What's This? Where the Hell Is That?

As the trauma of yet another move subsides and we thankfully slip back into some kind of domestic peace and normality, (We think we're quite normal even if you don't!) you begin to remember things that you once had and wonder where on earth they could be? You also wonder how some things managed to even get packed into your boxes and shipped in the first place.

What's This? Several open bags of assorted and now spilt spices and some lentils? - I know I said 'bin them'. Ahem... A couple of mosquitos - I kid you not - alive and kicking, how on earth did those little devils stow away and make it all this way? It won't be long until they rule the earth. Being the ace mosquito swatter that I now am they will not be introducing malaria or dengue into North Carolina anytime soon. One rollerskate? Assorted useless plastic containers? probably from take-aways - didn't even know we had them, the containers that is, why were they kept? One set of completely battered and trashed, and I mean trashed saucepans and cooking utensils? A couple of half depleted plug-in mosquito repellants? And....3 toilet brushes and 8 rolls of Indian toilet paper???...thanks packers - but NO thanks! I can now buy Andrex and Charmin - no more 1-ply for us!

Where the Hell is? Framed hand prints of both the children aged 3 years and 6 months? The huge spotty plastic tablecloth which protected our dining room table so well? ALL of Luke's farm animals which I clearly remember packing into a plastic box and asking the packers to pack with the farm? The farm made it, the animals didn't? I know we had more books than we've ended up with and there are photographs missing? Every single pillow protector that we owned? Some bed sheets? There are several empty DVD cases? Our bank card reader that enabled us to make UK payments from overseas? Useless without the cards - we hope!

What was Damaged? Several picture frames, an occasional table - top split clean in half. My dressing table - top split almost in half. Kids play kitchen - stuffed in a box and in stood on to make it fit, fell apart this end. Ellie's dolls pram. One pouffe/foot stool, knackered, probably jumped on!

At the end of the day most of it doesn't even matter because 'things' can be replaced. Moments in time like handprints and photographs can't - fingers crossed they turn up.