08:00 Excitement has been building here, because this is the first week of Cotteswold Dairies' new pared-down service. They're only going to be delivering two days a week from today on, instead of 3 days.
[What's exciting about that? - Ed]
Well, hold on a moment, the suspense element is this: will our roundsman, Mark the Milkman, be able to handle the changes without messing up? And there is some relief, to put it mildly, when we discover that he's come through with flying colours. Hurrah, good on you, Mark!
I venture outside and find that Mark the Milkman has confounded
the doubters - and he's successfully delivered our new-style
twice-a-week order, which is a relief, to put it mildly!
And here's the maths bit - we used to have 4 glass pint bottles of milk 3 times a week. but our little fridge isn't big enough to handle 6 pint bottles twice a week, so I've daringly broken with convention and asked Mark to deliver a mixed metric/imperial order: 3 pints plus 2 litres - you do the maths haha!
It's a bit bigger, as an order, than the old one was, because Lois and I always reckon that a litre is about one and three-quarter 20 oz Imperial pints, so the bottom line is that in future we'll be having around 13 Imperial pints a week instead of 12, so not really much difference really is it!!! But there'll be a little bit more, so I'll be able to have even more milky coffees than before, which is cheering.
And it's also a stroke of mathematical genius on my part - no doubt about that! What a good thing I've got a maths degree!
10:00 It's almost here, the dreaded day - tomorrow I have my much-feared follow-up dentist appointment in Cheltenham. It's an unknown quantity what my mouth and eating abilities will be like after the appointment, so Lois has kindly offered to organize some easy-eating options for me. How thoughtful she is - I wish I could be more like her!
But yikes, it's tomorrow !!!!!!
Kesh will be expecting me tomorrow - yikes! -
my dentist Kesh with the vaguely South African accent
So this morning, with teeth in mind, Lois and I drive over to the Warner's-Morrisons Supermarket in Upton-on-Severn. It's Monday, so it's nice'n'quiet, with mainly just a few old people shopping in the store here and there, which is handy. And we come back with a load of softish things to eat, together with some other things that we've just generally run out of.
we shop for "soft food" and general staples at Warner's Supermarket
this morning in advance of my dentist appointment - yikes !!!!!
It's obvious to me again how much Lois prefers to shop in person than to shop online. My clear preference is for online, because it saves a drive and saves the chore of getting the stuff home, but I can tell that shopping in person and being able to see the options, as well as to see things we may not have thought of, is a real pleasure to Lois, so why shouldn't she indulge it? That's what I say!
Nevertheless it all weighs a ton when we emerge from the check-out and load it all into the car-boot - my goodness! But you can see why it's so heavy when you look at the till receipt - my goodness (again) !!!!
the shopping weighs a ton when we take it out of the trolley
and load it into the car-boot: my goodness !!!!
15:00 On our minds all day, however, is the big event - our younger daughter Sarah, with husband Francis and their 9-year-old twin daughters, are taking off from Perth Airport around now (10 pm local time), and flying over the Indian Ocean to Dubai, ending their 7-year residence in Australia. After a few days in Dubai, they'll then be flying on to England, home to stay.
Lois and I have done that trip from Perth to Dubai twice, in 2016 and 2018, and in any case if you've done any sort of long-distance night flights, it's easy to imagine what they're going through. There's the constant background noise of the aircraft engines for a start. The lights are dimmed, people are trying to sleep, and other people are getting up and moving around, to the toilets or back from the toilets - you know the kind of thing!
We don't envy them, to put it mildly! And it'll be dark so they won't be able to see the sea below. They'll need a few days' relaxation in Dubai to get over it, I shouldn't wonder!
20:00 We settle down on the couch to watch another Ripping Yarn.
Have you ever wondered, when you offer a guest a cup of tea and they ask if you've got anything stronger, what exactly they mean? Well, that question is answered in tonight's episode, which is nice!
Bovril and whisky - it sounds a bit odd, but anyway, now at last we know! And
you know now too!!!
21:30 We wind down with the rest of the programme "Piano Greats at the BBC", which we only saw part of yesterday, because bed was calling us.
Appropriately perhaps, the programme ends with Billy Joel playing his composition "Piano Man" on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. It's interesting that in contrast to the other performers in this programme, many of whom were child prodigies at the keyboard, Billy Joel took up having piano lessons reluctantly, to satisfy his mother. Who would have thought it?
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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