Sunday, November 05, 2006
 | We moved into our new permanent place in St Heliers on Thursday. The most astounding series of events occurred: our sea container arrived on time in Auckland and it arrived at our new place when the movers said it would. I really hadn't expected this punctuality based on other peoples' horror stories and my own experience with our air freight which arrived two weeks later than scheduled. |
 | The container driver turned out to be a Dutch transvestite wearing his work uniform. It took me awhile to put this together because his nail polish was very chipped from his work and the other packer was commenting on it in a very low talker voice so I only caught every third word. |
| This weekend has been exhausting with lots of running around moving our stuff from our temporary pad to our permanent place and unpacking the 129 boxes from the sea freight into the house. I ache in many places and I have bruises all over. Tomorrow should be exciting as after work I'm joining a few other women to prepare for an adventure race on Sat Nov 11th. It should involve getting wet several times. More news about that later. It's Guy Fawkes Fireworks Extravaganza Night Two tonight. Everyone goes crazy in their backyards. Last night Adam went to the speedway with my relative Kerry & his son Andrew and I stayed back with my cousin Liz. We climbed Mt Eden (a small inactive volcano - there are like 14 of them scattered throughout the city) and watched the big fireworks from the top. | |
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# posted by Margaret @ 12:42 AM 
