Good morning. 6.1 on this cold and foggy morning. Totally opposite to yesterday.
Yesterday turned out to be a comedy of errors, or a farce, I can’t decide. Had an email from Symths Toys, the children’s slide I only ordered on Friday was getting delivered between 10.45-11.45. That bit was fine except I had to dash to get showered and dressed as I only saw the email half an hour pre first time slot. Courier arrived 11.20, opened the door to the announcement he’d knocked our outside light off the wall above the door. It is a big box TBF. He was mortified, we both just laughed. It was old and never threw out much light anyways. Dragged the huge, heavy box into the hall. It was a bit bashed, took some photos of it just incase, we still haven’t opened it. As we now had bare wires hanging out of the house, Mr Eggy flew down to B&Q to get a new light, a motion sensor one as we struggle seeing the keyhole when we arrive home in the dark. When he arrived home he notice a part from the slide in the front garden, it must have fallen out of the box, fingers crossed there’s not anymore parts in the DPD van. In the meantime, he’d started an online chat/heated discussion with British Gas, who we’d also had an email from putting up our monthly DD by £50. When he returned from B&Q he got back onto BG, who did everything but answer the question he’d posed. Why are you putting up our DD when YOUR annual estimate of our fuel bill divided by 12 is what we’re paying now? Some how we’re now on the priority list incase of power cuts! Eventually, they said our DD can remain as it is but they’ll review it in three months. This took for ever. Had a quick lunch, got stepladders out and he proceeded to fit the new light. This took much longer than expected as he had to drill more holes and our sandstone walls are very, very thick. We were suppose to walk to daughters to get there for 2pm, she was getting other visitors at 3pm and didn’t want to overcrowd them. It was now 2pm and Mr Eggy was still up the ladders. We went in the car and got there 2.30. Got home and noticed the outdoor light was on permanently, a bit fiddling about and it was sorted, we thought. At dusk we noticed that every time a car drove by, bearing in mind we live on the A6 which is one of the main roads going into the city, the light went on! More fiddling, fingers crossed it’s now fine. Ate tea, binged watched last three episodes of Reacher on our free trial of Prime Video. 10.20pm, phone rang, one of his brothers, their almost 87 year old mother had fallen. And he couldn’t get her back up! Changed out of PJs and flew round, five minutes drive. She was fine, she hadn’t fallen badly but was sitting on the floor in front of her chair, so was able to reach the phone. She doesn’t know how she slipped off her chair, if that’s what happened, but didn’t have the strength to get herself back up. All sorted he was back before 11pm. We went to bed! Fingers crossed when we open the battered box all the parts are there! Hoping for a bit of a quieter and non-eventual day today.
Have a good day folks.
