Incompetent or What?

I measured the gap from every possible angle (except the one where there's no fridge in the way). I dismantled part of a fitted cupboard. I cleaned and cleared and planned. I bit my nails down to the knuckles while cleaning out the hens in case the phone call came that the fridge was an hour away, while I had them ranging free. When the call came (at 3.15) I disgorged the contents of the fridge and the freezer into containers that would keep them close to the correct temperature.

The men arrived around 4pm. They measured up, and said they thought the appliance would fit even without the removal of the skirting board which they wouldn't do even if I paid them). They unpacked the appliance on the tailgate of their van to check the measurements. I took one look at the naked front of the thing and knew.

It had no water cooler. It had one door. It was a freezer. Just a freezer. No fridge.

The men took it away. I phoned the helpline. They phoned the store, which, unusually stays open till 5pm on a Sunday, when most close at 4pm. They do not have a fridge freezer at the price I paid. The sales assistant who served me swears we looked at lots of things, he can't poimt to the one I settled for.

WELL IT COULDN'T BE THE FREEZER, DIMBO, 'COS I DIDN'T LOOK AT ANY OF THOSE 'COS I DIDN'T WANT ONE! No wonder I couldn't find the exact one with the right code on the internet yesterday.

So I'd been overcharged for the wrong thing. Seems it must have been my fault for not noticing that he'd called up the wrong code number on the computer. Or that the label on the appliance must have been the wrong one in the wrong place. All my fault, you see? I should have mastered their system, even though it is obviously a mystery to them.

I have also wasted a precious Sunday, not to mention the couple of hours spent choosing the damn thing on Friday. And I don't have a new fridge freezer, only a bloody great big fury boiling up inside.

Oh - and if I'd bought the same thing from the same company's online store, it would only have been £499.

Brits - don't EVER buy from Comet. Unless you love being wound up to breaking point. "We live electricals"? If I have my way, you'll die by them.

Intense

Our Bobby displays intensity like no other detective in the history of TV.

He even looks intense from the back.





















Now I'd like to get intense with him.

It's Official!

I'm crazy.

My girlies are so kind as to provide me with the fruit of their rear ends, and to reward them for their selflessness, I feed them the huge quantities of green stuff they demand every time I go into the garden. It takes a lot of storage if you cannot get to the shops every day. (And costs a lot more than the price of a dozen eggs...)

My current fridge-freezer is just not big enough. But it slots into a rather narrow space between a fitted cupboard and a chimney breast. The appliance is just 21.5" wide, with a small gap on either side.

I measured up carefully (OK, not very carefully, not realising how close to my maximum all the new machines would be) and went off to choose a new one.

I chose something like this:

Only dearer, of course. No rubbish for my egg-providers. They save me pennies a week! So I went for the super-duper stainless steel frost-free self-defrosting version with water dispenser for just £699!

This is where it would have been better if my measurements had been of pinpoint accuracy. The fridge is 59.5cm wide, and no matter how many ways I measure it, the gap is at its maximum (this is an old house, no walls are completely straight) just 59.4cm.

There is a little bit of skirting board that might be removed to widen the gap, but here is the $64,000 question.

Will the delivery men wrench in off for me if that will make the f-f fit? And if they do, will the gap be wide enough all the way up?

Watch this space tomorrow for the latest rivetting news.

Thought Process

It's amazing how Vincent makes Bobby's thought processes so clear.

And what do you think?

Baby, don't frown

Let me iron out those creases.
















Gratuitous back shots:

On the Shoulders of Giants

And what a set of shoulders this giant has!

Happy Birthday Vincent D'Onofrio

Thank you for being our favourite hunk, our big, sweet, gentle giant, our sexy softie, our best ever genius actor.

And I'll bet little Luca would join Leila and Elias in saying to their lovely dad: Have a great day!

Bastard Luck

Do things really come in Threes?

On Sunday, my neighbour trod on her glasses, breaking them. She thought nothing of it.

Yesterday her hand was crushed on the bus when the driver braked suddenly, and her shopping trolley moved, trapping her hand between the handle and a rail. She spent 3 hours at the hospital.

Today a delivery van (Tesco's for those who know them) reversed into her front wall. He didn't even bother to stop and ring the doorbell. Unluckily for him, the neighbour on the other side saw it all. And being a lawyer, he's a great witness to have. But still she has a broken wall and all the hassle of putting in a claim and getting it repaired.

She never did a single bit of harm to anyone. She has been a great neighbour for 33 years.

If there is a god, he'd better keep clear of me.

A Man of Some Standing

Trust me, it was hard to exclude the sitting, crouching, perching and other alluring positions our Bobby takes, just to live up to this title.