Hi Britta,
I hope your container of furniture arrives on time. 18 months ago my son
moved to New Zealand, his furniture went in a container, his new job paid
for accommodation for one month. He found and rented a house, still no
furniture. He moved in with a futon to sleep on, and one borrowed chair !
He missed his 2 cats so much that he had them sent over, he bought an
electric heat pad for them, and there they all stayed for weeks before his
furniture arrived. It seemed that the container was not full, so it stayed
here in OZ until it had a full load. I hope this does not happen to you !
Marie
from OZ







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Greetings from Malaysia!
We are all packed up and out of our house in Thailand. All our stuff
is
in
a shipping container and enroute to Australia.
Meanwhile, we are staying in a furnished 2 bedroom apartment in Penang,
Malaysia. We will be here until the time comes for Vino's appointment
with
jail in Perth. The soonest we could get him in was April 10, so on the
9th,
we'll be off. Dennis won't be coming with us because he has to return
to
work in Myanmar on the 11th.
In a way it works out because that gives me a chance to rent a house
and
get
all the furniture set up before Vino joins us after his 30 days
quarantine.
Yesterday the poor bugger had his throat shaved and blood taken from
the
jugular for the 2nd time in 6 months. The sample is also enroute to
Australia via Fedex.
The apartment where we are is pretty good for animal watching. Out
back
is
a large copse of trees where in the evenings is a large group of pretty
big
monkeys which are constantly fighting with each other. There is also
this
creek, which really swells up when it rains and we saw a giant monitor
lizard drifting along yesterday. There are also these bright turquoise
birds with yellow beaks.
The lady downstairs has 2 cats, both strays that showed up. One is a
small
orange boy with a 1/4 tail and the other is a heavily pregnant female
with
long hair and white with tabby spots. I've nicknamed her Wide Load.
Can't
wait to see the kittens! The lady said she has homes lined up for most
of
them. I hope she gets her spayed afterwards, I am going to ask her.
Dennis has to leave tomorrow night to go to Florida for 1 week for his
yearly training course on the simulator. It was supposed to happen
during
his next month working but the company changed it at the last minute
and
wouldn't budge despite our vehement protests. We are not best pleased
with
the situation, but I'll be ok hanging here by myself with Vino for a
week.
I've got satellite TV and the internet for the laptop. Although the
connection is really bad because it goes through the switchboard at the
front desk. I am just going to use it to download the NG to read
offline
and will go to the internet cafe around the corner for emailing!
Anyway, that's it for the latest news on our whereabouts.
Hugs and purrs for anyone that needs them.

Any chance you are going to be staying in Sydney for a day or two as you
head to Perth, or are you going directly to Perth? Because if you are
going
to be in Sydney for a few days, I can feel an RPCA/Catslaves meet coming
on.

Yowie


Sorry, but no, that would be extremely out of the way. It's actually
closer
from Perth to Singapore than from Perth to Sydney. And I'm pretty close
to
Singapore right now. With everything that's happening, I doubt I'll make
it
to Sydney until next year at the very earliest. But it will happen,
believe
me! And then we'll organize a meet well in advance. Can't wait :-)
--
Britta