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OUR POSSESSIONS RELEASED:.

Wednesday 22nd October.. and by lunchtime the truck had arrived from The Cape, packed with our worldly goods which, once offloaded, by the side of the factory, looked like the lions share of a jumble sale.
They have taken a serious beating in the 9 weeks since they left Beacon Cottage.!

With the assistance of 12 inquisitive factory workers and a fork lift truck, all possessions installed inside the factory, [which is very clear of stock at the moment as we approach the end of the season]. When the farm is ready we will begin to upload and unpack it there, Bossy did not insure it,which I knew he wouldn’t, so I have chosen to be grown up about the losses, both immediate and those that reveal themselves over the weeks.

The factory workers, who do and don’t read English were fascinated by my indelible black annotations on the side of all boxes, they became like kids shrieking to each other…LITTLES BOOKS and BIGS UNDERWEAR & SOX, [whoops of delight!] it became something of an event..someone would screech, BEE`S BED and someone else would shout BIG`s TIES [yes a entire box!], the gang would all howl with laughter, finding something else to cause even more hilarity.
No one would touch the very strange large white popper wrapped beehive shaped parcel that contained my big brass Arabian pot…one of the moving guys in UK had written STRANGE ASIAN ARTIFACT, and the workers treated it as if it was some kind of Voodoo object, skirting around it, doing the very white eye thing that only they can do, treating it with great suspicion.