I have had to order a new fridge-freezer, as the freezer is now starting to fail. Well, I have had my money's worth out of it (20, possibly 25, years). It was a top of the range one at the time too, but to replace like with like now, I would be coughing up £2,000. I don't think so! I've had to compromise and spend a quarter of that. I am grateful I have the savings as a buffer to pay for this, but want to try and replace it when I can. I had a little windfall from the Electricity Board, my Wayleave payment for having one of their poles on my land. But that is swallowed up (and more) straight away by having to pay £40 to the plumber and £40 to the Carpenter for repairing the little Windsor chair. Ah well, such is life. However, in clearing the top of the fridge-freezer, I found a bag with two knives in. One was Danny's, which Keith had had made for him, and the other was one I had forgotten all about, one Keith had bought at a Fair and stowed away. That will go and be offered for sale now.
Well, the Utility hasn't been this tidy for a long while . . . A purely temporary state of affairs, as what came out this afternoon will all go back, more neatly, when the new fridge-freezer is installed.
So, a busy day. I took some meat from the freezer across to Pam's who has space in hers. Some more stuff will go to my neighbour Ed, and I went out and bought a cool box - having given Tam the old one. Wrong move!
First thing I sewed up some more 16 block "big blocks", so progress there. Then when I get back I have to do family history research as Tam has someone in Yorkshire, who will do archive look ups for us.
Off to pick up the little Windsor chair now.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" that when you give something away you will need it later. I donated my son's toy sword to a charity shop when he reached his late teens. A week later we were invited to a fancy-dress medieval banquet! I could virtually hear the universe laughing at me!
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