looking for a place to live in London

I’ve been posting about this on Facebook and Twitter, to no avail. Time to spread the word here.
I need to find a new place to live in London by the end of January. I’m not kidding when I say I’m on a starving-writer’s budget. A flatshare or lodger situation is what I’m seeking. Housesitting and/or petsitting would work, too. I need to be able to get into the West End area of Central London without too much hassle or too long a commute. I need unlimited broadband so I can work, which is pretty much all I do when I’m home. I don’t smoke, and I’m not a party person. I like pets and they usually like me. I’ve never ever not paid a bill on time in my entire life.

I’m getting pretty desperate. Anyone who knows anyone looking for a clean, quiet lodger or roommate, please let me know.

(What could, alternatively, help: everyone reading this either becoming a subscriber of FlickFilosopher.com or of my new project, Movie Cheat Sheet. Then I wouldn’t be a starving writer anymore.)

Thank you.

UPDATE: Need digs acquired. Alas, it’s not sharing a Baker Street flat with Sherlock Holmes, but it’ll do for now.

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Char
Char
Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:25pm

I’m on it… just asked a friend in London, she should get back to me soon.

Oliver Andersen Ward
Sat, Jan 12, 2013 5:04am

I can’t help you out, since I don’t live in the UK, but good luck to you. And I already subscribe to your site, so I hope others will do so too. Take care.

Isobel_A
Isobel_A
Sat, Jan 12, 2013 5:38pm

My only suggestion is spareroom.co.uk, which is set up for flat shares and people looking for lodgers. I could probably help you temporarily if you end up in dire need, but I’m the wrong side of London for you (out past Croydon to the South).

MaryAnn Johanson
reply to  Isobel_A
Sun, Jan 13, 2013 1:23am

I’ve been using SpareRoom (and MoveFlat, and Gumtree), and in fact via SpareRoom today I found a place.

Paul
reply to  MaryAnn Johanson
Sun, Jan 13, 2013 1:25pm

Someone from the 1950s would no doubt find that quite incredible.

Oops, sorry, wrong thread. I’ll get me coat.

(Congrats on finding somewhere, by the way)

Vanessa
Vanessa
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 6:08am

“Good times and bum times, I’ve seen them all

And, my dear–I’m still here

Plush velvet sometimes

Sometimes just pretzels and beer, but I’m here”
(Follies)

Congrats on the new arrangement