Boxes, boxes
Saturday, 4th November 2006 by Julie
Where did it all start… ?
Well back in South Africa – July 2001 – we packed up our entire flat to go into storage while we were away “temporarily” in the UK.
From there, for a fairly economical £40 a month, Elliott (as in “The Amazing”) looked after our goods very well all the way to July 2006 when we decided enough was enough.
So when we headed back to SA in July, all our stuff was delivered to the verandah of long-sufferering parents. Where we charged through it (in a week), packing up the bits we wanted and doing whatever was needed to get rid of the surplus…
Elliott’s ‘amazing’ incompetence lost them the contract for taking it all over to the UK for us, and we turned to Pickfords instead. And waved it all goodbye on 19 July as it left on its uninsured journey to London.
£420 and 15 weeks later, and we had it all back… (Well all the stuff we wanted anyway. 
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Only problem now is that the kitchen plans aren’t going to happen until January. So we’re going to be living with these (and they aren’t even half as neatly packed anymore!) until we get our new storage space!
