Awake and up all night

My son and I have been waiting all day for a Fedex delivery. He put my address because delivery bods can never find his flat. Estimated delivery slot was 8am-1pm. At 1-30pm they revised it to 'before 8pm.' We foolishly thought they meant it. At 6-45pm they revised it to an 'endeavour to deliver tomorrow between 8am and 8pm.' 

Being stuck in all day meant I had to do the washing up. Some aspects of life can be irritating or a chore, even worse when there's no sign of rain and loads of pollen. Perhaps a cold shower will help to iron the frown from my forehead.  xxx  

 Nope, not yet Shimmy - cooker still cooking, so just nipped in to read posts and yes, the cricket's on!!!!! I'm trying to keep my temper on the down low as it flared this morning over taxigate.

I'll give you a shout when we've chowed down, hon xxx

Jolly good ... there are some marbles in that foot water, the fairy  sez you work your soles  on them and it feels good and does you good, you know, acupressure and reflexology n stuff.

Drink up ... err the tea not the foot water 

Cheers 

Ray, don't ever use DPD if you want to keep your sanity, lad.

My sanity's going down the plughole right this minute - I'd gone in the kitchen for 2 minutes while OH meddled with the remote! I didn't know at the time but do now as I've had to turn things off and aaaggghh!

Think I need a cold shower now as I'm sweating cobs! xxx

Doh! If only you'd said earlier, I am on a washing up spree, so much so, that I have swiped and washed stuff folk were still needing! Oops!

Waiting for stuff is a nightmare. Stressy would be in AnE in your situation as they can't handle it AT ALL.

Others have no idea that waiting for a call is a job that stops him doing anything else  yes he has a mobile but he can't do anything, even in the house except wait.

Did your item say it may not arrive when stated? You in for a partial refund?

Cheers

And breeeeeeth and again and centre your energy ... extend right leg ... strrrretch ... nose skywards and howwwwwwl .... lovely ... aren't we feeling better?

Cheers 

I think it's a matter of luck plus regional variations Gill. DPD is superb around here in my experience. You can track the van realtime and see how close they are and also where you stand with drop numbers. Fedex seem to just guess and their progress bar chart is unconvincing. The really bad boys around here are a company beginning with H which almost spells a health complaint. Their throwing skills are top notch, deliveries sometimes landing in the right street but wrong garden.  xxx 

I hope everything went well Julie, and that you are feeling okay. xx

I'm done. Not done in but as in eaten very fast and washed up.

I can't do the puppy exercises hon, as anything involving legs/knees is in the last century.

Did I tell you I could do the splits, bring my legs over my shoulders, full lotus etc in a past life? No, probably not but I can't do any of those now. I need to find a fountain of youth xxx

I threw my tea down my neck and got all finished off.

Just to let you know that I didn't frogmarch OH towards the M62 but had loud words with myself in the kitchen. It worked.

Ray, I can track the parcel's progress on my phone but not when the driver gets out of his van. They make up their own minds where to leave our parcels before sending me a triumphant text saying the job's done and leave a photo of the wrong house. Excellent.

Is that other delivery firm called Hernia? xxx