“So this is Christmas,” they sang, and today they’re right. Not the easiest of run-ups at Chez Tosh, with more trivial problems including the mighty Tesco delivering a Christmas shop a quarter of which was, by the 25th, beyond its sell-by date.
I mean, I’m sure they do their best, but they might guess that when you order enough sprouts to send one of us to the moon, there’s only one day they’re going to be deployed. Oh – and maybe they could try a little harder not to bash the bloody bags around so much they knock the top off the washing up liquid. It’s not dirty dishes I object to; more the damned Turkey a la Lemon Zest.
Meanwhile, I want to leave you with the touching words of the sage of the King’s Road, Jose Mourinho. “Family is more important than football, so don’t care about whether we are first, second or third,” he said this week. “Be worried about the people you love, the world, peace and all these things.”
Lovely words, even if I strongly suspect the wily chap is just attempting to make sure Alex and Arsene have too much Merlot and turkey today. Speaking of which…
We got ours through Waitrose, by collecting instead of delivery, as all the delivery slots up until Christmas were booked before December. The vegetables all went off before the day, and they didn’t have any turkey.
Fortunately, because we collected, we were in the store already, so we could do an extra run around to grab replacements. Didn’t really make it any easier than just going and doing the shopping ourselves, though.
Whereas we in the boondocks walked into a wee shop and carted the turkey in our arms (like a fat baby) with the veg dangling from a spare digit – and it was magic, by the way!
Hope your bird was none the worse in the end …..
I can relate to the experience of bad delivery from Tesco. I once ordered a couple of six packs of Cola from them, and when they arrived most of them fell out of their packaging and one also managed to open itself and make everything else sticky.
Not a great experience.
Ocado from Waitrose seems much better and actually don’t mix food products with household chemicals.
cheers
Leslie