I whined at UPS on Twitter and they actually responded, requesting the details via DM
As a result, I just had a phone call from them. They checked the driver's GPS and reckon he was within a minute's drive of here but not actually here, so he's in for a bollocking for fabricating a failed delivery
However, he's now finished for the day so all they can do is make sure it gets delivered on Monday; in other words, the same outcome for me as if I'd never bothered moaning at them
Oh, and I assume this means that on Monday, I'm expected to answer the door to a bloke who's just been given grief by his boss specifically because of me
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When I got back from shopping, one of the crows was wandering around the lawn a few feet away from where I parked. It completely ignored the car, but I wondered if it might fly off, or at least move away across the lawn, when I got out. No, it turned out: it carried on strutting about the place, completely ignoring me. At least it didn't chase me away like a squirrel
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Shopping done!
I also made a minor detour on the way back to pop into M&S and then over to W. H. Smith's, where I bought a copy of Commando #5800 Cannonball Casey
They only had two copies left so I just bought one, as I have some on their way in the post. My brother bought every copy at Meadowhall, but there's bound to be a kid out there who tries to get every issue but has to wait until their parents take them to the retail park at the weekend, so I thought I'd give them a fair chance
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Oh great, now they've pulled the "Delivery attempted" stunt
I suppose I can go shopping now
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FFS. "We have updated your delivery time" - yes, it now says "By the end of the day" so don't go pinning your hopes on winning that "most informative delivery service" award any time soon
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Lunch: fish finger bap (wholemeal) with ketchup
Still no delivery though to be fair, it's expected to arrive some time up to 13:30
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAh, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then
I was about to go shopping, but I'll have to put that off to this afternoon now
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Morning all
Bright, glorious sunshine! Had you going, no it's just cloudy and dull again. Currently 9 degrees and that's it for the day. The weather app claims the sun will appear this afternoon but I don't believe it. No rain forecast. Barometer at 1024 mbar.
Scratchy eyes this morning, sniffles still sniffling. First coffee inhaled, I suspect I'll need a couple more before I feel like doing any work.
Forgot to mention yesterday that smalls and such were laundered. They will be replaced on the clothes airer by work dresses and other larger items of clothes later.
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Morning denizens
Yet another grey start. A touch sillier today though, being 7°C now and not getting any higher than 10°. The barometers are down a bit at 1015/1023mB
Last night's sleep wasn't too bad. The Covid jab is making its presence felt, but the arm isn't too sore and the lurgyish symptoms are relatively mild. I did think on to take a couple of paracetamol immediately before going to sleep, which has maybe helped. Anyway, I feel a bit tired and run down, but not as bad as it's been some years
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Morning.
Friday.
Today's dream before waking was SF rather than working somewhere nightmare: parallel world or somesuch with shapeshifters and a dog thing that turned out to be a big shapeshifter. Then I woke to find the Orange Nightmare was real.
Curious difficulty finding the bedroom door at 02:00 on the way to the bog. Had to turn the light on. Very odd.
In other other news, my injection site is aching a bit. Probly in sympathy with NF. .
Grey.
Gloomy.
Sunless.
Dry.
Chilly in here at 16.3 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 13 in the saltinghouse.
1020.5 mBar, 30.135 in Hg, 765.44 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1022 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 29th of November 2019 it was cold, frosty & sunny for NF, WTFH, and others, whereas I was doing the washing. Bit like today really.
Shirts in the WM.
Shirts out of the WM and pegged out on the line.
Smalls in the WM.
Smalls out of the WM & pegged out on the line.
Cottons in the WM.
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Tonight's reading has been the first few chapters of The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, published last month. It has a particular emphasis on the way the case was covered by the tabloid journalists of the day, particularly Harry Procter of the Sunday Pictorial, sister paper to the Mirror, which paid for Christie's defence in return for access to his side of the story
The Covid jab is starting to kick in: arm's beginning to get sore, and I'm feeling rather meh. Best to get an early night, I think, in the hope of still being able to do something useful with Friday
On the bright side, I came across a study which found that adverse reactions to the jab were directly correlated with higher levels of antibodies three months later - as much as 30%
Goodnight all
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Ah, UPS don't fly from Cologne to the UK - apparently it's brought here by road or rail via some place called Stanford-le-Hope on the banks of the Thames near Canvey Island. No chance of it getting here tomorrow, then
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