Its been a busy old day today with deliveries. First was some more “happy mail”, all the way from Germany. Postmarked 8th December, it's now early March so it was a long time coming. Christmas wishes from Judy, and she had enclosed a cute little Christmas Stocking, with the hope that we will find a place in the caravan to hang it over Christmas. I’ll sure we will, thanks so much Judy.
Merry Christmas wishes from Germany
Our other delivery was a new fridge. While we were away on our three week trip, our fridge died and we arrived back home to find a stinking mess, particularly in the top freezer compartment. Frozen berries, home cooked meals in containers, and some salmon filets, they all got chucked out, together with whatever had been left behind in the fridge, mainly sauces, pickles, cheese and butter. The smell was awful, and we had to set to and give the fridge a good wash out with hot soapy water.
Then came the job of finding a replacement fridge, not at all easy these days. There was stock on the wharves, on ships in transit, but not so in the stores themselves. Robin managed to talk the local manager into selling us one “off the floor” as we were desperate. But we still had to wait 10 days till it could be delivered.
The best option for us was to move the caravan into the car park in front of our home, (it is usually in the motorhome park around a corner or two) plug it into power and use the caravan fridge.
Before each meal we loaded up the chilly bag with whatever was required, and then did the return trip to replace the items back in the caravan fridge. At least it wasn’t too far to walk.
Then finally today, two nice young men delivered our new fridge, and took away the dead one – we had worked out that it was about 12 years old. And the new one has a sign saying “10 Year Warranty” so appliances are not really built to last these days, are they.
New fridge delivered at last
I also had time today to do a quick sewing job for Robin. He had recently purchased two new pairs of shorts, one pair had belt loops attached and the other hadn't. “I can add some for you”, I declared. So I cut and stitched some navy drill fabric into lengths, checked the other pair of shorts for placement, and got stitching. Just about ran out of navy thread though, but the job got done, and Robin is very thankful.
Making belt loops
7 comments:
we came home to that once too - and of course fish was in the freezer! it was awful - we too got rid of all and had to get a new one as the model we had was no longer fixable - luckily at that time we got it the next day. You certainly had a long wait - lucky you had a place to park the camper.
Such a sweet little stocking that you received . It will look so nice in your caravan come Christmas time. So glad that your fridge is installed; you are right they do not make appliances like they used too. Have a lovely week
What a horrible mess to deal with after a holiday! I’m glad Robin was able to convince the manager to sell a store model. I imagine appliances and repair parts are difficult to obtain everywhere since the pandemic hit.
Ooohhh! What a nasty 🤢 thing to come home too. Very smelly......
Lucky you had the fridge in the caravan you could use... nice to have the new one...
Cute wee stocking and mail is very slow since COVID....
I am so glad that you got your fridge. That was a great deal of traveling between places to move food.
God bless.
New fridges are not something we plan to buy. It always seems to be a rushed job when something goes wrong. Glad you managed to get it sorted.
What a cute stocking. At least it arrived early for 2021 Christmas.
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