All Boxed in

Apologies for the lack of updates. This has been due to me spending all my lunchtimes this week filling in labels. Labels for all the packing crates I have spent the last month filling up. I have labels for TNT to tell TNT where the packing crates have come from (current address written out 30 times). I have destination labels, to tell someone (not sure who) what address the boxes are to go to. There is another space on each destination label for the address of the person who needs to be told (not sure by whom) that the boxes have arrived. This means I have written out our new address 60 times. There are also spaces on the destination labels to fill in our name, the destination city, the shipping reference number, a telephone number, a fax number and an email address. In order to fit all this information on, each destination label was 6 inches square. My roll of destination labels was over 15 feet long. And if this wasn't enough, I also had to write half of this out on the boxes themselves - TWICE - once on the top and once on the side. No wonder I am delirious.

My task last night was to stick all the labels on the boxes and seal them. I finally finished at 1.10am. But even then, I didn't quite dare to tape down the final (not quite full) box - just in case something that had to be packed might materialise overnight. Luckily, when I got back up at 5.10am, I had no such worries and stuck the lid down without a second thought. The boxes are due to be collected at 2pm this afternoon. Hopefully, by the time I get home, they will have all disappeared. For some reason, despite the yards of labels, I feel quite certain I will never see any of them again.