Dry run

It has been a fairly relaxed day. The Silver Vixen has been catching up on some washing and getting some of her things ironed. The Gorse Fox will iron his stuff when it is dry. (He has a slight problem with his shoulder at present and couldn't lift his arm to use the iron anyway. He's sure it will settle in a day or so).

We have also been having a run through of the checklists for our next trip. (These trips are beginning to stack up rather). Recently we had two new suitcases delivered. Today was an occasion to have a bit of a dry run in terms of packing. Was there sufficient space? Can we make do with the one case each? What would go in hand luggage? What would be needed for overnight? All questions that are best answered well in advance. What it did throw up was the fact that the Gorse Fox's old shorts were not going to be serviceable - they are huge! He recently bought a new pair from M&S think the two pairs would be ample. Not so, there's only the one pair... so he logged on to M&S and ordered a second pair.

Talking of orders, the Gorse Fox ordered some accessories for the pressure washer last week. They were dispatched on Monday and should have arrived on Thursday. Still no sight of them. The Gorse Fox wrote to the company and pointed out the delay and the fact that they had not provided a tracking number. They quickly got back and said the Gorse Fox should leave it the full 7 days - but by the way here's the tracking number. The Gorse Fox logged on to the Royal Mail site and entered the tracking number. It would be interesting to see what had happened to the accessories. Oh no, this is really useful - it will only give you tracking details once they have tried to deliver it (by which time you probably don't care about the tracking details). Someone hasn't really thought through the use case!