I know how Charlie Bucket felt when he
found that golden ticket, because that's how we feel when we discover a
ticket in our post box - the prized 'you have a parcel to collect' ticket. Just one of the many things we have come to appreciate whilst living on this incredibly isolated island. Imagine a world without postal services!
The ship came on Monday. It took the local men two days to unload it (I must blog about that sometime - it's a very unique spectacle). The post office has been inundated. There are pallets and pallets and pallets of boxes to be processed. Customs workers and post office staff are runoff their feet. One of the customs workers even chased me across the school playground to inform me that there were boxes at the post office ready for us to pick up (how's that for service hey). They are overwhelmed with parcels, the workers simply can't continue unloading pallets until the current stash is taken away - it's a matter of space.
Look how many we have collected so far....
What on earth is in them you ask? Well, the biggest one contained Christmas presents (what an efficient family we have), and the others contained grocery items which we can't buy locally: rapadura sugar, fruit bars, cheap cereal (it's a FORTUNE here), organic pasta, organic muesli, organic popcorn, organic porridge, organic this, organic that (you get the idea - I prefer organic) and other bits and pieces. Needless to say, daily visits to the post office have been very exciting this week. Most of what we order online takes around 6 weeks to reach us, but stuff has been known to take 3 months! By the time it arrives, we have usually forgotten all about it.
And look what fun can be had with a bulk shipment of toilet paper (who'd have thought)...
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| 96 rolls - hours of entertainment |
1 comment:
Pumkin says What about cutting up old newspaper for toilet paper? That would be the ultimate in recycling
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