Welcome to 27 Macdonald Road

Welcome to Our Home

Discover important information for your stay, including how to use our Smart home, and how to look after Socks.

Smart Home Control

Obviously, some of the house is automated, so make sure you know how to control some of the important things.

Caring for Socks

Find instructions on feeding Socks and maintaining her litter box while we're away.

Explore the local area, including bus and train connections for easy travel.

Local Info

Smart Home Control

You'll see Google Home devices around the house.

To speak to them, just say 'Hey Google' or 'Okay Google' and then give it your command.

Top tip:

When you're tucked up in bed, you can turn off all the lights and turn the heating down with the command: 'Hey Google, good night!'

Lighting

You can ask Google anything, but you will need to speak to Google to control some of the lights.

You just need to say "Hey Google, turn on/off the NAME OF LIGHTS" replacing 'NAME OF LIGHTS' with one of these:

• Hall light

• Living Room Lamps

• Landing Light

• Dining Room Lamp

For example, to turn the hall light on, say: 'Hey Google, turn on the Hall light'.

Heating

Heating is separated out so that you can control the downstairs and upstairs.

Heating is set to a schedule, but you can also manually control the heat using the Nest Thermostats.

• The downstairs thermostat in on the wall in the kitchen

• The upstairs thermostat is on the white side unit in the yellow room

Just rotate the metal band to set the temperature higher or lower.

Socks

Thank you for looking after Socks

Food

Her dry food is automatic, but she also likes a teaspoon of wet food every morning.

There might be an open packet in the fridge. When you get up in the morning, call her and put a teaspoon into her ceramic dish. Use the pink clip to keep the food fresh.

She also has some treats and you can give her some of those - they're a great way to befriend her!

Water

Please keep her water fountain topped up - you can see a 'min' and 'max' line in the spout at the front.

Litter tray

Please use one of the small black poop bags to pick up her solid waste, tie it up, and put it in the black bin outside.

Once a week, please replace the cat litter. Simply remove the white liner, tie it up, and put it in the black bin outside. Replace it by putting in a new liner and adding a layer of cat litter, about 5cm deep.

Exercise

Socks is getting on a bit now so will spend most of her day sleeping, but she does like to go outside, especially if it's sunny.

Please only let her out the back door, and make sure she comes back inside if you go out.

Please don't let her out the front door: she will try, but don't let her succeed!

Going out

It's absolutely fine to leave Socks at home on her own all day, just make sure she's inside and you've topped up her water. Please give her a bit of a fuss when you come back.

Our Local Area

Find essential local transport connections and amenities to make your stay comfortable and convenient while enjoying our home.

Our address

27 Macdonald Road, E17 4AY

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Local transport

Nearest Train Station

• Wood Street, on the Weaver Line (to Liverpool Street)

• Walthamstow Central (Victoria Line) is a 25-30 minute walk.

Bus stops

• Victoria Road for the 212 to Walthamstow Central or the W16 to Wood Street and Leytonstone

• Thorpe Hall Road for the 275 to Walthamstow Central

Local shops

Bakery

• For good sandwiches and cakes, check out Wood Street Bakery

• For fresh sourdough loaves and excellent pastries, visit Chocolatine Bakery

  
  

Drinks

• The best local pub is the Royal Oak in Highams Park, especially if you want a traditional boozer.

• Other good local beer places are Clapton Craft and Wood Street Bear. The Bear also does cocktails.

• Head into Walthamstow village for cocktails at Bargo or Mother's Ruin.

Eating out

• If you want an excellent Poke bowl for lunch, head to Peeld in Walthamstow Village. They're also on Deliveroo.

• For good Italian, head to Art E Pasta.

Supermarkets

• For any quick needs, the corner shop on Fulbourne Road is surprisingly good. There is also a Budgens, Tesco Express, and Co-Op.

• For bigger shops, there is an Asda, Lidl, and Sainsbury's in Walthamstow town centre.

• There is a proper Tesco in Highams Park which is one stop up on the Weaver Line.

• The nearest Waitrose and Marks and Spencer are in Woodford but these are tricky to get to on public transport.

• All supermarkets deliver here.