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Just as I sat down to blog, a text arrived from ASDA. My delivery is 9 stops away and will be here at 8.58. They have no onions. They are sending ordinary fish fingers rather than Omega 3 enriched fish fingers. I never realised, when I was a young boy, that there would be such things as fish fingers that prevented dementia. If I’m realistic, I still don’t. The correct adult helping of fish fingers is four, according to the internet. Four fish fingers, to me, struggles to look like a meal. Even five, as in the picture, leaves a lot of empty space on a plate.

Paprika Potatoes, Fish Fingers and Mushy Peas – Gourmet Fodder

They are sending filtered milk instead of ordinary milk. It appears to be 25p cheaper until you check the quantity – I am only getting half as much so am basically paying twice the price. They will be getting that back. They will also be getting the carrots back – they are sending a kilo of carrots instead of the swede I ordered. I already have a kilo of carrots coming. Apart from the fact that swedes and carrots are different things, who needs two kilos of carrots? I once told a family member that I thought some of the substitutions were worked out by idiots. They told me that they were actually worked out by algorithms. It’s the algorithms that are worked out by idiots.

The driver apologised for being late but he had had to sort out a problem enroute. He called at an address and found nobody in. When he rang the number on the account they told him they had moved and would like him to go two miles away and drop the groceries at a different6 address. He couldn’t do that because it was not the address on the account and it would have set his timings out. So he rang the office for advice, and they weren’t answering the phone. Eventually he had to ring and tell the people he couldn’t deliver. He was a little upset that someone would be without groceries tonight. Me, I’d just have been annoyed that someone had messed me around, but ASDA delivery drivers, to be fair to them, really do care about their customers.

Vegetables – Carsington Water

Took Julia to work. Went to see friends at local jewellers. Got home, found that the delivery company dpd had been, left a card and gone. They could have left the parcel in the porch. They could have left it with a neighbour. But they didn’t. They did, however, leave a card. I used the code on the card to track the parcel and found out that they had tried but failed to deliver. I didn’t actually need a website to tell me that as all the evidence was pointing that way . . .

Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest

I also found they had taken a picture of my front door. This was also useless as I already know what my front door looks like. If they need to prove that they have been here, the fact that I have the card will do that.

dpd are very big on being green these days. They even asl me to recycle the card. They tell me that allowing them to use my local pick up point will allow them to cut CO2 emissions by 63%. MY local drop-off point is the Post Office – 0.2 miles away. I don’t see how dropping it within that distance helps reduce emissions. Due to my difficulty walking I will use the car to pick it up anyway. It will, of course, reduce the emissions from a second journey to deliver, but so would leaving it in the porch or with a neighbour.

Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest

I am currently on live chat with them. The first contact swiftly shoved me on to someone else – I suspect they were a robot. I am now in a queue and am currently Number 7. This has gone from 20 to 7 in two minutes so isn’t bad . . .

Another two minutes and I engaged in live chat with someone helpful and we got it all changed. For once everything went well, though not as well as if the delivery man had used his head.

The pictures of Sherwood Forest are by request. They are, unfortunately, not great photos, but it was a dull evening for a lot of the shots. I will look for some better ones.

Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest

As an aside, I have often found dpd drivers to be inconsiderate on the road, but as they delivered 1.9 billion parcels worldwide in 2020, it might just be that there a lot of them.