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No room at the xinnx fridge.
Dec. 10th, 2020 07:02 pmJust got the Asda delivery with the last of my Christmas dinner stuff (plus normal stuff as well). The driver must have decided he'd be clever and pile up everything outside the front door before knocking, because I opened it to find myself facing a pile of stacked crates almost as tall as I am. My shoulder didn't appreciate lifting heavy stuff out of a crate that high - though at least I'd paid the extra to have it bagged, so it was mostly only a couple of bags per crate.
It's also just as well I ticked 'accept substitutions', because the one substitution I had was the chicken crown intended for Christmas Dinner! If that hadn't arrived it would have been a bit of a disaster, but I'm quite happy to accept a 680g "Salt and Pepper Chicken Crown" instead of the 505g "Chicken Crown with Sage and Onion gravy" I'd actually ordered (and for the lower price). Stuffing and gravy I'm quite able to handle on my own.
I'd planned for space in the freezer being tight, and cut a couple of things out of the order just in case. It's as well I did. Even dumping packaging, and in a couple of cases cutting out the cooking instructions to wedge into the inner foil tray, I ended up so tight for space that there's not even space for my two small ice-cube trays - not even balanced on top of stuff, and the frozen pizza I was planning for tonight's meal is now sitting in the fridge, not the freezer.
In other pre-Christmas misadventures, my brother-in-law sent me a text yesterday about my sister's present from him, only he sent it to my landline by mistake, and when the system called me and started reading it out in a synthesized voice I decided it was spam and deleted it before it got more than a couple of words in. I then realised what it had been, presumed it had been from my sister because I'd already had to trouble-shoot her Asda delivery order half an hour beforehand. So I rang back on their landline, but fortunately he answered, and hastily decamped out of her hearing to tell me he wanted to buy her a laptop for Christmas (they really need one, half the IT problems I get called in to troubleshoot, like the Asda order, are because she's trying to do everything on her phone), but wanted me to do the actual buying. She and I had already been looking for one on that basis, but we didn't find a deal I liked over Black Friday/Cyber Monday so had just planned to keep looking in a low-key way. I told himI'd do it, but it might take a day or two, and it's just as well I didn't get any further, because around about midnight I suddenly remembered that my mother had already said _she_ planned to pay for it. So that left me trying to figure out which one of the three of them I'd need to talk to to sort out which one of them was actually buying it without spoiling any surprise.
Fortunately he remembered about my mother overnight too, so by the time I was awake it had already been sorted out. Though muggins is probably still going to have to pick the deal.
I watched Matt Hancock's* performance at the latest Covid briefing earlier, and spent most of it yelling "and Medway!" at him every time he said "London, Kent and Essex" (which was a lot). I'm convinced half the government has forgotten, if they ever knew, that for local government purposes Medway isn't part of Kent and hasn't been for over 20 years**. Given we currently have the highest rates in the country, that isn't reassuring.
* Boris's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
** Whether we are for other purposes is confusing and I'm not sure anyone really understands.
