Make and Mend

This morning, at 9.30am on the dot, our boxes arrived. This was the air freight, which somehow ended up beating the sea freight after all. There were 6 boxes, which were unpacked and put away in less than 3 hours. I seem to remember it taking considerably longer to pack them. Amazingly (or maybe not so amazingly given how much bubble wrap I used to wrap each fragile item) there were only two breakages. One was a wine glass (and not an expensive one either), and the other was one of my Royal Doulton Images statues – Gift of Freedom – the dove’s wing had broken off. The Ayi whisked it away to carry out one of her repair jobs on it. She reappeared 15 minutes later, proudly bearing the ornament aloft. She had stuck the wing back on with sellotape.