"Living My Dream"
On the 1st April 2011 Country Flowers moved to 150 Queen Street Kensington. We purchased the house in 2002 and it can be best described lacking a little TLC. It was in such an unsavoury state I couldn’t bear to have a full inspection when I first saw it, all I remember is lots of small dogs and the brown gloss ceiling in the kitchen. The deal was done the loan approved and we took occupation on the 2 January 2003, unfortunately the estate agent who had the keys was away on her annual vacation and our poor house stayed locked up for a month in a glorious hot Johannesburg January. The day we received the keys will remain in my mind for as long as I live and every time I dare to go there the memory never fails to make me roar with laughter. Annie, my dearest mother and best friend joined me as I bravely opened the front door. We were apprehensive to take a good look around the house we had staked our future on. We made it in the front door, through the entrance hall and into the back room, a strange sensation had come over me I felt as if my skin was crawling and one look at Annie told me she was feeling the same way. Together we looked down and to our horror we were being eaten alive by fleas. Pandemonium followed, about turn, hand bags on heads, run for the door, find the right key to lock the house, jump in the car, drive the 8kms to Annie’s home, scratching all the time. Every time we looked at each other we squealed in horror and laughed to beat the band. Arriving at Annie’s the idea was to get out of our flee infested clothing but as we got out of the car the pool came into sight and we both made a mad dash. Clothes and all we were in! It sounds like a slap stick movie but no we lived it, we laughed, we panicked and nearly drowned together. I couldn’t have asked for a more memorable start to the next chapter in living my dream.
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