The furniture has arrived!

Yes, rolled up at 11am (ish) today - two very cheerful and helpful young men. Very careful. I was a bit worried about the vinyl flooring which was only laid yesterday, but all was well.

And what a difference it makes. It may still be in a bit of a muddle, and there may be boxes everywhere, but it makes you feel so good to have your own stuff around. It is beginning to look like home now.

A bit like Christmas too, especially those boxes we didn't pack ourselves. Everything is wrapped, and you pull things out, have a feel to see if you can guess what it is, and then think 'oh yeah, wow, I forgot about that' when it appears out of the paper. Some of the boxes are full of styrofoam bits, so delving in there is like delving into a luck dip bin!

I expected there to have been casualties - no matter how carefully things are wrapped they are going on a ship halfway around the world, and it seems a miracle to me that things arrive at all, let alone in one piece. So far the only broken item is the microwave, but it was insured so that will soon be sorted.

There is the mystery over the washing machine however. Darran nearly had it plumbed in before the fact that the plug had been taken off it alerted him to the fact that it wasn't actually ours. So, who does have ours, and who's have we got??

Typically the office is closed for the weekend, so we will have to wait until Monday to work that one out!

In the meantime, there is unpacking to be done, and more surprises to unearth (albeit of things that we own but can't remember after 2 months).

Cheryl xx