Hi Chumz,
no photos today – although I did take some, but I don’t know how to upload them. Well, the people came to fetch the hire furniture today, closely followed by the removal company and our container. There was a humourless foreman called Errol and 3 lads who were quite jolly. They tended to have a more casual attitude to our worldly goods then I did and I had to work hard at being civil when one of them dropped a box labelled glasses. I haven’t opened all of that one yet. At least all our stuff actually fitted inside the house, I was a bit worried that it wouldn’t.
In the afternoon MAF the biological police came along. Victor, our inspector, told me right away that all horse items have to be sent away to be cleaned and that is mandatory. No-one had told us that – if I’d known I wouldn’t have bothered cleaning it so well, so I phoned the lady who had been dealing with us to ask her who would pay for this. Hopefully not us! She also said it was a bit arbitrary this mandatoryness re horsey stuff. He also found 3 dead leaves in the girls’ craft stuff – I’d had no idea they had anything like that there. He had to take them away too – but I don’t want them back.
Everything that I had cleaned passed the test! Then Victor asked how many riding hats there were. 2 I replied. There was only one in the box. Victor tells me he will be there for 15 more minutes and if I haven’t found it by then, they would have to come back out to collect it, which would be even more expensive. There followed a frantic search in all the boxes labelled “shed” to find the hat, which I did. Phew. Meanwhile someone came along to do a quote for tidying up the garden.
Fortunately, my new friend Debbie (pronounced Dibbie, though not by me) picked the girls up from school and took them back to her house for an hour or so, so they missed the riding hat fun. Debbie has been like an angel sent for us. She had lent us some bedding and some toys and when she came back with the girls this avo, she had brought some dinner for us too. And some one else lovely from church is going to bring us our dinner tomorrow night. How brilliant is that!
Currently we have the kitchen table and the dining table in the same room. The removal guys were quite confused about that.
The girls are very pleased to have their own stuff around them, I know Dave will be pleased to have his computer back. I fell bad about moaning about the amount of dust left here, when I saw the state of some of our stuff. I am glad to have it all here, but predict that I will feel a bit sad now, as having it all here really means that this is it, here we are on the other side of the world. Ho hum.