NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET!

Well, not Elm. But in Cotts.

Firstly as we're trying to get everything out of the three bedrooms the large cardboard carton with paintings collapsed and glass shattered everywhere. There goes my glass framed papyrus from Egypt.

We set about cleaning all that up. More to dump. Why aren't there more bins?

Then the carpet layer arrived this morning and asked, "Whose taking up the carpet?"

"Um...................you?"

He said that's not his job. And he took one look at the carpet and asked why the measurers hadn't been to measure up the job. The skirting was layed after the first carpet, sisal, was layed and all the skirting boards had to be lifted.

Great.

Greg has just painted the skirting boards.

Whose idea was this anyway?

After we both panicked and tried to work out what to do, thinking we'd just have to toss the carpet and rent the place out without even cleaning it the man says, "Unless we lay straight over the top and use what's there as underlay!"

DONE DEAL.

The man's working on it now...talk about a crisis.

Now to book accommodation in Cape Town and Madrid because we land in both places at ungodly hours.

Thank god the cleaners for the rest of the house and windows are coming tomorrow. I couldn't have coped with the stress of having to do all that as well as all the running around we have to do today - organising accountants and real estates and international licences and the list goes on.........

2 days to go.

And i haven't bought a jacket yet. Mum says Hong Kong and South Africa has nice weather, Madrid is cold!

Will we make it to the plane on time?