{"id":1440,"date":"2020-12-16T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:40:51","slug":"wednesday-16th-december-2020-day-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/16\/wednesday-16th-december-2020-day-275\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 16th December, 2020 [Day 275]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started off in a dark and gloomy way and did not improve practically all day. We are always a little delayed on a Wednesday because there were various cosmetic things that we decided to renew via the internet and then there is our weekly Waitrose<\/em> order to update. This has to be done by 12 midday before our delivery slot tomorrow morning (between 8am-9am). We had intended to walk as usual to the\u00a0park but it was\u00a0raising so intensely we decided to ‘chicken out’ and go down to collect our newspapers in the car.Then we parked in the Sanders Park car park and made straight for the bandstand where we enjoyed our coffee in a vertical (i.e. standing) position rather than sitting on a soggy,\u00a0rain-strewn bench. Then we made\u00a0straight for home\u00a0where we treated ourselves to some hot chocolate – we had got a\u00a0little bit soggy but not drenched through which could have been the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we moved into this house some 13 years go, the first thing I did practically was to use a firm\u00a0which supplied us with\u00a0address labels (Able-Label<\/em> – they have been going for years) We ordered 1,000 labels but we are reaching the stage when they may soon be exhausted. About this time of year, I always use a supply of labels to stick inside my Christmas cards in case the recipient has lost my details and they know who the card is from. A friend of ours with whom we have a regular lunch date when we can had sent me a\u00a0Christmas card but I\u00a0realised that I didn’t have an address to send a return card. A few\u00a0messages later on, we had got some address details to ‘stitch’ into our\u00a0computer file and we\u00a0promised each other to meet as soon as we could after the lockdown for another meal where we can catch up on what’s happening in each other’s lives. Anyway, I marshalled together all of the remaining labels that I had and worked out\u00a0the I probably had just about\u00a0sufficient for this Christmas cards so I ordered a new supply for when this runs out. The ‘old-fashioned’ way of doing this was, of course, to fill in the\u00a0details carefully on one of their forms and despatch a cheque to cover the cost. But times have now changed – everything is composed in the firm’s web page and then it is paid for via Paypal<\/em> (in my case). \u00a0I took the opportunity to ‘squeeze’ the\u00a0telephone number line so that I could get my mobile number also added to the address. However, whilst I was at it, I\u00a0realised that the standard address label (name, address, postcode, telephone number which takes up six lines maximum needs to be supplemented for today’s\u00a0communication needs. So I decided to order a new set of additional labels which now details my mobile, email address, (no\u00a0FaceTime details as it\u00a0happens), my\u00a0personal\u00a0website, the WordPress blog address and finally a text version of this blog I keep on another server in case the first goes down completely and all is lost. This new set of labels should prove quite useful if I know I am handing over details to friends and acquaintances who are computer literate so they can access these other information sources if the spirit moves them. Most of the afternoon was actually taken up with getting the labels ‘on screen’ line up as they ought with the sticky labels that are fed into the printer. I needed to print out several ‘trial’ sheets and then match up by eye to ensure the\u00a0onscreen-entry actually matched up with the label that was to be printed. If you did it any other way, you\u00a0would run the risk of wasting many sheets of the labels\u00a0which are quite\u00a0precious. Earlie in\u00a0the day, I had ordered a new supply of computer labels ready fo the next time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the late afternoon, we had a\u00a0FaceTime\u00a0chat with some of our ex-Waitrose<\/em> friends. We tend to chat about once a\u00a0week, normally on a Tuesday, but we missed last night for a variety of reasons. Our friend’s\u00a0daughter had just moved house and it all seemed to have been a somewhat nightmarish experience (some items damaged, demanding payment at overtime rates after a certain time and so on) Moving house can be\u00a0stressful at the best of times, so we sympathised. When we moved into our\u00a0present house, the removal men got to the house before we did, got let in by the cleaner who we had\u00a0inherited and proceeded to deposit\u00a0boxes willy nilly all over the place – even though we\u00a0had\u00a0got them labelled, it still takes the actual owners to know what goes where. I seem to\u00a0remember the day after we\u00a0moved in, we went to a hardware store to acquire a trolley so that we could move boxes (mainly of books!) to their intended resting place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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