英国からの船便での引越し荷物が10ヵ月かかってようやく到着。
身軽な私達の全所持品はたった19箱。海賊の盗難にでもあったのかと思っていたが、荷物はまだ英国の倉庫にあると判明したのが今年5月。引越し業者に連絡しても梨のつぶてだったが、ある時「見積もり額と実費が変わったので承認をもらうまでは発送できなかったが連絡が取れなかった、半年分の倉庫代1000ポンド（20万）送れ」と言うとんでもない連絡が来た。
もちろん、荷物が遅れた事に対する補償をしてもらいたいぐらいだ、裁判で戦うぞぐらいの勢いでめずらしくJasonが掛け合って一件落着。
それにしても、今までこれらの所持品無しで生活できていたから、かなり荷物を減らしたつもりだったが、まだまだいらないものばかりだったと言う事。アラタカラの写真だけは無くならなくてよかった。
うえださんにもらった金太郎の腹巻が入っていたのでアラタカラに着せてみた。どっちが似合うかな。
Our boxes from the U.K. have finally arrived after 10 months.
We sent 19 boxes. That's all we have. But I still thought they may have been taken by Somali pirates because we were never able to find out where they were. In May the truth emerged. They were still in a storage in the U.K.!
The moving company contacted us at last saying, "We can not despatch the boxes without your acceptance of the difference between the quotation and actual costs. We have tried to contact you but no success. Please send us GBP 1000 for the half a year storage charge."
It's so untrue. They were the ones we couldn't get hold of. Of course, we managed to avoid falling prey to them.
Anyway, we thought we threw lots of things away before moving. However as we could manage to live in Penang without these stuff in the past 10 months, I have to admit that most of the boxes are not that important, except for the photos of Aratakara.
In one of the boxes, I found the baby tummy warmer my friend Ueda gave Takara. Aratakara tried it on. Who suits this better?
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