Five excitements

This morning's e-mail from Ocado asks: "What are your Valentine's Day plans, SheWhoMust?"

But Ocado, I thought we had a date!

Valentine's Day is not a day we habitually celebrate - although this year it is a red letter day of sorts, since I have secured an Ocado delivery, and durham_rambler has booked his first vaccination at the same time.

durham_rambler received an e-mail inviting him choose between three locations for this:

the nearest (Sunderland), the most convenient for public transport (Newcastle) and the silliest (Kendal, 70 miles away and on the far side of the Pennines): he has chosen to drive to Sunderland.

Of course, the following morning the GP's surgery phoned to offer him a vaccination there; but he will stick to Plan A.

In other medical news, we have been to the dentist

for our regular, though somewhat delayed, check-up. durham_rambler will return for a filling, I get away with it for now.

While we were there...

The dentist is just along the street from the shop which stocks sourdough from the Claypath Deli, so I called in and bought a loaf. This is not quite essential shopping, but close enough, I hope.

This afternoon our blocked drain was unblocked

by a nice man in an orange jacket. The drain is at the bottom of the garden (and if you must have a blocked drain, that's where you'd want it to be) so the disruption was minimal. We had been warned that they might need a water supply, which would have been fun, but fortunately he had enough water in the van - though this made the van heavy enough that he wasn't sure he'd get it back up the hill from the back lane ...