First morning
First morning in the new place and we couldn’t even sleep in. Not that the stretchers were all that comfortable anyway! But the reason we had to get up bright and early was that all our UK stuff was finally arriving, along with the first batch of furniture. Including proper beds for us to sleep on!
Just like the removal company said they would, they arrived here bright and early at 8am. Actually, they were here at 7.55am. I am not sure that ever happened to us in the UK, a delivery happening when they said it would be there!
It was a hive of activity and there were boxes of this and that every where, not to mention new furniture. And my role (only because I felt useless standing around doing nothing) in the whole unloading process was to fold the blankets they came wrapped/covered in to protect them in transit. And to try to empty at least some of the boxes so they could take some of the empties away to give us a bit more room…
It was pretty exciting seeing our 85 boxes again, all there, all accounted for and with minimal breakage. You’ll be pleased to know that all the wine made it intact, something we were obviously quite anxious about over the last year of waiting to be reunited. Only breakages were a couple of bowls and plates and some plastic wheels on a piece of furniture, and we can live with that.
And of course once you have 85 packed boxes, all that’s left to do is unpack them! That has been mostly fun, finding hidden treasures, reminiscing over nic nacs from around the world, looking at clothes I am not so sure will fit any more, having more than one jacket and handbag to choose from again, and then of course for Mike there are all the computers to play with again. It really was like Christmas – but way better cause you actually got stuff you wanted!