Well blow me down with a feather, we have moved our stuff two thousand, or so, miles from EK to Taberno and nothing of any significance got damaged. As it is getting comparatively cold at night we decided to hunt out our winter duvet (we used the summer 4.5 tog all the year round at EK). Well we couldn’t really remember what it was packed in or in which box, so we started a search of the most likely boxes, using the descriptions that we had written on the outside of each box, the last time that we searched. We obviously didn’t mark the boxes very well because we can’t find the blessed winter duvet. Whilst we were moving most of the contents of the portacabin in our search, we moved a nest of tables that we had stacked upside down on top of some more boxes and right in the far corner, out of the way. What we failed to fully appreciate was that the tables were very heavy and we had only allowed limited foot/standing space, also that we had stashed in the legs and behind the wrought iron upside down nest of tables, two very well wrapped but very delicate Galileo Thermometers. One or two of you may remember these from seeing them on our kitchen window sill at EK. If you do remember them please keep hold onto the memory because they are no more. They both broke and splintered into thousands of pieces, all the little coloured balls were shattered, but worst of all ,twenty two pints, of the very best glycerine cascaded down and all over the items below and into bags that contained Elayne’s shoes, and documents and three of my tennis racquets. What a mess. We have had to sop up the worst of it all with kitchen towel and hang bags and things out to drain on the nearest almond tree, see picture, the cats look on bemused. We both had minor, but bloody, little cuts from the glass splinters, as we spent an hour or so trying to clean up the oily mess. What a pair of chumps we are.
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