{"id":7510,"date":"2022-12-18T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:09:33","slug":"home-f-f-f-flippin-f-f-f-freezin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7510","title":{"rendered":"DAYS iN: Home – F-F-F-flippin\u2019 F-F-F-freezin\u2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I put all this lot on upon entering<\/em> our home!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We just got back home, from childminding duties at my sister\u2019s. As we occasionally do, we stayed a second night. I was exhausted after an evening shift delivering for Amazon, and then sharing a bottle of wine with Teresa and Hannah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon were taking the piss royally yesterday, on two fronts: first I arrived a few minutes late (2-3, or thereabouts) for a midday shift. The crappy Flex app then proceed to load so slowly that by the time it was up and running I\u2019d \u2018missed your [my!] slot\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I returned later the same day, and did an evening sesh. I try not to do these, on account of it being harder and more stressful in the dark of winter evenings\/nights. And herein was the second Amazon piss-take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually this was a double-barrelled piss fest: first I had an order \u2018to be delivered no later than 4pm\u2019. Yet it was the second delivery of about eight or so, and I didn\u2019t start collecting<\/em> the items, never mind delivering them, until 4pm, when my shift officially commenced<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told the recipient that I\u2019d have bent the laws of physics to deliver to him by 4pm, if it lay within my powers. And, if he was unhappy – fortunately he was a jovial and understanding chap, and was absolutely fine – please take it up with Amazon, and don\u2019t blame me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real piss take the second, was the sheer distances they had me travelling. I started in Cambourne, then went to Royston, then Potton, then Sandy, then home. I reckon that the fuel costs of this run will prob\u2019 have accounted for half my earnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lobster, a very hirsute, handsome and charming chap!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But my main prompt for this post was returning to our frigidarium<\/em> home. Our car was plenty warm en-route home. With two of us in the the confines of a little MX5, plus the car heating, we were very cosy. The house was 8\u00b0C, according to our wall mounted central-heating doodad (thermostat\/controller?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pic atop this post is how I got myself up to brave a trip to our littlest room! Which used to be an outside privy, when the house was built. And today feels like it still is! I was worried my bowels would refuse to open, so damn chilly was it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m now enjoying that most plebeian of pleasures, a pot noodle. Pornography for the palette, granted. But warm and flavoursome. It maketh me happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We just got back home, from childminding duties at my sister\u2019s. As we occasionally do, we stayed a second night. I was exhausted after an evening shift delivering for Amazon, and then sharing a bottle of wine with Teresa and Hannah. Amazon were taking the piss royally yesterday, on two fronts: first I arrived a … <\/p>\n

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