It was still quite windy, but it was bright and sunny when we got up. It was set to be a fairly typical Thursday with shopping on the agenda. Sure enough, the nice man from Ocado turned up at the allotted time and delivered our weekly shopping. Later in the morning, we headed across to Sainsbury’s for the top-up shop.
In between we had been awaiting the fitter from the Orangery company. He needed to come and “make safe” and measure up from a replacement unit. He had called, early last week, and arranged to be here between 9 and 10, today. Now, could there have been a misunderstanding? Did he say Thursday and mean a different Thursday? Well, that might be feasible if he said Thursday in isolation. He didn’t. He specifically said Thursday the 29th. This is not ambiguous. Adding to Thursday “the 29th” is, what is known as, a disambiguation. This is what was written into our calendar. He, however, wrote Thursday 6th August into his diary. Morning wasted.
Brother-in-law reaches 60 in October and we have been invited to a celebration in Milton Keynes. The Gorse Fox spent an interesting hour selecting an hotel for the night. Some relied on public car parks, one had limited on-site parking on a first come first served basis, it was fairly easy to whittle the list down. In the end we chose the Doubletree and booked.
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