Why did Karl Marx only drink herbal tea?
31.07.2014
After a long three months at sea, our stuff has arrived from the UK. After a quick customs check and the destruction of a beloved Christmas decoration ($300 to have it treated or $60 to have it destroyed) it was shipped to Canberra for temporary storage in Bobby and Di's garage (sorry Booby and DI!). This has given us a couple of problems, our flat is too small to store everything and Canberra is over 700k away.
So we decided to hire a van (called Selma) and drive on Friday night (11th July) for about four hours, stop over in Albury for a few hours sleep, then head at the crack of sparrows for another four hours to Canberra. After that would be a day of sorting through boxes before heading back early on Sunday to get Selma back before 8pm that evening.
I think we slightly misjudged the size of the van and the amount of stuff we had to collect, we only managed to bring back about 50 per cent of what we needed/wanted. Now, the people who packed all our stuff in England were very quick and efficient, and wrote on every box which room it was from and a description on what was in it. The problem was we didn't expect them to split things across a number of boxes (I guess they assumed we would be unpacking everything at once). So, as a result, we have TV's without remotes, parts of my stereo missing, half a dining chair, computer without hard drives and I'm also missing one of my guitars. I'm sure all the missing bits are there, we just haven't managed to locate them yet... The 50 per cent of what we needed only turned out to be 15 per cent usable. We are going to give Danielle's Dad a list of all the things we are missing and let him go on a treasure hunt in all the boxes left in the garage.
We did have a lovely evening out in Canberra at the local Austrian club with schnitzel and bratkartoffeln and some Austrian beer – Canberra continues to surprise! This was a warm up for our skiing trip in a few weeks.
Because all proper tea is theft.
After a long three months at sea, our stuff has arrived from the UK. After a quick customs check and the destruction of a beloved Christmas decoration ($300 to have it treated or $60 to have it destroyed) it was shipped to Canberra for temporary storage in Bobby and Di's garage (sorry Booby and DI!). This has given us a couple of problems, our flat is too small to store everything and Canberra is over 700k away.
So we decided to hire a van (called Selma) and drive on Friday night (11th July) for about four hours, stop over in Albury for a few hours sleep, then head at the crack of sparrows for another four hours to Canberra. After that would be a day of sorting through boxes before heading back early on Sunday to get Selma back before 8pm that evening.
I think we slightly misjudged the size of the van and the amount of stuff we had to collect, we only managed to bring back about 50 per cent of what we needed/wanted. Now, the people who packed all our stuff in England were very quick and efficient, and wrote on every box which room it was from and a description on what was in it. The problem was we didn't expect them to split things across a number of boxes (I guess they assumed we would be unpacking everything at once). So, as a result, we have TV's without remotes, parts of my stereo missing, half a dining chair, computer without hard drives and I'm also missing one of my guitars. I'm sure all the missing bits are there, we just haven't managed to locate them yet... The 50 per cent of what we needed only turned out to be 15 per cent usable. We are going to give Danielle's Dad a list of all the things we are missing and let him go on a treasure hunt in all the boxes left in the garage.
We did have a lovely evening out in Canberra at the local Austrian club with schnitzel and bratkartoffeln and some Austrian beer – Canberra continues to surprise! This was a warm up for our skiing trip in a few weeks.
Because all proper tea is theft.
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| Thankfully, my turntable arrived in one piece. |
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