Today was more like ‘normal’ whatever that is.
In the morning we de-iced the car and drove to Tesco to get some food to put in the new freezer. Oops, I forgot to tell you about the new acquisition. Last Tuesday Scamp sat me down and together we went through all the different combinations of under-counter freezers. Although we have a fairly big fridge-freezer, it doesn’t hold as much as we’d hoped, so we’d each of us mumbled about needing more storage. That problem was solved today. We ordered a medium priced under-counter freezer from John Lewis. Everything done, sight unseen, online. It was delivered yesterday, Friday. It’s so hard to keep track of days, what with Christmas, New Year, Twelfth Night and stuff.
The freezer had to sit for four hours for the refrigerant to settle in the complex of pipes, then it had to be plugged in and told to freeze, as an afterthought, we could just have left it outside, it was plenty cold there!
Today Scamp gave it some fish, prawns and ice cream to work its subzero magic on them. It’s very quiet and fits in perfectly. Not a snore or a grunt from it at all. I think I have been allocated the bottom drawer for my meat and coffee beans.
I went for a walk in the afternoon. It was really cold, just above zero, but not by much. PoD was a Knapweed plant just about ready to release its seeds to the four winds. Also if you have good eyesight, you might catch a glimpse of the skin (or Shuck) of a damsel fly up close to the head of the main flower.
Dinner tonight was Fish Fingers, Egg and Spaghetti. A firm favourite at this time of year.
We have no plans for tomorrow.