Today was my first day back to work after the bank holiday weekend. Weather-wise it can only be described as a wash out. Rain, rain and more rain. However the weekend itself was not a wash out.

The new cooker has been repaired, all that was required was a new bolt on the fan. It turned out that the one it came with was not to spec and also threadless!!

On Saturday we undertook a two hour journey to spend the day with my 90 year old aunt. This left us with Sunday and Monday free to do as we pleased.

The weather looked promising on Sunday morning so we ventured out to Ludlow for the afternoon. As soon as we set off the weather turned and it started to rain. When we arrived we visited Ludlow Castle book shop because Mr C thought there might be some books to interest him there. He came away empty handed. We walked through the bank holiday stalls and detoured into The Parish Church of St Laurence which we found to be a lovely church with interesting history and spectacular stained glass windows.

We didn’t stay very long because whilst we were there a baptism service started to be conducted near the main entrances to the church. Both Mr C and I thought it was inappropriate that visitors should still be allowed to wander round the church whilst a religious service was going on so we discreetly made our way back to the entrance and left. We will take time to visit the church when we are next in Ludlow. It was raining as we left the church so we returned home via the Ludlow food centre.

On Monday it was raining again so we spent the day at home working on the house and I had an extra day off on Tuesday when to be honest I didn’t really do anything at all… I was feeling rather tired and lethargic.

Over the weekend we were also informed that Yodel had ‘lost’ another of our wine deliveries!! On the plus side the new curtain material eventually arrived and have now been made up into curtains and are now looking rather splendid in our living room nicely framing the view to our garden

It is seven days since we received the strange delivery note saying Sorry I missed you when I came to deliver parcels “Their was another box of wine I think it was double ordered”. The tracking number is still not available for tracking on the Yodel website. Our supplier can’t get any sense out of Yodel either, it seems our wine delivery is lost in the mystic ether.

Our supplier has pulled out all the stops and sourced new supplies of some of the bottles that have gone missing, unfortunately the bottles of a particularly nice Rose we had ordered for Christmas lunch are not among those that they found.

I think another phone call (from Mr C) to Yodel as to  the whereabouts of our delivery is in order!!

Update (18 Dec 2014) – The replacement wines sourced by our supplier were delivered today. They were left with our next door neighbour for safekeeping whilst we were out. Hurrah!!

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Yodel Ho Ho Ho!!

You might recall my recent day of successful deliveries that arrived on 6th December. One of the Christmas deliveries I mentioned was a part delivery of wine that had been ordered for Christmas, some of which was for presents. The supplier informed us that the partial delivery was due to part of the consignment not reaching the couriers collection slot in time. Mr C arranged with the supplier that the remaining part of the order would be delivered on the following Saturday when at least one of us would be at home.

The delivery activity regarding the remainder of the order took on a bizarre turn of events culminating in a strange delivery note from Yodel… Sorry I missed you when I came to deliver parcels “Their was another box of wine I think it was Double ordered”. We were left wondering what on earth that meant… Mr C phoned up Yodel to find out and was told he had refused delivery at 8.37. How odd we were both in the house at that time and neither of us noticed anyone trying to deliver anything!!

The next day the supplier contacted Mr C by email, asking why he had refused the delivery, to which he replied:

Hi S,

Thanks for getting in touch.

To be honest I’m very confused by the delivery arrangements for this order.

On Wednesday  3^rd December, I ordered a lot of wine, some of which is for gifts, and paid for a Saturday delivery.

On Saturday 6^th, one box of wines arrived. Then I received an email from Naked Wines advising that some of my consignment had missed the courier’s collection slot on Friday 5th. I replied to Naked Wines asking for the delayed part of my order to be delivered on a Saturday and received confirmation that this would be arranged.

On Monday 8^th December, two more boxes of wines arrived though one was subsequently removed by the Yodel driver for delivery to the correct (i.e. another) household!

On Tuesday 9^th December, I came home to find that Yodel had left a card upon which was handwritten, “Their was another box of wine. I think it was double ordered”. I contacted Yodel that evening to find out what this might mean, only to be told that I had refused delivery at 08:37 that morning. I had not. Yodel said that they would request redelivery for Wednesday 10^th December.

On Wednesday 10^th December, your email below arrived (though no wine as yet – Yodel apparently deliver until 9pm).

So… Yes please, I would still like the wine that someone at Yodel refused on my behalf and without asking. A Saturday delivery would be best but given the chaos that all couriers appear to be experiencing at the moment, any day of the week will do.

Regards,

Mr C.