Trigirl
25th November 2006, 12:06 AM
Reading Nicola's post was like reading about our own lives here at the moment - its so strange (and nice) hearing about others doing the same as us.
Yesterday we waved good bye to all our stuff in a container. Its an odd feeling - as many of you already know. We'll be reunited with it all in 9 weeks or so in Wellington.
The process was a bit harder than we expected. The John Masons lads did a great job but were let down by the shipping co who sent us a container dripping wet inside having just been steam cleaned! water was dripping from the ceiling and running down the walls. I was very lucky in that I overheard one of the lads phone into the office to ask them what to do - otherwise i'd probably not have noticed. john masons had said go ahead and load but once i took a look there was no way our stuff was going in it. we sent it away and settled down to wait to hear if they could find us another container the same day or if we'd have to wait till the next day.
they got one to us very quickly in fact - it turned up about 3.30 but by then the light was fading fast and the lads had to work so quickly to get it packed (the whole contents of my house went in that container in under 30 mins!)
Anyway its all gone now. Its Marks last day at work today and then we've got 10 days of seeing friends and family and then we're off! Our house completes on 1st December and we fly on the 4th.
Yesterday we waved good bye to all our stuff in a container. Its an odd feeling - as many of you already know. We'll be reunited with it all in 9 weeks or so in Wellington.
The process was a bit harder than we expected. The John Masons lads did a great job but were let down by the shipping co who sent us a container dripping wet inside having just been steam cleaned! water was dripping from the ceiling and running down the walls. I was very lucky in that I overheard one of the lads phone into the office to ask them what to do - otherwise i'd probably not have noticed. john masons had said go ahead and load but once i took a look there was no way our stuff was going in it. we sent it away and settled down to wait to hear if they could find us another container the same day or if we'd have to wait till the next day.
they got one to us very quickly in fact - it turned up about 3.30 but by then the light was fading fast and the lads had to work so quickly to get it packed (the whole contents of my house went in that container in under 30 mins!)
Anyway its all gone now. Its Marks last day at work today and then we've got 10 days of seeing friends and family and then we're off! Our house completes on 1st December and we fly on the 4th.