Last month Bad Jelly and I headed to a Fiji resort Island for the wedding of the son of some great friends. I admit to having been a curmudgeonly old grump about having another trip away, to a place I didn’t really want to go.
How wrong I was! We had a fantastic time and, being surrounded by all their family and friends for three days as they celebrated their love for each other was a lovely experience. (Yes, Darling I admit I WAS WRONG!! But that is only twice now that this has happened in my lifetime, so it’s hardly a pattern.)
Once the wedding was over Bad Jelly and I headed for Dennerau and a few days of R and R. I am not really a resort sort of person, far preferring some random B&B or a private dwelling.There are just too many people for me in resorts and they are too structured. I especially dislike the push and shove of the smorgasbord breakfast, as an Australian reaches in front of you to grab the best looking hash brown, and people overload their plates with quantities of food they would never eat at home. Not my sort of start to the day. So, just as we do wherever we travel, we usually head out for a walk and an early morning coffee, and sit and watch the locals heading off to work, before returning caffeined up and ready for the breakfast battle.
To ease my first world resort stress over this, we spent quite a lot of time looking for off-site alternatives: shopping in Nadi, a visit to the orchid gardens and even a mud bath and massage. I have to say that the mud bath was an interesting experience. More of a mud bucket really. A $2 shop yellow plastic bucket of mud that you rub all over yourself, letting it dry before soaking it off in a pool, to reveal a new softer you that is at the same time miraculously “cured” of all sorts of strange diseases.
What the resort did have though, were luscious hotel quality sheets, for those hot sticky tropical nights, which were very similar to the sheets we sold in our Takapuna store for many years. In fact, when we closed the store, I made sure I kept a box of them in our storage loft at home, to have plenty for our personal needs in the future. In recent months we have had so many phone calls from clients who wanted to still buy them that, even though we no longer sell bed linen, we have brought in a special shipment of only 100 pairs to satisfy the demand.
These are exactly the same sheets as used by some of the world’s largest luxury hotel chains. The type of sheet that breathes and lasts years and years. To tell you about them I am probably better to tell you what they are not. These are not those poor quality, ridiculously high thread count sheets sold by bulk barns and departments stores. These sheets have a heavy yarn that will last a long time. They have a thread count designed to make them breathe! A recent test I saw on high thread count cotton sheets showed that they were no cooler than a polycotton sheet, because they could not breathe. Often high thread count sheets are finer than parachute cloth and no air is supposed to go through that! So these are NOT: those stupid high thread count, easy tear, short life, hot and sticky cotton sheets that have become popular in recent years. These are: long life, heavy yarn, breathable cotton sheets, ideal for the summer ahead. The perfect weight for those nights when a sheet is all you need. And yes, just like when you get out of the mud bath, you do have to wash them several times before they are soft enough to feel really good, but well worth the effort.
If you would like some of these sheets, that have just arrived, give us a call on 4861103 or call into the showroom at 35c Constellation Drive, Mairangi Bay. They are available in sets only, in sizes Queen, King and Super King. All one price and great buying at $239.95 per set delivered.
Don’t miss out there are only a 100 sets available and quite a few are already destined for customer orders
