back home again!
Aug. 7th, 2010 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zappoPhew, I finally seem to have settled in again. All that stuff to sort! And plants to prune, propagate and just plain pander to! None of them appears to have died during my absence, at least.
My father kindly drove me home, along with two large boxes of dolls. My grandmother (his mother) collected dolls for some 30-40yr and had quite a large and valuable collection when she died 8yr ago. My mother has most of them and I have those two large boxes. They have been stored at my parents' until now, because, well I live pretty much in a ship's cabin: it is very small!
But last year, in response to all that cement dust, I reorganised my cellar booth with large boxes and whatnot (while listening to Gareth David Lloyd reading a "Torchwood" novel brilliantly, I know I posted abou that at the time). Now there is space for my dolls! Or rather, there will be once I get rid of all the beer that is housed there...
... I do hope the cellar won't get burgled...
... but even so I can't store the dolls anywhere in my actual flat because of the smell. Yes, they are throughly mothballed. That's what I did earlier this week, re-mothballing all the doll-boxes, and boy did I get dizzy and slightly nauseous from it! Paradimal *) is unkind to _all_ living things. Yuck. Hopefully the smell deters burglars too.
*) looking for links on Paradimal (a quick web search implies it only contains "natural" products but I sincerely doubt that) I foundtherrureplying on a forum. Hi therru! Also, do you know a useful translation of "Blåkulla", something that an American would understand? I suggested "Witch Mountain".
My father kindly drove me home, along with two large boxes of dolls. My grandmother (his mother) collected dolls for some 30-40yr and had quite a large and valuable collection when she died 8yr ago. My mother has most of them and I have those two large boxes. They have been stored at my parents' until now, because, well I live pretty much in a ship's cabin: it is very small!
But last year, in response to all that cement dust, I reorganised my cellar booth with large boxes and whatnot (while listening to Gareth David Lloyd reading a "Torchwood" novel brilliantly, I know I posted abou that at the time). Now there is space for my dolls! Or rather, there will be once I get rid of all the beer that is housed there...
... I do hope the cellar won't get burgled...
... but even so I can't store the dolls anywhere in my actual flat because of the smell. Yes, they are throughly mothballed. That's what I did earlier this week, re-mothballing all the doll-boxes, and boy did I get dizzy and slightly nauseous from it! Paradimal *) is unkind to _all_ living things. Yuck. Hopefully the smell deters burglars too.
*) looking for links on Paradimal (a quick web search implies it only contains "natural" products but I sincerely doubt that) I found
therrureplying on a forum. Hi therru! Also, do you know a useful translation of "Blåkulla", something that an American would understand? I suggested "Witch Mountain".
