Blooming typical! Ready to leave Sandiacre this morning, check the stoppages on C&RT website and find to our dismay that the Upper Trent is in flood! It's one of the downsides to having a mooring on the Erewash canal as going onto the Trent is the only way to get to the River Soar or the T&M. And to make matters worse the weather had deteriorated even more so quite thankful in a way not to have to travel in the rain and wind. But we do have a problem if we can't get away by Sunday. We need to be in Warwick by the 21st March. Ian has estimated that doing 6 hours a day going via the Soar and then onto the GU Leicester line will take us roughly 10 days. It's out of the question to go T&M way as a stoppage at Swarkstone lock, which doesn't finish until the 15th, stops us from going on that route. Getting away any later doesn't bear thinking about as long days will have to be put in, something we haven't done since the hiring days. Hey ho, as there is nothing we can do about the outcome all we can do is pray!
Having decorated FS's interior and changed the carpet in the bedroom we decided to continue the makeover by getting rid of the large old leather recliner chairs and buying two smaller fabric recliners from Dunelm. Wanting to protect the arms we purchased 4 antimacassars all in a light grey. The supplier was from China and as we have purchased from China before we didn't expect any problems. But.....unpacking the parcel on arrival what should we find?? Two sets of covers both a different colour!
Many an email sent in complaint, one returned by the supplier to say surely we can live with it.....Excuse me!!! No, we cant!!!! So a new set will be sent to our daughters but not for 10 days. Seems we got to live with these now, until we get back in June.
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