When we woke up today there were not too many plans on our plates. Lesley had a haircut appointment in the morning and we went with her when she left so we could all swing by the offices of the moving company and check on the whereabouts of the truck containing all of their furniture. The truck was supposed to be delivered to their house on the 25th of November and there was talk that the container had recently cleared the Zambian border and was about to be delivered. We were told by one of the employees, Ittish, at the moving company that the truck was busy delivering a car from one of its containers and should be with us at the new house in the next two hours! Lesley needed to make her appointment so dropped Jenny and I off at the new house to wait for the containers arrival.
Dan and joe fitted the oven to its electricity but didn't have a socket wrench to finish the job, and we have one in the container so they had to wait. I went outside and started threading the ivy along the one wall into the metal runners above. Mum had been doing that for a while, and trained a lot of the ivy through the runners, but what she hadn't realised is that long tendrils of ivy had snuck over the wall and were hanging uselessly on the other side. It took me about two hours to go along the entire wall feeling for the runaway ivy and threading it through the fence. What I didn't realise as I was doing it is that it was a lot hotter and sunnier than I felt, and I burnt myself quite badly on my back, neck and arms! None the less, I was really proud of what I had achieved when I eventually went to sit down on the porch and could barely see the next door house any longer.
I managed to burn a stupid pattern onto my back because the top I was wearing had a ribbon with a bow on the back. Oh well, at least Dan got a good laugh out of it :) Mum eventually got back from her hair with the news that the man who was driving the truck was on his lunch! When we phoned back later to find out where our stuff was, it turned out that the man had finished his lunch and driven halfway across town to another place!! Thankfully mm was able to get a man there to help direct the driver near us, and we waited at 4:15pm next to a church down the road from our house, to direct him the rest of the way. The truck was absolutely massive!!! It had two 20 foot containers on it, and we were actually not sure it would make it down the drive to the house.
He managed to get the truck in and angled such that we could get to our container as the opening was opposite the cab of the truck. Dad had asked the men building flats on the same property as out house to come and help us unpack, which I'm eternally grateful for as the container was at least 8 feet above the ground, and more than half the contents were extremely heavy. We had the house unpacked in under an hour and dad paid the guys for their help. Because of how late the container arrived at the house we decided to leave the unpacking till tomorrow morning. We had to wait a little while to be able to go back to Pierre's house where we were sleeping for the last night, because the truck could not get back up the driveway. He struggled for at least half an hour to reverse the truck back up the gravel drive and eventually managed to turn around and drive up the driveway.
When we left to go home we found out that the truck had managed to destroy half of a tree that was on the road leading to mum and dads complex. Our drive home was thankfully easy because we managed to miss the worst of the traffic. Mum and I went straight home and Dan and daddy went to go buy us some pizza for dinner, no one could be bothered to cook. They bought three pizzas, an Hawaiian, a BBQ chicken and four seasons. After some tv and tea we all went to bed pretty exhausted from the days antics, and looking forward to unpacking tomorrow.
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