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Well, it certainly was a lovely day all day yesterday for my Mum on her Birthday - and I've passed on everyone's kind wishes to my Mum as well and she was quite overwhelmed and really touched by them all ;o>The Flowers that I ordered from our favourite Florists are as stunning as they always are - and the Chocolate Overload Drip Cake turned out to a truly spectacular masterpiece - and the very best Celebration Cake that I've ever ordered from anyone - anywhere - ever! ;o>
So amazing and so perfect, in fact, that I will only be ordering all of our special Celebration Cakes from Ellie in future ;o>
I've bought Cakes from quite a few places over the years but I've yet to come across anyone who can bake anywhere close to as deliciously and as perfectly as Ellie can - or anyone either who can ice and decorate a Cake anywhere near as beautifully and as absolutely flawlessly as she can do it too.
And whereas most folk in Business have been baking for several decades - Ellie has only been doing it since the Summer of last year and is barely just into her 20's!
Mum and me are now all completely blissed out on Cake! And I even actually caught Dad in the act of sneaking a small slice for his Breakfast first thing this morning! - and I've never known my Dad to ever be a huge fan of any kind of Cake until now! ;o>
hi Suzy ,I'm so pleased that your mum's birthday went off ok and that the cake was a success,although after seeing the photo I was sure it would be.sorry to be late with my birthday wishes I had a family thing to do.i have also changed hairdresser's and in fact due to lock down bit the bullet and resorted to getting rid of the badger look myself,it's remarkably easy and saving me a fortune,in fact my boss has been cutting Thomas'hair as well ,It's usually £15 for him to have his hair cut in Sevenoaks,a lot for a 3 year old , and it looks just as good when she's done it
i'd love to get myself a new barber - mine's is erratic, unpredictable, and quite often, a huffy bastid! he's too expensive and his patter's like watter, but he does a reasonable job............i guess i'm just used to him and his carry on!
I never did follow up on what happened next with the Ercol Corner Cabinet that I took a gamble on ordering off the Vinterior Website, did I? ;o>Well, it came, but it was SO incredibly frustrating and annoying having my M&D insisting on being at the Door and then all over the Guy delivering it like they usually do when I try to arrange things. Sometimes I don't think that they will ever come to fully grasp that I am actually an adult now and in my 50's as well?! - or come to understand that if I source and buy something, and especially when it is something that is very expensive too, then I'd really much prefer it if they would just stand back and let me take charge and accept Delivery of it all by myself.
First off there was all of the usual last minute shouting and swearing at each other and mad panic over them frantically dusting and hoovering throughout the entire House, even though I had already told them that the Guy wasn't going to be coming inside! Then I went into the Dining Room to discover that, since I had last been in it only just an hour before, all of the Furniture had now inexplicably been moved all the way over to one side of the Room ready for the Cabinet to be brought from the Patio via the French Windows - but there were several Chairs stacked up and blocking the Dining Room Door that the Cabinet was going to have to come through once the Seller had dropped it off - and all of the Furniture had been moved over to the wrong side of the Room including into the corner that I was intending to put the Cabinet in! ;oO
Cue much silent swearing from me while I was left trying to work out how on Earth to best to sort this out with only just minutes to spare before the Guy turned up, and M&D just completely left me to it and eagerly raced off outside to the Van as it arrived and parked up outside, just like they were a pair of over-excited Kids who had just spotted an Ice Cream Van!!!
And then my Mum kept talking non-stop all of the time that the poor Guy was trying to get out of the Van ... while I was trying to hurry out as best as I could after them with Face Masks because M&D had (as usual) both completely forgotten all about needing to wear them!
It took the Guy ages to get the Cabinet out the Van because he was being kept so busy with trying to answer both of them chattering away at him at the same time - and unfortunately it meant that I could barely even get so much as a single word in edgeways. This was extremely frustrating to say the least because the biggest priority was that I needed to check over the Cabinet with him and I had already noticed that it was surprisingly very dusty and also had more than a couple of rather odd white smeary but dried splash marks on it?! I had a feeling though that they might come off easily enough (and they did thankfully!) but they really shouldn't have been there at all if he had given it the professional clean that he said that he had done before it had left the Shop?! ;oO
There were also quite a few extremely tiny little fleck marks of white paint on the surface of the bottom Shelf that also, and thankfully, came off easily enough when I very carefully eased them off with the edge of a Finger Nail. I really wanted to be able to talk to him about why it was that it hadn't been cleaned - as the inside of the Cupboard had a layer of thick dust that meant it couldn't possibly have been wiped out for many months - but then my Dad was suddenly asking him if he had also got any Ercol Chairs for sale(?!!) and I was trying my very best to whisper at him to please stop asking because, having paid a little more than I was previously wanting to for the Cabinet, the very last thing that we also wanted or needed to be ordering and buying from this more rather upmarket and expensive Seller was a couple of Chairs as well ... and Mum and me were both utterly bewildered by him asking because we don't even want or need a couple more Chairs anyway?!!
The next thing I knew the Seller was saying goodbye and leaving, so I let M&D walk and talk him back up the Driveway and it was only then that I could finally get to have a really good look at the Cabinet all by myself ... and that was when my Stomach flipped over and my Heart sank because I noticed that there was a quite large < shaped gouge on the upper part of one of the sides that faces forward ... and it was SO upsetting to get see that after the Seller had already left as, if it had just been him and me during the Delivery, we could have been able to discuss this further between us as there was absolutely no sign at all of this damage on the Pictures and so it had obviously been caused after they were taken - while it was in Storage or in Transit.
It was hard for the perfectionist in me to get to see past this damage at first because I was left wondering if the Seller had seen the gouge? - knew full well that it was there but had been hoping to try to get it past me somehow? - and then my Parents had inadvertently helped to make it possible for him to do so?
However, it was nevertheless obvious that, once given a damn good clean (thanks to the unexpected further expense of having to buy a specialist Polish for it off Amazon), it was/is still a very beautiful Cabinet and, although I know that it's there, the large gouge doesn't actually show up all that noticeably now that the Cabinet has been placed in position. I decided to think on it for a day or two as to whether to contact the Seller and at least try to renegotiate for a bit of a discount on it arriving as it did with damage to it as I'd paid more for it because it was supposed to be in almost immaculate condition.
And after a day or two I decided I could refocus back onto all of the things that I was initially attracted to and still really love about it - the colour, the great quality of the rest of the finish, and the gorgeous Wood Grain.
So, it all rather unexpectedly turned out to be a bit of a Rollercoaster ride of emotions and nerves - with both highs and lows - but I finally got there in the end and the Cabinet looks great where it is! ;o>
Could I be reported to Age Concern for cruelty to OAP Parents if I try to shut them in the Kitchen with Mitz the next time that someone comes to the Door with a Delivery for me???LOL!!! ;o>
i know what i'd do if it was my dad................but there's these daft laws that say i'm not allowed to murder him!
And now for the 'good news' ... ? ... (*GULP ! ! !*) ... ? ... LOL!!! ;o>So, there I was having a wander around the Internet when I came across one of the best looking Ercol Windsor Drinks Serving Cabinets last night on Vinterior that I have seen for sale in a while - and only just a couple of hours after it had been listed for sale.
And it's actually THE very Ercol Cabinet that I was looking for all along for all of last year when I came across the Corner Cabinets as well.
Again, it is costing me more than I had really wanted and hoped to be paying for it ... but then again ... it has also been listed as being in almost immaculate condition except for just a really tiny and slight ding on one of the Cupboard Doors. And I've thought on it all night long - and asked the Seller to confirm that there is no more damage to it than just that? - which he has - and so ... I've gone ahead and bought it!!!
It's coming over from Norfolk at sometime over the next fortnight ... so I was just wondering if anyone on here would like to have my Parents over to visit them for a few hours on Delivery Day? ... or maybe for the full day? ... a week? ... perhaps just a month or two?!! ;o>
Tech XXIII wrote: "i know what i'd do if it was my dad................but there's these daft laws that say i'm not allowed to murder him!"Would he like my M&D to come for a lonnnnnng visit, tech?! ;o>
sure, might as well be jailed for a spree!
I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that, tech! ;oOAfter all, the less that I can, Hand on Heart, swear that I know to be true when I'm called as a Witness for the Prosecution the better it will be for you when in Court! ;o>
ah! picked you up wrong - thought you were trying to enlist a hitman!
I might be? ... but you could be wired? ... so I'm not saying nuffin'!
Anita wrote: "hi Suzy ,I'm so pleased that your mum's birthday went off ok and that the cake was a success,although after seeing the photo I was sure it would be.sorry to be late with my birthday wishes I had a ..."You weren't too late, Anita? You were one of the first people to so very kindly pass their good wishes on ... x
The Cake Picture I posted up on here was the one that Ellie made for someone else and then posted up the Picture of it on her Facebook Page over a week ago. I asked her to make me an almost identical one because it was exactly what I was looking for - and she really excelled herself on Saturday by delivering THE most amazing Cake ever!!!
I went a bit mad and ordered an absolutely HUGE one!!! - LOL!!! ;o>
We've had two very large Slices each already, given almost half of it away to several Neighbours, and we still have enough to last us for another few days yet. I may even freeze some of it! ;o>
I'll post some of Mum's Cake Pictures up on my Profile for you when I can manage to find the little Camera Cable that plugs into my Laptop. It was/is just THE most perfect Cake in every way ... "OMG! - I must be in Chocolate Heaven!!!" ... was all that my Mum could manage to say when it was delivered ;o>
This cabinet saga/soap opera makes for a great read.Your descriptions are hilarious, I'm completely committed to reading more episodes.
Well, I just have to keep on with laughing at Life to stop it from really getting to me as just how bad things can be here with M&D sometimes.It certainly is getting harder and harder for my Dad to understand what is going on - and my Mum doesn't always help when she tries her best to cover for him in front of people by talking over and through him and by continually trying to find other things for him to go and do so he doesn't always try to take over everything else that is going on in HIS House and getting himself all the more confused, agitated, and fixated by it.
He isn't all that confused though that he doesn't have some idea of what she is trying to do and he responds in turn by getting increasingly furious with her and completely refusing to co-operate or to be distracted by her. He sadly doesn't get though that she is mostly just trying her best to protect him from coming across as being an extremely annoying and persistently bewildered old Man in other people's Eyes ;o<
He's been fretting away all day about this new Cabinet I've bought because "no-one consulted me about it" even though we have discussed it with him so many times now that I've lost count - and has been repeatedly asking me for all of the measurements and then wandering off to measure and then re-measure the Alcove that it is going to go in - because he's absolutely convinced himself that I won't have already thought all of this through as carefully as he would-of done and gone through all of this before I even got interested in trying to acquire one for us.
The first thing that I always do with almost everything around the House is to get my Tape Measure out - because there is no point at all in looking at anything that won't actually fit in nicely into where you want it to go, is there? - LOL!!! ;o>
My Neighbour, Liz, will be coming over in about an hour's time - so I'm just sat here counting down the minutes now to finally looking (and feeling) so much more like me again ;o>I'm going to have at least 8 inches cut off my Hair to hopefully get it back into it's usual shape and style again - and can barely wait to get rid of this unexpectedly awful length that has driven me completely nuts for so long now! - WOO-HOO!!! ;o>
We await your verdict Suzy. I hope it's everything you wished for.
Just SO delighted with my lovely short Pixie Cut with lots of layers, Val!!! ;o>Liz turned up with a Salon Cape and everything! And she was so friendly and in no hurry to rush giving me a really excellent cut. It actually looks just like it used to before my Hairdresser started changing the way she cut it (for whatever reason known only to her) and it curled just the way it used to and simply fell into place after washing it so I didn't need to use a Styling Brush or a Hairdryer on it! - YAYYY!!! ;o>
She only wanted half what I normally pay? - but I insisted on giving her the full amount because she was here over an hour AND after a full day's work at her Salon AND it was/is worth every last penny to have my Hair cut back into shape and into being manageable again ;o>
And, I was expecting her to say that she hoped she would see me at the Salon? - but instead she said all I had to do was give her a Call and she'd bob round anytime I needed my Hair doing?!! - so I don't need to worry about how to get a Taxi or lift to her Salon or have to struggle in on bad days when I'm in a lot of pain because she is expecting to continue to do it at our House in future should I decide to let her do my Hair from now on!
It's taken such a weight off my Mind as well as off my Head and Shoulders - LOL!!! - as, when Mum gave up driving and left me housebound as result, arranging for suitable and comfortable transport has always been such an unexpectedly tough challenge for me to sort out a lot of the time. And we all have to go as a family because I might suddenly need help from my Mum and we always have the worry too that my Dad shouldn't be left all on his own in the House for too long either.
I really have found myself the ideal Hairdresser in Liz in every way possible ;o>
Off soon to get my Brace Wires changed as well! ;o>I already know that it's going to hurt like Hell afterwards - but it's SO wonderful to have everything all coming together beautifully for me for a change ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Just SO delighted with my lovely short Pixie Cut with lots of layers, Val!!! ;o>Liz turned up with a Salon Cape and everything! And she was so friendly and in no hurry to rush giving me a really ..."
Brilliant, Suzy! So good to know that there are such lovely people. :o)
happy new hairdresser! excellento!s'pose i can't go for the short pixie cut now!
my man would charge double anyhoo! :)
Great news Suzy! You sound a real picture - Audrey Hepburn maybe?
Isabella wrote: "Brilliant, Suzy! So good to know that there are such lovely people. :o)"I'm just SO made up about it, Isabella, because I've been struggling so much with my Hair for quite a few years - and I know now that I really should-of bitten the bullet on this and tried out another Hairdresser but ... you get comfortable and familar with someone over the decades, don't you? - and I've lost such a lot of confidence since becoming disabled ... in myself, in how I look to other people, and in my deteriorating Health with my Body so often failing to respond and to co-operate with me whenever I really need for it to do so.
Such simple things like a really good Hair Cut can make such a H U G E difference to feeling far more confident and to being able to cope with and to maintain high personal standards when it comes to appearance in private as well as in public.
I still want to try to go to Liz at her Salon on my good days because I do need to get myself out of the House and to get to share in some company and conversation beyond mostly only talking out loud or singing to Mitz and typing Posts out on the Forums.
I was surprised at how rough my Throat felt afterwards and then realised that it was probably because I rarely get to use my Voice all that much or for all that long in any kind of conversation with anyone these days - LOL!!! ;o>
Tech XXIII wrote: "happy new hairdresser! excellento!s'pose i can't go for the short pixie cut now!
my man would charge double anyhoo! :)"
I've got quite a bagful of very long Hair trimmings now - and could send it to you if you want to try to make yourself a Pixie Hair Style Wig out of it, tech?! ;o>
Val wrote: "Great news Suzy! You sound a real picture - Audrey Hepburn maybe?"Ohhh, do I wish, Val!!! ... the Hair, well? - maybe? - but not the Face sadly! ;o>
It looks very similar to this - but not quite as bouffant! ;o> ...
https://live.staticflickr.com/1939/43...
Love it! Wish my baby fine hair would sit like that!
My Hair is quite fine as well and tends to lie much flatter than this - but, so long as it is cut well and I blow-dry it to get plenty of Root lift, this Style isn't actually all that hard for me to achieve and only takes me 10 to 15 minutes with a Hair Dryer.I always used to apply just a tiny touch of Extra Strong Hair Gel through my Fringe while it was still wet just to 'thicken' my Hair texture and help it to hold it's lift and shape more once blow-dried without it ending up in being too set and stiff - like it would be if I had used Hair Spray.
I've kept this Style since my teens but stopped bothering with the Hair Gel when I got into my 30s and went for a much softer and 'floppier' look instead - but I've been thinking about re-useing the Hair Gel again recently as I really liked the way that it always gave me that extra bit of lift and hold to my Fringe which I often like have sitting a little more over my Forehead than in the picture.
Now that Liz has given me such a perfect layered Cut I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to play around with my Hair (as much as I am able) and to have some fun with it like I used to - maybe even restart with putting a few streaks of temporary Colour through it again from time to time ;o>
It's been SO long since I could do anything much at all with it - and, to be honest with you, I just wish I'd realised sooner that it was still possible to have my Hair like this instead of keeping on with just accepting and resigning myself to the Cut that my Hairdresser was giving me. It had clearly become a Cut that wasn't what I was wanting and asking her for and had somehow evolved over the years I've been going to her into being something that sadly wasn't making my usual Style achievable anymore, or suiting my Hair and working for me.
Lesson learned! ... don't just settle for less - or be afraid to try elsewhere ;o>
I usually tend to Post these daft News Snippets elsewhere (on the Complete Bollocks Thread) but I fancied a bit of a change so I'm posting this up on here instead ;o> ..."Mystery ‘creature’ lurking in Polish tree turns out to be croissant!
A strange-looking creature perched on a tree left residents in a Polish neighbourhood in a bit of a panic. However, when rescuers answered the distress call, it turned out to be not a living being - but a dried out croissant!
A woman recently made a frantic call to the Krakow Society for the Protection of Animals (KSPA), complaining about the mysterious presence of a very strange brown creature that hadn’t moved from a tree for the past two days ... "Come and get him! ... people aren’t opening their windows because they’re afraid he will go into their house. Everyone is afraid of him” ... the woman reportedly told the agency over the telephone.
A KSPA inspector also tried to determine if it was an abandoned animal or if it was a prank. As they tried to understand as to what animal it might be for those who were preparing to rescue it, the woman seemed unsure, but said it’s definitely not a bird.
After trying for some time, the woman finally decided that it looked like an Iguana.
The Rescue Team that arrived at the address couldn’t spot any animal in need of rescue, let alone an Iguana, in the freezing cold temperature - so an inspector called the woman to confirm if it was still there and to ask which tree it was on?
Finally, after a great deal of effort, they did spot the ‘creature’ stuck fast inbetween the forked branches of a lilac tree and, in a tongue-in-cheek post, the agency wrote (originally in Polish): “His brown skin was shining in the sun although he seemed to have suffered from some sort of internal collapse. Looking more closely the poor guy also had no legs or head"
"It is difficult to help something when the sight of it almost knocks us off our feet ... with an attack of laughter," KSPA said. The agency jokingly added, “Because it’s hard to help something that was previously baked but not in the sunlight. The Iguana turned out to be ... a croissant ! ... a croissant that was made of puff pastry. It probably fell out of one of the windows."
The Rescue Team speculated that the pastry might have been left out for the birds. "He(?) was sitting there and looked quite nice ... he had liberated his imagination and took on reptilian features," KSPA said. "He was almost moving like he was getting ready to invade and was beginning to resemble a dragon child."
Although this might seem to be an unbelievable story the KSPA said the incident was indeed genuine. The organisation reacted to the situation by saying the public should continue to report any concerns about animal welfare.
“It’s better to check and be pleasantly disappointed, sometimes (unfortunately very rarely) laugh, than not react which can then sometimes lead to a tragedy,” it added."
! ... ;o>
I loved the croissant story.Im glad you managed to get your hair sorted Suzy,Mine hasn't been cut in over a year so I'd better sort something out.One of my twins had hers cut yesterday ,it had been almost to her waist and she actually now has a similar style to her brother.(small sob)She's donated her hair to the children with cancer charity to make wigs.To be honest it will make things a lot easier,she hates brushing it.
Ohhh, how wonderful, Anita! - and what a lovely thing for someone so young to do! ;o>Having had no other choice but to bear with it growing for so long I was also thinking about whether I could do this as well? - but my Hair was sadly still a good few inches too short to be able to donate it ... and when I thought about how much longer it was going to take to get it to the desired length and how I was going to have to endure it throughout the high heat of the Summer as well ... I'm ashamed to admit that I chickened out of the idea ... because I knew that it would drive me completely nuts to have to tolerate even just another week of it already being far too long for me.
It did feel such a terrible waste seeing so much get cut off and then bagged up for the Bin though - and I'm so full of admiration for anyone who can manage to bear to grow their Hair out long enough to be able to do this ;o>
I wish there was a way to link to Thread Posts on here as I've been responding to Val on the ... TV, radio, cinema, books & tech - "I read a book once - Green it was" Thread ... with all kinds of info that it suddenly occurred to me that maybe P might possibly also be interested in? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Anyways, if you are around and might be interested, P ... I initially recommended a Book to Val by Harry Bernstein called ... The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers ... and Val was asking about some of the places in Stockport that Harry mentions from his childhood years of living here between 1910 and 1922.
This set me off on a really fascinating journey all around central Stockport via the Internet finding out what it was like back then and I also discovered some really amazing and quite detailed Links to historical photographs, accounts, articles and even a circa 1900s film of Cotton Workers coming and going through the main Entrance of a Mill Factory too ;o>
It's been an exhausting yet also extremely satisfying and enjoyable couple of days of research back to a time that was only just around a decade before my Nan (my Great Grandmother) left Ireland (almost for forever after) to come to Stockport in search of work and a new life for herself and her two young children ... my Great Aunt and my Grandad ;o>
This Notice really cracked me up today! ;o> ...
I can hardly bear to wait now to dive in! - LOL!!! ;o> ...
Here we go again! Welcome to the new normal. Fifteen confirmed cases of community transmission and we've all ground to a halt. Masks are once again compulsory, gatherings of 5 people in private and 30 in public. I have managed two operas over the last two Saturdays but that may be it for the immediate future. I was so looking forward to Kiwi singer Marlon Williams tomorrow night (Row C!!!) but it's cancelled. And the gorgeous Melody Pool was gracing us on Friday night - but that too is "postponed". Just waiting to hear whether Saturday's performance of the play "The Lifespan of a Fact" is off and that will be the trifecta! Such is life!
Awww Val ... x x xAt least you have had quite a few golden opportunities to reunite and get together with all of your family - and to get out and about and to manage to get back to having some kind of normality there over the last few weeks.
It's a start, isn't it? - a quite significant step in the right direction now and one that will hopefully help to sustain and boost your spirit during this latest Lock-down ... x
It's been ever such a long and shocking and sad journey from there to here ... and we all knew that it wasn't ever going to just be over, just like that, and that it might involve keeping on taking one step back for every two steps forward.
I have got some good news? ... the Ercol Windsor Drinks Serving Cabinet arrived here on Tuesday ... and it is absolutely perfect! - and actually even looks brand new despite it now being almost 50 years!!! ... My Dad is delighted with it and my Mum can hardly get over just how "gorgeous" it is and how much she absolutely loves it. It really is a stunning piece of Furniture - and I'm just SO glad now that I chose to trust in and went with my gut on buying it - because it looks even more amazing in real life than in the online Photographs and I know that I couldn't have ever found us a more beautiful one or one that is in such an incredible condition as this one either ;o>
I just need to get some crystal clear PVC sheets off Amazon to cover and protect the Shelves from being damaged by the hard rough plastic underneath edges of the Printer, etc.
I had considered putting some Felt Furniture Patches underneath the Printer and Laptop at first - but the PVC will give the added bonus of also being heat and stain resistant - while still allowing for all of the beautiful Wood Grain to be clearly seen (and to be admired) by us every time we open the Cupboards ;o>
Thanks Isabella - it really does, doesn't it?! ;o>I was really stressing myself out SO much before it's delivery because it was around £200 more than I had originally been planning on paying for one.
However all of the Cabinets, that I have been searching for online and checking out over the last two years, have had some rather obvious damage somewhere on them - as you would naturally come to expect to find on a Cabinet that was made sometime back in the late 1960's to early 1970's.
This particular Cabinet though immediately stood out as being very special and quite unique in that it is pretty much about as near to being in brand new and perfect condition - plus the Wood Grain is consistently SO gorgeous throughout inside and out. The slightly honeyed warm Colour Tone is also an incredibly close match to all of the rest of the Ercol Furniture that we already have as well ... and I was finding it nigh on impossible to be able to tick every box on my exacting Check List until I suddenly came across this one only just a couple of hours after it had been listed for sale.
Seeing the utterly amazed and delighted looks on M&D's Faces when it was completely unpacked was also wonderful for me - a priceless moment ;o> ... and I also think that it's absolutely gorgeous, just like Mum does, even though I've never previously been all that much of a fan of Ercol ;o>
Your new cabinet is beautiful Suzy and it looks like it will do the job you intended it to. What a relief that your Dad also likes it. I hope you didn't have the same problems as last time with the delivery - i.e. Mum and Dad bailing up the driver, rearranging the furniture in the absolutely wrong configuration, etc. I don't know what you paid for it but I'm sure it must have been a bargain compared to the other cabinets the site has for sale. Here's to many happy years with it!
Yeah? ... Hmmm? ... confession time! ... I'm afraid I lied and said that I thought that it might be coming later on in the afternoon and so M&D were both enjoying a Lie-in and still in Bed when it arrived! - LOL!!! It was SO incredibly well packaged that it took almost a quarter of an hour to remove it all! - but the Courier (only just the one very nice young Lad) kindly offered to unwrap it for me so that I could get to see it before he left ... just in case there had been any unexpected damage to it since all of the Listing Photos were taken.
M&D were far too busy in getting up and dressed and so they didn't make it downstairs until after it was all opened up and had been very carefully examined by me and the Courier first ;o>
I know it was/is worth every last penny that I've spent on it ... so going for it and spending more on it than I had previously intended to (yet again! - just like I did with the Corner Cabinet! ;o>) was definitely the right decision for me to make.
I very much doubt that I would ever have found another one that was any better or anymore as beautiful as this one is - and I know that I would have come to always regret not buying it if I had not done so ;o>
I'm not all that keen on plastic covers but needs must, as my Dad can be very heavy-handed and clumsy and especially now that he usually can't, or often won't try to, bend down anymore, and we don't want the action of him dragging his Laptop or the Printer out and shoving them back in again to cause any dints and deep gouges to the new Cabinet.So, I've had a long and good look all around Amazon and checked out all of the Reviews, and finally decided to give these a go ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
The 80 x 40 cm should be almost bang on exactly the right size ;o>
Do I live such an utterly fascinating life or what?! - LOL!!! ;o>So, yesterday, Iceland Home Delivery actually dared to substitute an order for three packs of Iceland Luxury 4 BREADED Chunky Cod Fillets with three packs of Iceland Luxury 4 BATTERED Chunky Cod Fillets instead! ... yeah?! - I KNOW?!! - how utterly shocking and completely unforgiveable is that, huh?! ;oO
I usually just write off the odd mistake, or missing, or damaged Item - but, as it came to £10.50 worth of goods, and we all much prefer the Breaded version for taste as well as Health reasons, I decided to send Customer Services an Email as directed by their Website - although I must admit that I did feel a bit embarrased and also rather ridiculous in doing so.
I mean, here we all are still very much in the midst of a Worldwide CoronaVirus Pandemic! ... and what am I keeping myself busy with doing?! ... Emailing a Frozen Foods Supermarket to complain about receiving the wrong packs of Fish Fillets to the ones that I had ordered?!! ... ;oO
However, within a mere hour, I got such a lovely and extremely apologetic Email in reply which promised to arrange for a Van to come by and drop off our ... "Bearded Chucky Cod Fits" ... (?!!) ... at sometime today.
To be absolutely honest, I'm not altogether sure that we will like their "Bearded Chucky Cod Fits" any better than we do the Battered ones?! ... but, nevertheless, I've been waiting now and almost continually looking out of the Front Window ever since 9am this morning, as I don't know quite when they will turn up, and whether they will be permitted (due to Covid Safety Regulations) to accept the three packs of Battered Cod back in exchange.
And I need to keep an Eye out for them because the Fish is in the Freezer - in the Garage - so, as soon as I see the Van turn up, I need to race off (as fast as I ever can these days) to go and get it and have it ready at the Door to hand over if they do want it returned.
Oooh! ... nothing as a Child ever prepares you as an Adult for such incredibly thrilling and exciting times as these, does it?!! - LOL!!! ;o>
Suzy, promise you'll sit down with a nice cup of something soothing after all this excitement. You know it makes sense! ;o)
My entire day has now been spent mostly perching on the rather uncomfortable edge of an Ercol Chair in the Dining Room by the Front Window ... trying my very best not to look like I've joined in with all of the other Curtain Twitchers who live around here! ... and I've had virtually nothing else but thoughts of Fish swimming around inside my Mind! - LOL!!! ;o>This is just SO NOT what I thought life would be like when I grew up!
HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>
If anyone wants me ... I'll be inside my Blanket Fort in the Back Garden ... doing lots of colouring in with Crayons and eating Jelly Tots! ;o>
Did they change them Suzy?i'm a battered fan myself but the beasties have breaded.we had a morning In the park with Playball,then lunch there and a play with friends, then off to the village green to have a class birthday party,we have a pizza van who parks there on a Friday so we ordered. I collected the beasties pizzatook it back to them when it turned out that there was also Nutella pizza ,Suzy you would have loved t.hat
They never turned up, Anita! ... although my Mum saw at least two Iceland Vans in the Road today while I was upstairs taking a break from my Cod Fillet vigil.One was doing a Delivery around the corner of the Road - and the other was one she saw parked up for several minutes at the other end of the Road close to our nearest main Road.
I can't believe that I've now also got to sit it out again tomorrow just so that we don't miss them coming ... and we are going to lose our Broadband so we can be connected up to Fibre tomorrow AND what's the betting that they will be using Email to try to contact me about this while I might be temporarily offline?! - LOL!!! ;o>
Ahhh well!!! ;o>
I don't mind the odd Battered Cod from the Chip Shop? - but I'd much rather always buy Breaded Fillets in for the Freezer to make up one of our favourite Lunch Meals of Fish Fillet Butties ;o>
I've never actually tried Nutella? ... but I am a lifelong and HUGE Sunpat Crunchy Peanut Butter fan!
Unfortunately, so was Tia and so is Mitzi as well, and I can't ever manage to so much as open up a Jar of Peanut Butter without a little hairy woofer immediately materialising from seemingly out of nowhere - and then giving me the full-on sad pleading Eye treatment until I just have to give in and let her lick the Spoon! ;o
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It can be SO incredibly hard having to cope with living with severe immobility - thinking through every move you might still be able to manage to make and having to live far more inside of your own Mind than in your Body.
Your Mind though continues to still stay active and can often go into complete overdrive as a result - which unfortunately only increases your ongoing sense of frustration and helplessness that your Body simply won't or can't co-operate with making most, if any, of your many thoughts about wanting to do anything into reality.
I don't know how lack of mobility affects and feels like to Lez? - but I know that, for me, I can sometimes find myself actually at screaming point inside of my own Head on my really bad days - and all that I can do then is shut myself off from everyone and shut myself down until the sheer intensity of all of my thoughts and feelings begin to burn themselves out and I can start to get the upperhand once again on finding ways to keep on coping with it.
I consider myself to be very lucky and blessed in that I can call out and ask my Mum for some help if absolutely necessary - and just hearing M&D about the House and knowing that they are around creates a very useful distraction from becoming too caught up in all of my own thoughts and feelings and helps to provide a reassuring presence.