We have furniture!

And internet!  Wow!

a most glorious sight

Yesterday, the movers arrived.  About two weeks later than we originally thought, but they arrived!  Apparently our container is half the size of the previous renters.  And their container hit a parked car getting out of the neighborhood (tight corners, lots of parked cars, and the owners of said cars not around) so everyone in the neighborhood was super jumpy.  Happy to say, no incidents ;)

after traveling across an ocean, not even half-way full

the boxes and wrapping papers we were able to unpack before the movers left

 There were two guys moving everything off the truck and into the house.  Compared with the two long days to pack everything up, with three guys one day and two the next, it all went relatively quickly.  We did have a slight issue with one of our couches - doors here are apparently fairly narrow, and the couch wouldn't fit through the front door!  The guys had to lift it over their heads, down the side of the yard over the fence, in through the rear sunroom double doors, and then into the back living room.  And there it will stay until we move again! Slight change of plans, but I'm sure all will work out fine in the end.
And then, today - internet!  The Virgin media guys came through to install cable.  First things first I asked them if they wanted any water.

No thanks, love.  Tea, black, no sugar.  

Well, alrighty then!  Welcome to England ;)

We're very happy to have all of our stuff and a means of interacting with the world outside of expensive phone calls. And something to do besides sit on a few cushions reading the same stories over and over! And dishes! And toys! And chairs!  And books!

not the offending couch