3 Scrabbles and 30 Teacups
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:20PM I've been on a long winding journey and it has come to an end. I am unpacking and settling in gorgeous Mapleton in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast.
To explain the length and windingness:
I intended to leave Perth about 3 years ago so I put my stuff in storage as I prepared to go. Then a couple of relationships got in the way, delaying my travels for 2 years. In that time most of my things stayed packed and others came in and out of storage. When I finally left in the van I packed it all away again.
But the day has finally come where all boxes of things ever stored anywhere have been sent to me in one fell swoop (disguised as a truck).
I'm only part way through unpacking and already I have counted 3 Scrabble sets, 5 sieves, 40 spoons and more teacups than you can throw a teaparty at.
I sort of feel sick at the wasted money, and quite disturbed by how I forgot that I ever owned those other 30 spoons. Some op shop is going to enjoy my drop off!
But the process has felt like Christmas. It's been a continual unwrapping of presents. I love opening things like old bottles full of Cottesloe beach memories...
It felt like such a party that I made some chocolate cupcakes to go with the occassion and danced around in the pink corduroys I found (circa 2003).
And when I was putting my party decoration gear into the cupboard I decided that waiting for a future party was stupid and I should enjoy my party stuff every day. So I ran up and down the backyard stringing up colourful flags.
My house is a dream worth travelling to. I'm opening it up to guests shortly and hope they come in droves to drink multiple cups of tea simultaneously as we play scrabble championships and make music with spoons.
Fruit and veges aplenty to snack on.
Almost ready...
[current mood] Sprouts & Listening to the unpacked Ipod
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Reader Comments (8)
Awesome :)
I so wish to come and have a cup of tea with you, as I feel I have so much to talk to you about even though I hardly know you. But I have my own adventures (Meekatharra! see blog!) and travels for now, not bringing me close to the Sunshine Coast any time soon. But who knows, my plans seem to change as often as the wind.
Enjoy your house, and the jobs sounds great too!
xx
I am so very excited for you!
Wonderful to be making a home, nesting and making it your own space - at LAST to have all your goodies out of storage!! I can empathise as we're in the storage stage at the moment :)
Do one of those scrabble sets have my name on it? I am missing the set with the dog-eaten box. It was a special 50th anniversary addition.
I am coming in October!!!! Don't know precise dates yet but will let you know soon. I am crap at scrabble (surprising, as I got 120/120 on a vocab/spelling test in year 9!) so you can enjoy beating me on all of your 3 sets. I do enjoy tea though and could definitely make some music with the spoons :-)
See you soon sweets x
Hey Nat ,
good luck with everything over there, looks like a sweet pad and your dog already looks at home:)
ian
how exciting! enjoy (though you hardly need advice, it appears!). wow. very inspiring, as always. thank you. : )
3 cups of tea and 3 games of scrabble, sounds like a recipe for peace to me :)
Nat, I am really excited to read that you finally found your place to be (at least for a while) and settled down. I get a big smile when thinking back of traveling with you, Oscar and Sprightly eastwards......you still being so unsure about what comes next, where to go and where to live. Oh...and it's a pleasure to see the Scrabble game we used to play during this pretty bad storm this one night, where u seemed to be a bit worried about sending me and Jürgen out of the van into our cosy tent :-)