Back home - stuff getting unpacked, bought, delivered and moved here and there

Maia and I arrived back in India on June 26 - just after Midsummer celebrations in Sweden!
Life since then has been about getting reinstalled at school, unpacking,

unpacking,

and unpacking ... and this was the result! Loads of empty boxes everywhere. The Indian removal company came and collected them all thankfully!

Interesting cluster of cords ...

This move is our worst so far in terms of items broken. For example, Ian's beloved beautiful glass plate from Kingdom of Glass in Sweden was in pieces - still with fruit in it!!!? And one of the pieces was found in ANOTHER BOX!

If you want to know what removal company to avoid, let me know. Anyway ... we count our losses and move on.

We are still looking for curtains to help keep some of the heat out and getting new furniture for the 390 m2 apartment!

This beautiful sofa suite caught our eye - we could not resist ...

 ... it was delivered by 2 very skinny looking and VERY strong Indian guys.

 

 In India you can get pretty much anything delivered to your door then later the same day or the next day (you can never be quite sure) the omnipotent carpenter comes to assemble whatever was delivered. In this case it was only a matter of screwing the legs onto the bottom of the seats. We could not wait, and in any case, it was no match for Maia! By the time the carpenter arrived, he only had to tighten the odd screw. He had a huge smile on his face, he was probably not used to people doing things by themselves.
So, this is what our lounge looks like at the moment:

The echo in here is still quite loud ... We are certainly getting there though. It is exciting to see the apartment slowly but surely coming together and with a little help of friends this place will look absolutely fabulous eventually.

Now for the important things in life - games and fun :-)

Look what I built!

 The name of the game is to use as many building blocks as possible and/or build as high as possible.

ooooooohhhhhh ...

well, it lasted longer than anyone would have though!

It is still very hot but in the evenings we try to get out as much as possible. Favourite activities at the moment is badminton ...

... and tennis. Maia has talked about wanting to learn how to play tennis for probably 2 years now. Here at The World Spa there are a few tennis teachers who come in every week. We talked to one of them, Nagaraja, who had an opening for a new student.

Maia loves it and seems to have a good feel for it.

There is a club house with a gym here. Moving stuff seems contagious - they decided to move all the treadmills, cross trainers, other machines and weights upstairs. How do you do that in India? With a little help from a lot a people.

Stage one: discussion

Stage two: trying it out and shouting a lot

Stage three: it seems to work! We are almost there.

It looked like the cross trainer was sort of floating on all the people.

Well, you might have thought that I had forgotten all about you, but ... oh no! I am back.

Have a lovely rest of the week!

Hope to see you again soon ;-)