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Beech

It’s been just me and Toby for the last few days as Carla has been down to see our daughter and have a day out in town, that being London. The times passed quickly as I had a busy day yesterday for retired do nothing. After the quick dog walk I rushed the car to Kwik fit for the new tyres only to arrive for a 9:00 appointment I’d been SMS’ed reminded about serval times, to be told by an unenthusiastic young man that we don’t have the tyres! If you are a regular reader of my spiel I don’t have to tell you my reaction, which was not helped by “I can see Ashington has some in” and “it’s online people fault there don’t tell us anything”, the fact he is looking at my order on the screen in front of him it didn’t occur to him to check the deliveries the day before and give me a heads up. So with the unhelpful advice we might get them in at 3:00 and I’ll phone, I left to play holy hell with customer services. After 20 minutes in a queue the first person I harangue tells me I’m mobile tyres and quickly forwards me on. After another 15 minutes wait I eventually talk to somebody who is on the case, gets it sorted and compensates me by removing the fitting charge to show good will. Like my man used to say, “shy bairns get nowt” and at 3:20 walking Toby I get a call, my tyres have arrived, another walk cut short for poor Toby. Between my tyre fitting saga I managed to fit new bathroom basin taps (I did say busy) which required some of my latent fitter skills and tools to remove a seized hot water tap. I didn’t tell you I was a mechanical fitter in the Power stations for 11 years before working in IT for 30 years. Todays photo is a beech tree in Herts I took in 2019, the same beech I recently posted entitled Oscar’s hill.

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Uploaded on December 6, 2023
Taken on November 30, 2019