I've jut gone to get some sausages out of the small freezer for Danny at lunchtime, to find everything floating around in blackberry juice - the entire contents will have to be chucked as it would appear that the heating engineer unplugged it for some reason on Wednesday and never replugged it. (The other plug is for the washing machine so I don't now what he thought he was unplugging!) About £40 worth of contents (including my planned tea tonight) gone west. I have just written a sharp email to them . . . Now I need to remove contents, photograph for them, and chuck out later when it isn't raining sideways and being Storm Hermione!
Oh no, I hope they compensate you altho that still means no tea for you and you have to clear up the mess.
ReplyDeleteTime will tell. I cleaned it all up - managed to lift out the tray that was swimming in juice (blackberries and those huge juicy sloes I'd been saving for Gin).
DeleteThey had better! Or they can sing for their bill! I have another freezer (as in big larder fridge/freezer) so will dig something out from that. Or I'll make up a pasta sauce to go with some frozen tortelloni. I'll live!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like very bad luck and a rather sloppy heating engineer if it was him and he failed to go back over his tracks and turn the plugs back on. Very annoying. I don't know much about frozen food or freezers but could you not salvage your tea as it now fully defrosted waiting to be eaten? How did blackberry juice get all over everything?
ReplyDeleteThis had been totally defrosted since Wednesday and a lot of it was fishy/prawns etc. The blackberry/sloe juice just leaked out through the packaging.
DeleteWell, that is a pain. Dad used to do it all the time out in the garage. but it's a different thing when you do it yourself to having a workman coming in and doing it isn't it? Fingers crossed they will refund you.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know why he saw the need to unplug anything. I am very aware of it as my old freezer died last year, so this is a replacement. A plug had been pulled out then but it turned out it was for the washing machine (I think Emma did that for some reason). So I am careful about plugs.
DeleteOh my gosh!!! That's horrible! I will be interested to see how they respond to this. What a loss.
ReplyDeleteI'll let you know in due course.
DeleteYou'd think they might agree to compensation rather than have a bad mark against them. Still, what an aggravating and sticky mess to deal with!
ReplyDeleteWell, I left it all in a bag in the yard - probably find it all over the place this morning as a fox came visiting . . .
DeleteHope they pay you some compensation, although I wouldn't hold my breath! What a waste though and who can afford to lose £40 worth of groceries these days. Pouring down with rain here now, so pleased I put the bin out early. Hugs Xx
ReplyDeleteSo do I. It was raining too hard yesterday to put it all on the compost heap (where the Carrion Crows would have had breakfast, dinner and tea all at once!) I now have new lids for my rubbish bins, and it is nice not to have to put a leaking box in the back of the car to take down the lane.
DeleteOh no, yet another thing for the ‘to do’ list, remember to check plugs after workmen have been anywhere near. I went swimming at lunchtime (a spontaneous decision because the weather is so awful and I’m a better person when I’ve done something sporty for my well-being - I swam 64 fast lengths) and missed a short power cut. Just re-set all the clocks again - I’m getting good at doing that! I had a late lunch of homemade soup, rye bread and tangerine and prepped the sprouts snd peeled the potatoes for mash to go with our venison casserole from the freezer. I’m now going to take myself upstairs to spin while listening to Raymond Blanc on Private Passions. I caught the beginning in the car on my way to swimming and he was describing the way Maman Blanc makes soup which is exactly the way I make it. Sweat the veg in butter, add water and herbs from the garden and simmer until done. C’est tout! He comes from Besancon in the foothills of the Jura mountains where Comte cheese is made and Comtois horses work the fields. Nice for you to have Danny for company on this most miserable of days, but yesterday was lovely so I must not complain. I am so happy for you that you are abandoning that quilt. Fold it carefully so the worst bits don’t show, tie it up with a piece of posh ribbon and put a note on your label that it will be ideal for making into bohemian cushions - well that’s what I would do! Sarah x
ReplyDeleteWater and I do not get on. I am a fire sign, and will lay the blame on that, though a lot of it is down to my asthma, and I never liked getting my face wet. I know, big baby.
DeleteDanny and his friend weren't here so long yesterday, as Danny had broken the back of it on Saturday. The kitchen feels huge now there isn't a chest of drawers dividing it.
I rarely make soup these days as it takes me a week to eat it on my own.
It would be a waste of time to beribbon the quilt as buyers want to see its overall condition (and pick holes in it!) I shall display it as artfully as I can though and talk it up.
Ack! What a nuisance and now you have to clean up after him as well.
ReplyDeleteCleaning up didn't take too long as all the blackberry juice retained in the bottom tray.
DeleteAnother storm!? And all that work cleaning , nothing to feed Danny. So nice tho to havehim visit, maybe you two can go out for fish n chips?
ReplyDeleteWhy was there blueberry juice all over everything?
They are getting pretty tedious. I made Banana Muffins in the morning, and a fresh loaf, so Danny didn't starve.
DeleteThere must have been a leak in the packaging on the Sloes (oh they were so plump and juicy) and I think the blackberries (boughten packets x 2) have holes punched in the top covering.
Oh NO!!! That is a double blow - lost-wasted food AND a horrid clean up. I am sorry. I had a fight with my freezer a few days ago - all my own fault. I tried to stuff too much in, and got something jammed under the ice-maker chute. Then, of course, the drawer of the freezer wouldn't open. So I had to squeeze my arm painfully in the minute gap so I could pul the deep frozen Khmer wedges out One At A Time!!! then some shaking and some more swearing and I gave up. The next morning it had settled enough I could het the drawer open. If I hadn't, I'd've had to call a serviceman, and that would've cost hundreds! The call out fee alone is nearly a hundred over here!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds a battle and a half. Glad you didn't have a huge bill from having to call a serviceman. That sounds really expensive. Do you have insurance to cover it?
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