‘ The time has come, the dolphin said, to hunt for many things; for shoes (not ships or sealing-wax, nor cabbages or kings), and cables, multimeters, or stuff that fortune brings …’ (Adapted very loosely from Cabbages and Kings in Alice).
I was diving into boxes looking for shoes when I came across a sander I have been hunting for. That means I can do the headboard and side tables far more easily – Much Better Half won’t let me put them in un-repainted, so we are using grotty little tables at present. Anyway, the sander needs a cord. The cord that fits stopped working and is totally boggling my mind, because my tester, which enabled me to detect and fix a break in another extension cord recently, insists there is live current from one end to the other. So, the only thing I can think of is something wrong in the sealed plug at the end.
Now, I was vainly hunting for shoes and another cable, but instead I came across a multimeter, so that means I can do a continuity test on the faulty cable – when I remember how to drive the thing, and if I can find where I put the cable.
Further hunting for shoes finally unearthed a USB cable for my mobile phone. To date, hours of effort have failed to link wirelessly, so I have had no access to all the photos on it taken since our move. Suddenly I have hundreds of them – now all past history rather than being current affairs (though the break in that cable is a current affair in more ways than one, it occurs to me!) but I shall pop one in from time to time anyway. For starters, the above shot is from our evening at ‘Dolphins by Starlight’.
Now let me hunt for shoes again …
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I love your style of unpacking! LOL.
A very belated very happy New Year, everything that is Better, this year. Sorry that I’m so scarce. Hope your unpacking soon begins to ravel rather than unravel.
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I’ve never been as productive and efficient while looking for shoes, hahah! Yay for you! 😉
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I sympathise too, Col; even though we offloaded so much before we moved last year, we’re still locating stuff we don’t want but not what we do. Bon chance!
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Oh, can I ever sympathize! I have more boxes than I do possessions–and they seem to keep multiplying! Moving is stressful enough. Settling in is even more grueling!
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If you keep losing those shoes, you’ll end up finding a whole new house!
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Sounds like a treasure hunt!
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Happy hunting. By the time you find the shoes they will all look new to you again.
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Lovely image, Col. I thought it was we women who were always searching for shoes. 😄
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That’s the worst thing about unpacking. All the rabbit trails one goes down trying to find that thing…….Good luck, Col.
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Sounds like you’re going to be being with all those tools and gadgets!
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I do hope those dolphins are happy…..Fairly horrified by the Blackfish docky. On the upside I am sure that if they weren’t, they would not perform. Have witnessed dolphins blatantly disobeying their trainer – funny if it wasn’t so sad ….
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Heheh – ek identifiseer met daardie soektogte! Hoop die skoene duik op.
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problem solved…cut off the sealed plug and put on another….just remember you are doing good work
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Too late, too, to give hints on “how to pack sensibly”. Good luck, Col, and you can still show us some of those pics.
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I read the word “multimeter” as “mutilator” so you can just imagine… 😜 Good luck with the shoe hunting.
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It’s really awesome. 🙂
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It’s really awesome. 🙂
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Did it occur to you that it might be the socket that’s faulty? We have a similar situation here, 18 months in from the move! And today, just to make life delightful, two hulking men in boots are tracking mud in and out as they instal a woodburner in the living room. This is our backstop in case of power cuts, as everything here is electric.
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