Thirty hour power cut

We arrived safely in Kosova, on Wednesday 3rd, being met at the airport by a friend despite his own very busy programme. Since then we have been slightly hampered by the power being off for 30 hours - unusual even by Kosova standards. We seem to have spent a lot of our time sleeping.
We finished counting our possessions in time for the removal men to collect them, and they took just four hours to parcel everything up and take it away. It is due to arrive on the 10th. We also managed to complete the decorating, in the nick of time (some paint went on the day before we left) and to get the garden in reasonable order. This was largely thanks to Gabriel, one of our gap year students, who spent six hours working on the front garden assisted for a while by Haydn, another friend. There is now room to park two cars and the flower bed is tidier than for years.
Finally, the day before we left Andy and Rachel came round and helped us clean and clear up - as well as helping us to keep sane. And we were offered a bed for the night by friends so that we could put our mattress in our second skip the day before, rather than at 6 am the day we left!
In the meantime we had taken time out for the weekend to visit our son, Tim, and his wife, in Chesterfield. It was Tim's 32nd birthday on the Sunday. Saturday was enjoyable. After a long debate we decided to spend the day at the Yorkshire Mining Museum - and then went instead to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Exhausting but very interesting, especially the Anthony Gormley exhibits. But on Sunday evening things went a bit awry when Tim and his wife went down with food poisoning. Fortunately we missed it, just as well as we had to return to Harpenden on the Monday morning for our final injections.
Back in Kosov a, we now have broadband access, thanks to the very efficient internet company - despite our twice having to put them off because we had no electricity. The woman in the office apologised that they would not be able to do the installation until the next day "this is Kosova". British companies please note.