On Saturday night we get the call that one of our upcoming apartment guests has arrived in the UK 2 weeks before her booking date. Do we have somewhere for her to stay? She is a student from Hong Kong who is over here to take exams in a local college. We had had a lengthy e-mail conversation with her about where she would stay and we had told her that she could "homestay" with us if the worst came to the worst.
Well it did. We had heard no more from her and she had booked to stay in student digs (of which there are many around here) sharing a house with some Canterbury University students. However, when she saw how bad they were she was unable to stay there and called us up.
We had originally offered the accommodation with us on the basis that if we knew she was coming we would have at least 2 weeks to prepare a room in the house for her. As it turned out we had 10 hours. This is what it looked like at 6:30 am on Sunday morning:
And this is what it looked like at 4:00pm. Bonkers or what?
On top of that the rest of the house had to be made into a respectable place, which since we have just moved in, was something of an ordeal.
It's all business.
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You guys are amazing! You should be on telly as the highest achieving family of the year/s! (JND)x
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