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Moving home
Jan. 23rd, 2018 01:15 pmVW vans have a weird control layout.
On the left of the steering wheel, are two stalks. One controls the indicators and windscreen wipers. The other controls the cruise control. Many times I meant to indicate left and found myself turning the speed down to 25mph.
Still, it was useful to have a big van for moving. We have a lot of crap to move. Probably way too much. And we're not feeling well. And we ran out of boxes.
On the plus side, we did have a willing volunteer to assist on the Friday in the form of a Martin. He helped move wardrobe and bookcases and mattress. Unfortunately, the Z-shaped hallway meant getting the wardrobe out in one piece resulted in re-enacting a certain Bernard Cribbins song.
Saturday and Sunday we had the benefit of a Skyblaze and Shadow. We had a van so went to Ikea to get more bookcases for the epic library of Flickums. Shadow turned out to be a master of box Tetris. Also good at assembling Ikea furniture.
Then their train was replaced by a bus replacement service, so gave them a lift home. Took a bit of time out of the day, but it was nice to drive. Plus after driving a big heavy van (even if it was surprisingly nimble), driving a car I'm familiar with was really nice!
That just left boxes. The place is invaded by boxes! So many boxes.
On the left of the steering wheel, are two stalks. One controls the indicators and windscreen wipers. The other controls the cruise control. Many times I meant to indicate left and found myself turning the speed down to 25mph.
Still, it was useful to have a big van for moving. We have a lot of crap to move. Probably way too much. And we're not feeling well. And we ran out of boxes.
On the plus side, we did have a willing volunteer to assist on the Friday in the form of a Martin. He helped move wardrobe and bookcases and mattress. Unfortunately, the Z-shaped hallway meant getting the wardrobe out in one piece resulted in re-enacting a certain Bernard Cribbins song.
Saturday and Sunday we had the benefit of a Skyblaze and Shadow. We had a van so went to Ikea to get more bookcases for the epic library of Flickums. Shadow turned out to be a master of box Tetris. Also good at assembling Ikea furniture.
Then their train was replaced by a bus replacement service, so gave them a lift home. Took a bit of time out of the day, but it was nice to drive. Plus after driving a big heavy van (even if it was surprisingly nimble), driving a car I'm familiar with was really nice!
That just left boxes. The place is invaded by boxes! So many boxes.
