ALL MIXED UP

-Just what we wanted

It was with interest that I read my good friend Jill Taylor's blog today. She had been waiting for a few days on the delivery of a new sewing machine. It came later than she was promised but when it arrived she was so pleased with it and sparked it into use straight away. Similarly I was waiting too, for a new mixer for The Cheats to replace the old one which sounds as if it is on it's last legs. We ordered it last Thursday and a Friday delivery was promised. So it was with relief that I opened the door to my neighbour Gary who announced he had taken in a delivery for me.
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As soon as I saw Gary coming towards me with a parcel the size of a DVD player I knew something was wrong and all my carefully laid plans to have it delivered on a day when I don't work were as nothing. I should have known better. Now the correct mixer is the size of a small suitcase and I knew what I had ordered was right so what was this? I freed it from it's bubble wrap. The box it was in turned out to be twice the size of this mixer. Here...take a look at it resting on my coservatory sofa.

-A phone call to the suppliers gear4music (be warned) followed. Of course their Customer Service department was 5p a minute but they rekoned without one of my favourite websites http://www.saynoto0870.com/ and I was soon being told that 'the picker does not know much about mixers'. I resisited the temptation to suggest maybe the 'picker' to stick to removing the contents of his nose. Anyway, they collected the rogue item and assured me the new one would be delivered on Monday, a day when I would not be there. Now that's another problem then.