LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

A least your chainsaw can have safe sex now, Jiffy.

 

In preparation of the redesigning of the hard area (patio, gable end path and large area behind the 3 garages that line my garden I've been busily buying large plastic composters to replace the huge, old present compost heap. Two of them were due to be delivered in the first week of November, then on the 12th November, then on the 16th November, and after making a "enquiry" to the seller via Amazon I have been told they will definitely be delivered on 22nd November in the morning....(pinch of salt required). Also the Composters don't come with a base (soil fence) so you have to buy them as extras. Trying to get them is like trying to find



as the people selling the composters don't have the bases or, if they do, they don't have the size of base to fit the larger composters I managed to buy the last two in stock, after a lot of searching, from another retailer in Germany. They were supposed to arrive tomorrow but arrived today and luckily I was at home so better that than another late delivery. I've, since buying the first two composters , bought another one of the same size and yet again had to search for a base for that but in the end had to settle for ordering from the same retailer where I've got the first two bases from, who is now out of stock, but will get one for me. But, both the 3rd Composter and the base are not estimated to arrive until after Christmas!! I would have thought ordering garden stuff would be easy but the practice of retailers holding minimal stock can be a pain!!

 

Just as an add on to my purchasing composters and the numerous changes in delivery dates, the third composter, ordered 2 days ago from a different retailer, was originally given a delivery date in January next year, a e-mail yesterday was vaguer saying delivery would be 3 to 5 weeks. Today there were two e-mails giving first a delivery date in December, and the second e-mail saying 1 January........just to finish that off I got a phone call this afternoon to say it would be delivered next Monday!!!!

 

Toes as well, Sheal. Plus, if all works out the first two composters should be delivered tomorrow morning.

 

I hope they deliver to the right house.

I arrived home about 10 p.m. the other night and saw a cardboard box sitting on the grass verge, under a lamppost, outside one of my neighbours. Although it was drizzling I decided to have a look. It was a delivery from a food company, marked 'Urgent, same day delivery' and had an address on it which is a house 300yds up the road. It gave delivery instructions on the outside of 'If no answer, drop it over the gate'. Attached to the box was a delivery card saying 'You were out and we have left your delivery in a safe place'.

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't those delivery notes supposed to be put through the person's letter box and not attached to the package and left 300yds away on a grass verge? I'm not sure that I would want my parcels delivered (or not) by DPD!

Fortunately, in very small print, there was a name and phone number on the box to whom it was to be delivered. So I phoned them and we met half way between our houses. Apparently they had only moved in six weeks ago so now have a good opinion of the neighbours

 

They did, Shiney. In fact, the delivery of the composters was at 08.15 this morning The delivery base was in Manchester and yet the driver had already done two deliveries in Congleton. So now the two composters are in the garage waiting to be put together after the landscapers have finished. If all goes well, I will have the 3rd composter delivered on Monday and will only need the soil fence to it, which hopefully be delivered before New Year