Transportation to the US! March 6, 2009
Posted by mandymullet in at home.Tags: freight, freight forwarders, furniture, move, sideboard, transport, transport company
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Well I’m back again with something to write about in my blog and its been less than a month since my last addition! Whey hey, that must call for a celebration!
Ok, no big deal. I thought it might be of interest to someone that I had to send a rather large and not inexpensive piece of furniture to my cousin who lives in the United States and what a palaver that was! Anyone would think that in this day and age, when just about everything that moves is computerised, filed and locked down so that mistakes cannot be made. Well, I was wrong to think that in this particular case, at least.
The item of furniture is a very old sideboard that belonged to my great grandparents (yes, it is very old) and was valued at around twelve thousand pounds, so it needed special insurance and all sorts of paperwork to get it from A to B.
All credit to the transport company that handled the move, as they knew their stuff and got it there eventually, but even though they had plenty of experience with this sort of thing, they still ran up against an absolute minefield of problems that needed to be overcome in order to transport the piece of furniture to where it had to be.
The details are a little beyond my comprehension, as I often feel exasperated at the red tape and petty bureaucracy that goes along with anything that ought really to be simple and straight forward.
But after dealing with freight forwarders insurance, documentation like a bill of lading, certificate of origin, export license and a ream of other incomprehensible forms, all was finally completed and the transport company were able to pick up the sideboard from my parents’ house and send it on its merry way.
We heard that it arrived safely and is now proudly displayed in my cousin’s living room to the envy of their neighbours! Nothing like a little ray of sunshine poking through the clouds to brighten up anyone’s day!
See you again soon
Mandy Mullet at Home July 19, 2008
Posted by mandymullet in at home.Tags: at home, mandy mullet, mandy mullet at home, opinion, views, who is mandy mullet
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Welcome to Mandy Mullet, my brand new blog that’s all about… ME lol! I haven’t actually planned anything for this but I wanted to have something to jot down my thoughts, give a little bit away about myself (but not too much!) and generally vent my opinions and views on what I see going on around me.
So let’s get started with a who is Mandy Mullet?
My name is of course Mandy Mullet and I was born on 27th January 1978, which makes me an Aquarius and the ripe old age of 30! I live in London, England in a small flat (apartment) to the north of the city in a place called Enfield. That’s as close as you’re getting to where I live! Enfield is a big place, so the likelihood of you bumping into me on the street is pretty low.
I’m not giving anything too personal away, so I’ll leave you guessing as to whether I’m single or not. Well, a girl has to have secrets!
I work as a personal assistant to an accountancy firm but I won’t say where or who as they probably wouldn’t want me to divulge that information. In the evenings and at weekends, I like to spend some time on my laptop, but not too much time as there are other things that take up my spare hours too.
I’m very much into keeping fit and I eat healthily and don’t smoke.
I’m very aware of what goes on around me and don’t like to see things like unfairness, injustice or abuse of power an any form. Here in England, we seem to have given up our total freedom of speech and bend over backwards to help everyone else but ourselves. That is an injustice, so it rankles me.
I hate to see racial abuse happening anywhere, but I understand that there are differences between people and sometimes things get said that aren’t really meant in a nasty way, but other zealots get involved and blow things up way out of proportion. That’s unfairness, so it rankles me too.
I believe that we can all live together in peace if we really want to, but the reality is that there are certain factions around the world as well as here in England that don’t want peace and probably never will. I feel pity for these people because they seem to have had their choices made for them by others that have power over them. That is abuse of power and it also rankles me.
So there you are. A bit about me a coconut shell (its bigger than a normal nutshell!)
I want to write about things that make me happy, not things that rankle me, so I’ll try, but I can’t make any promises!
