fillymum
synful soul
My MIL is quite dippy. I am being polite here. I know she is only being kind BUT !!!
Friday we received notification from the post office .They had a package for me. Paul went to pick it up yesterday.........she had sent it registered post , so he had to come home, I had to sign a form and he had to take my passport................... nothing wrong with that ??? No, nothing until you know that the "package" is a box of 20 of fruit teabags !!!!!! Now any normal person would have put the teabags in an envelope and posted them as an ordinary letter for a fraction of what she paid. No.......let me take all of that back. A normal person would not post fruit teabags, that I can buy here, in the first place.
Hang on, I haven't finished yet.
Hard on the heels of that on Friday we had a phone-call from a transport guy to say he had 8 boxes for us.
MIL had sent us boxes of s/hand sheets and towels, a partly made pair of trousers, chopsticks, a candle, household junk in general, and left us to pick up the bill....140€ EEEEEEEK !!!!
There is light at the end of the tunnel though.
At the bottom of one of the boxes I discovered 8 absolutely wonderful African, hand carved, soapstone heads bought 40 or more years ago when the family lived in Rhodesia. They were sculpted by the Shona and the Zulu tribes.
African Art is so in vogue and I love it, so MIL I forgive you.
They could feature heavily at my next antiques fair in April.
Friday we received notification from the post office .They had a package for me. Paul went to pick it up yesterday.........she had sent it registered post , so he had to come home, I had to sign a form and he had to take my passport................... nothing wrong with that ??? No, nothing until you know that the "package" is a box of 20 of fruit teabags !!!!!! Now any normal person would have put the teabags in an envelope and posted them as an ordinary letter for a fraction of what she paid. No.......let me take all of that back. A normal person would not post fruit teabags, that I can buy here, in the first place.
Hang on, I haven't finished yet.
Hard on the heels of that on Friday we had a phone-call from a transport guy to say he had 8 boxes for us.
MIL had sent us boxes of s/hand sheets and towels, a partly made pair of trousers, chopsticks, a candle, household junk in general, and left us to pick up the bill....140€ EEEEEEEK !!!!
There is light at the end of the tunnel though.
At the bottom of one of the boxes I discovered 8 absolutely wonderful African, hand carved, soapstone heads bought 40 or more years ago when the family lived in Rhodesia. They were sculpted by the Shona and the Zulu tribes.
African Art is so in vogue and I love it, so MIL I forgive you.
They could feature heavily at my next antiques fair in April.