Present that finally budged
When Mrs Sandy Moai started planning her daughter’s dolls house in August for Christmas, she did not realise she would need to call in the Ministry of Transport to move it. At 1.30 a.m. on Christmas Day Mrs Moar had just put the final coat of paint on to the house and was ready to move it inside under the tree. This presented a special kind of transport problem. The dolls house measured a metre high, two metres
wide and a metre deep. “There was just no way I could get it from the garage to the house,” said Mrs Moar. “It wouldn’t budge.” Not easily defeated, Mrs Moar then started ringing round various public services for help. The cavalry arrived in the form of two Ministry officers and when Diana Moar (aged five) woke up on Christmas morning she found her dolls house parked neatly in the lounge.
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Press, 26 December 1987, Page 4
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