Although, I suppose, it wasn't all that unexpected. It was payday, so we had planned to go to Waitrose when I finished work to lay in supplies. Plus, my whole sheep and half pig were due to be delivered in the morning and would need putting into bags for the freezer (they do come butchered and in packs, but the packs are sufficient for a small army and we really don't need to eat quite that many pork or lamb chops in a sitting!!). So I was all organised to be sorting out food when I finished work for the weekend.
Then I had a phone call from Freyja.
Some sort of computer catastrophe had beset Tabitha's place of work. Which is not good when you work in the online shopping section of a major supermarket the weekend before Christmas! Tabitha was going to have to work back late to help sort it all out. Gareth works until 7. Cally would need picking up from the nursery. Could we do it for Freyja was not free?
OK. This can be done. I'll leave work a little early and hotfoot it to Waitrose and do the shopping. We don't need much. The Builder can meet me there as planned and we'll go and collect Cally.
But wait! How will we get in to Cally's house? We don't have a key :-S
Change of plan. We'll go to Tabitha's supermarket, collect the key and *then* go to collect Cally.
Oh. But no car seat. Never mind. I can carry her home. The nursery isn't all that far away.
Right. So off I go. dash into Waitrose. Do the shopping. Head outside. Still no sign of The Builder. Get text message. He's in London. London? What's he doing in London?!? Oh - message was truncated!!! He's in London Road at a standstill in traffic. Eventually he turns up. Off we head to Taffa's supermarket. Or rather, off we don't head. Huge lots of traffic is taking a shortcut through the Waitrose carpark and it takes over half an hour to get out. Try to ring Tabitha to say that the timings are beginning to look doubtful - Cally has to be collected by 6 and it's already 5 and we're still in the Waitrose car park :-S Phone constantly engaged :-S
Eventually, we escape. And then the traffic just melted away and ten minutes later I was collecting the house keys from Tabitha. Just as well I hadn't been able to contact Tabitha from the Waitrose carpark!!! No worries getting out of the Sainsbury's car park and ten minutes after that I was talking to a rather surprised Cally in the nursery. She wasn't altogether delighted to see me, but cheered up as we walked back to her place and looked at Christmas trees in shop windows, and doggies waiting outside shops for their people. We even got to say hello to a police officer.
She was unimpressed to find The Builder sitting in her lounge room but cheered up when bribed with a small yoghurt pot, and was pleased but not noticeably relieved when her daddy got home just after 7.
Was all a bit stressful in the Waitrose carpark though!!
Still. It all worked out all right. And the pork and sheep are now sorted out and nestling in their new freezer bags in the freezer. And we had magnificent pork chops for dinner last night
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