As predicted, this turns out to be a fairly awful day, but at least it has one nice bit in the middle.
06:30 We roll out of bed in our new-build home in Malvern, in order to get to our dental check-up appointments in Cheltenham at 9:15 am.
YIKES! And on the way we have to fight not just the rush-hour traffic, but also a dazzling winter sun shining directly into my eyes from about 6 inches above the horizon. What madness !!!!
I always knew that our encounter with our dentist today was going to be bad news, especially for me, because I've developed (not intentionally) two wiggly-jiggly-joggly teeth, right in the front of my mouth, on the bottom row. It turns out I'm going to have all 4 of these teeth out, to be replaced by a partial denture. Yikes (again) !!!!! I'm never going to be able to cope with the practicalities of that, that's for sure. I'm hopeless with anything like that.
And I'm even more nervous now about those teeth falling out by themselves. However, Kesh, our dentist, says it will reduce the bill if any of those teeth decide to come out anyway, of their own accord. Plus, who knows? I might get something from the tooth fairy, do you think?
Sadly the South West is the area where the tooth fairy pays the least, which is annoying - just my luck!!!!
12:00 We come home, have lunch and then go upstairs and squeeze a nap into our hectic schedule - this is the nice bit of the day.
15:30 However, when we get up, Lois happens to go from the living-room into the kitchen (or vice versa), and guess what happens? Well, you won't guess this one - the glass-paneled door that leads from our living-room into the little lobby, comes off its hinges - just jumps off them, just like that, if you please. Luckily this big heavy door manages to wedge itself into the door-frame, so that it doesn't fall on Lois.
My goodness! You don't expect that with a new-build house do you! Or do you? Perhaps you do!
I judge this to be a potential safety risk, so I try to get Neil on the phone. Neil is the local customer service guy, but he's not answering his phone, and nor is Graham, the building site manager. This is slightly concerning, to put it mildly, because I know that most of these guys start going home about 4 o'clock.
In the end I have to phone Bradley at the builders' regional office in Redditch, who somehow manages to get Neil onto the case, probably through Neil's "bleeper", and a carpenter arrives at about 5 pm to fix the door firmly to its hinges. It seems that they didn't finish the job off properly in their haste to "sign off" our house.
But what a madness it all is !!!!
In the background of the above picture you'll see Lois in the kitchen - just before the on-site carpenter arrived to fix the door back on its hinges, we got a big Morrisons supermarket delivery. Lois has realised that we've been running a big freezer with not much in it. In our old house we had a huge garden which produced a lot of fruit and veg through the year, but now we've just got a small lawn behind the house, so it's not producing fruit and veg at all, not surprisingly.
So we have decided we might as well stockpile bread, meat, fish, and frozen veg in the freezer and make it earn its keep, and at the same time save us petrol because we'll be making fewer shopping trips. Makes sense to us haha!!!
As always there are a few "snafus" in our ordering process. We tend not always to notice the quantities of what we order, and when we came to order a bottle of Comfort conditioner this week, we didn't notice we were asking for the 3 litre size bottle, which Lois can barely pick up. Out of curiosity I put it on our kitchen scales, and I found that it weighs about 7 lbs.
It's just more and more madness all the time, isn't it !!!!!
Oh dear - we're going to have to find the old little empty bottle of Comfort in the recycling waste and decant a bit of Big Comfort into it every time we want it. And who doesn't need a bit of "Comfort" from time to time, as I told the Morrisons delivery guy. And especially so in these difficult times haha!
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