Settling in

Here we are at last! The past few days have been quite hectic to say the least. The journey was great, no hitches or holdups and champagne all the way. We arrived at the house in a big chauffeur driven limo and as arranged the relocation agent was waiting for us. She was quickly joined by the letting agent, neither of whom had keys!Les phoned the office because we knew a set had been delivered there and the letting agent phoned the owner. Within 10 minutes they all arrived and the place was like Paddy's Market!Four very assertive career women all tryng to get their point across to us two weary travellers. It was no contest! Eventually, having received four sets of instructions for everything, they went away and left us to it.Then the internet guy arrived and started in with more instructions! Most things were quite simple, but we don't have an electronic garage door or an integrated garden sprinkle system at home, so they were a challenge.The sprinklers were on and off,my trousers got a sprinkling too. Next up, Les tried out the satellite TV system and pressed so many buttons all we had was " A snowy scene".On 300 channels. We went a quick grocery shopping and got home to make a simple chicken salad as the instructions for the cooker were too difficult to interpret after 36 hours awake! We'd just sat down to eat it when the power went off! The whole estate was in total darkness. Fortunately one of the women had brought us candles so we just had a candlelit dinner then went to bed exhausted.Sometime in the night the power came back on so when Les woke up wide awake at 4.30a.m. the house was lit up like Blackpool! I slept like a log until 7.30 a.m.