Moving Day

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH

Up early with the sparrows as the removilists were going to be there at 7.30.....where they on time, not on your nelly, it was closer to 8 when they arrived...hmm they said they would have a big truck...what turned up was not quite what we were expecting...yes, it was big but we were expecting the long soft sided truck similar to what they used to take our furniture into storage, and we knew we were getting two trucks, oh well!  We went with Allied Pickford as they did such a good job last time, these guys were not upto the same standard....thank god we had already taken Tony's equip up.
Kelly called by and dropped Mia off, so we took the opportunity to load her car up with the remaining stuff from her room, off she went to get her Aunt, we then loaded up Tony's car and mine as well.  Tony then headed off the the storage units to await the second truck, the first truck arrived just at Tony was getting ready to go, the second truck turned up at Roxburgh Park about half an hour later...poor Tony sitting down there waiting for them.
After they left Adrians, I headed up to our house...."our house" doesn't that have a nice ring to it....lol
Did a few bits and pieces and sat down waiting for everyone to arrive, Kelly and Jeanette arrived first around 10ish.....made a cuppa and waited, and waited.....and waited.....they were soooooo slow, thank god we weren't paying them by the hour.
While we were waiting the man arrived to commission my fireplace....its soooo nice.
Once they did arrive it was full on.....
Adrian came up as well, he had worked in the morning.
I had itemised everything in everybox this time...especially as most of the boxes were going into storage......it made it alot easier, as i had also given every room a different colour bit of paper....eg  master bedroom was bright yellow, dining room was red......in my masterbook i had seperate pages for each room and wrote down each box number and what was in it.....this would have really worked if the removalists had put the boxes into the correct rooms....there was one guy who was particulary lazy and just shoved them anywhere.
But, where this system comes into its own is when you are unpacking....Jeanette and I were looking for the crockery to use for lunch, according to my book they were in box 17, 18 & 19 for the kitchen.....and so they were!  much better than opening every box looking for them.

Jeanette and Adrian unpacked all the new furniture and set them up....Thank you guys, it really did help.
I spent most of my time out with the truck directing them into which rooms the furniture and the boxes had to go to. Kelly took over for a while when mum and Reg arrived to have a look.  To be honest i couldn't tell you what Tony did, but for the first time he didn't have to move furniture and really stuff up his back.

Adee went back home and picked up Ash after she finished work.

Went out for dinner, then Tony took Jeanette back to Melton, while Adee and Ash went home as they both had early starts the next day.  Kell and I stayed at home and put a few more things away.

What was the best part of the day....my bed!!!  boy have i missed it.