Packing woes

So Pickford's, who came out months ago to assess our possessions and arrived yesterday to pack and remove them, have decided that we gave them the wrong information about what we were moving, or something. We told them exactly what was coming with us, and they gave us an estimate and a price ages ago, but they must have measured it up wrong or something. Either way they are here for the second day now, wrecking our plans for a relaxing afternoon with friends, and I bet we'll get a huge bill as well for the "extra" stuff that was here all along.

On the plus side, the guys that are doing the packing are very thorough and it's saving us a lot of hassle to have somebody else box everything up. It would have taken us ages to do it all ourselves, and I'm hoping it's worth it to just throw money at the problem and have it solved. It's just annoying to have to spend all this extra time in the house supervising work that was only meant to take one day and is now taking two. Skry bore the brunt of it today and let me stay in town for the afternoon, which was great, but it has been a real inconvenience for both of us.

As I write, the Pickford's team is clearing away the last of the things from downstairs, so I'll have to go down now and make sure they haven't packed away our suitcases by mistake! It wouldn't do to have our passports put into long-term storage two days before our flight. Fingers crossed...