They’ve been resurfacing the road outside my house this week – and to say it needed it is an understatement, but that’s another story – during which time the road has been closed. Despite there being tons of stone and other stuff left in the area up the road next to our ‘poubelles’ (waste bins), nobody turned up to do any work today. But it appears that the ‘road closed’ sign may have been left up.<\/p>\n
The postman got through with his little yellow Peugeot van bringing me one of two parcels that I was expecting today, so that was a good start. The delivery was a replacement for one that I’d received a week or more ago from Germany consisting of ten 40 x 30 cm picture frames that I’d returned because although I’d ordered ones with glass fronts, the supplier had sent ones with plastic, that I detest.<\/p>\n
I told the supplier that if they gave me a rebate of 40\u20ac I’d keep the order as I knew I could buy ten sheets of glass for 4,30\u20ac. This would still leave me 3\u20ac out of pocket but I thought it was a fair enough offer. However, they’d only offered 30\u20ac, so back they all went. So I was looking forward to getting the replacements today but as soon as I opened the first one – you can guess where this is going – I found that all of the replacements also had plastic fronts. I’ve now asked for a full refund.<\/p>\n
Next I had a phone call. It was the driver bringing the second delivery I was expecting telling me that she couldn’t get to my house because the road was closed. Despite my telling her that she could ignore the sign because she could easily get to my house (she was only 600 metres away) she refused to do so and said that she had to drop my order off at a local ‘point de relais’ (delivery point). Later I received an email telling me that I could pick up my delivery in 24 hours time from the post office in Rouffignac.<\/p>\n
Lastly, I was expecting the truck to arrive today to pick up my electric bike and take it back to Poland. Yes, you’ve guessed it, as I type this its already gone 6.00 pm and no truck has arrived. I don’t know if that was because the driver also came across the ‘road closed’ sign but I doubt it because I received no phone call telling me what was happening. But in any case. it was the perfect end to an utterly disastrous and wasted day \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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