Day Ninety-Four - Wood Preserving and Deliveries

Pleasant enough for this morning’s walk.  Managing to maintain the extra distance without too much discomfort. Fewer and fewer people about in the morning now but I did see one of my absent wavers today. I think I’ve freed up enough space on my phone that I might be able to video the Covid snake which grows and grows. Sadly though I noticed some of the stones have washed clean in the rain. Obviously it would depend on whatever medium had been used. My green glitter rock remains!

I think I had the best of the morning too. I sat outside and ate my breakfast with the sun beaming down on me. Wednesdays is my delivery day. And my collection day I guess. It’s the day they collect the refuse. I struggle to remember the days when everything went into the one refuse sack and that was all we had to put out. Now all the sorting means one for the paper, one for the recycling, one for the general waste, one for the food waste, and the wheelie bin for the garden waste. I don’t always put all of them out every single week. When I do it’s quite a task to assemble all of the different rubbishes from all over the house into the right bags and get them out onto the street in time for the collections which do vary.

Also today was my organic vegetable delivery. And I’d ordered more than usual because I am preparing meals for my friend’s daughter when she arrives from Portugal next week. And at the moment of course I am busy sanitising everything that comes into the house. So that’s quite a chore as well. But they didn’t have everything that I needed so I also had an Amazon Prime Now delivery. I only discovered this the other week. I have a subscription to Amazon Prime because I do enjoy the next day delivery feature. I also like the music and  video streaming. But with Amazon Prime Now I can order food from Morrison’s the supermarket. I can’t get to Morrisons very easily unless I get on the bus which I’m not doing anyway at the moment and they do have some things that I can’t get anywhere else so I’m delighted to have found it. And what’s extraordinary is you can have it the same day. And they deliver in brown paper bags so it’s environmentally sound. I have all the ingredients I need.

And I was expecting two other deliveries. One should’ve arrived yesterday but the courier  delivered, or attempted, to deliver to the wrong address. It was quite a kerfuffle trying to sort it all out and I was made all kinds of false promises yesterday. It was a delivery from a company in London who imports French foods and delivers them in the UK. And it was an issue for them not delivering it yesterday because I had ordered some yoghurt’s. You can’t get them over here. They made by Nestlé and they’re in these cute little glass jars. They’re delicious. Don’t often treat myself but I had an email from the lady who owns the company so I decided to get some. They are very good at how they send them, it’s all packed in ice but it is dependent upon a next day delivery. Which is why I was so concerned. But of course nowadays no one wants to accept responsibility or be accountable. It’s not that a mistake was made. We all make mistakes. But it’s about how you solve that mistake and treat your customers that I think shows the true mettle of the company. Anyhow it arrived today and I think the yoghurt’s are okay. I won’t know until I’ve eaten them.

And the final delivery was some Amazon hair clippers. Obviously I can’t get my hair cut during lockdown. I don’t even think barbers and hair salons are open yet. I’ve been trimming my fringe rather poorly. So I bought these cheap clippers. It may have been silly I’m not sure if they’re going to be any good or not but it might just tidy up some of the funny ends that I’ve got everywhere. If they are any good it might mean I never have to go to the hairdressers again! That would save some money.

I’ve made a conscious effort to do some more reading and writing today and I’ve succeeded I’m pleased to say. The weather has dulled considerably so I didn’t mind staying indoors. And I believe there is rain forecast tomorrow. If that is so I think I might risk a trip to the health food shop.

I do try to balance out cerebral  activities with some physical or practical activities. So today I gave my garden seat and garden table a coat of wood preserver. My gardener chappy was going to do it this winter but he forgot, surprise surprise. He made a very good job of it a couple of years ago and he said he really enjoyed doing it so I thought he jump at the chance but I was wrong.

So that’s my day today. I haven’t looked at the news.  I don’t know what’s going on in the world. And I don’t even care. Maybe I should but that’s my mood today. My head is in lockdown as well as my body.