Well after exactly 7 weeks of being apart, today our sea freight shipment was returned to us. I never thought that I would be so pleased to see a shipping container. Box after box of our belongings were slowly unloaded and unpacked and it was like Christmas all over again. Since we are only going to be in this house until the summer there were many things that we didn't unpack but rather sent to "archive" (well that means the basement - it is a family habit to always rent a house with a whole extra floor for storage as those who knew us in Deanery Farm Oast will recall). Incredibly very few things were damaged and it is a great relief to have sleeping / eating and relaxing all returned to something more like normal. The good news is that despite gloomy predictions a surprising number of our electrics are all up and running - our TV, DVD and wii all appear to work perfectly. Our kitchen appliances are a bit sorry for themselves though, running really very slowly, so some shopping will be needed to replace at least the essential hand mixer to keep the cakes coming. Fortunately the shippers removed all spare packaging so we are saved the creative efforts of building a space station to go with the rocket (see earlier posts).
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