American Express, he's doing a degree in Social Science part time through the Open University.
I quite like it here. It's clean. It's organised - we have made a cleaning rota and have a kitty for toilet paper and washing up liquid. All is good so far.
Giving this post a title however has posed the question: Is 'accommodation' a count or non count noun? There seems to be no clear cut answer. I guess it depends on the individual - do you find the title of this post awkward? And, interestingly, when I was coming to Brighton by train today I heard the security announcement warning against leaving items of luggage unattented "in the train or on the station". I question the use of prepositions here - although it's logical to say 'in the train' would we actually say 'I'm in the train at the moment'? and 'I'm on the station at the moment'? Surely they've got this the wrong way round?!!
