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We are the removers!
Sep. 25th, 2016 09:27 amI really need to get rid of some of my crap!
Left work early. Picked up keys at letting agent and got a feel for the place. Letting agent was surprisingly quick and efficient. Gave me loads of time to pick up van. It was a pretty damn large van! But I needed that. Holly the evil satnav kept trying to tell me to "Make a u-turn". Not something I really want to do in a van, even if they do have good turning circles.
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flickums up at East Midlands Parkway. Parkway stations are in the middle of nowhere so have heaps of space for stopping a van at the pickup/drop-off area. So picked up a flickums. Arrived at Leicester. Ate pizza. Started watching film. Gave up because tired! Went to bed instead. Picked up a mattress on Saturday. Almost got the wrong one but nice man in the shop spotted that the mattress 4'6" and the bag was lying.
Parking in Leicester is always an adventure. A space opened up nearish the flat. Just along the T-junction opposite the flat. Took it as soon as possible. Another space opened up 4m closer. Reversed into that. Then, miraculously, a space opened up that was actually on the same street! Flickums was duly dispatched to stand in the space and prevent anyone from taking it in the minute or so it took me to drive round. Lucky that she did. Someone would have nabbed it without her there.
Spent hours loading stuff into the van, and playing box Tetris. Fitted everything in quite easily. Box avalanches caused: 1
Was getting late so decided everything else can be ferried back in a small, impractical sports car. Stopped at BK on the way back for a burger. Unloaded much of the van. Caused just 2 more box avalanches when unloading. Also everything had shuffled about when driving.
Once I had TV unloaded and router, I decided to fight the internet. I lost. The internet refused to function. Decided to call it a day, dump mattress on the floor and put sheets on it. We needed sleep!
Left work early. Picked up keys at letting agent and got a feel for the place. Letting agent was surprisingly quick and efficient. Gave me loads of time to pick up van. It was a pretty damn large van! But I needed that. Holly the evil satnav kept trying to tell me to "Make a u-turn". Not something I really want to do in a van, even if they do have good turning circles.
Had the cunning idea to pick
flickums up at East Midlands Parkway. Parkway stations are in the middle of nowhere so have heaps of space for stopping a van at the pickup/drop-off area. So picked up a flickums. Arrived at Leicester. Ate pizza. Started watching film. Gave up because tired! Went to bed instead. Picked up a mattress on Saturday. Almost got the wrong one but nice man in the shop spotted that the mattress 4'6" and the bag was lying.Parking in Leicester is always an adventure. A space opened up nearish the flat. Just along the T-junction opposite the flat. Took it as soon as possible. Another space opened up 4m closer. Reversed into that. Then, miraculously, a space opened up that was actually on the same street! Flickums was duly dispatched to stand in the space and prevent anyone from taking it in the minute or so it took me to drive round. Lucky that she did. Someone would have nabbed it without her there.
Spent hours loading stuff into the van, and playing box Tetris. Fitted everything in quite easily. Box avalanches caused: 1
Was getting late so decided everything else can be ferried back in a small, impractical sports car. Stopped at BK on the way back for a burger. Unloaded much of the van. Caused just 2 more box avalanches when unloading. Also everything had shuffled about when driving.
Once I had TV unloaded and router, I decided to fight the internet. I lost. The internet refused to function. Decided to call it a day, dump mattress on the floor and put sheets on it. We needed sleep!
