Good evening the Kitchen and all the lovelies within.
Had a very productive day, but tiring. Wonder why vacuuming and then steam mopping all the floors takes such an effort. Looks lovely and smells lovely but with those dogs, a return bout will come around far too quickly.
Rather a strange experience to relate. I opened a fresh tin of Purina Gold mousse cat food for my cats the other evening. They made a huge fuss for food just before my bedtime and then didn't eat it all. So, I spooned the food they left into a fresh dish to cover it for the morning and to enable me to put the dishes in the dishwasher. As I picked up the food in one dish with a fork, it broke up and I saw that inside the meat and untouched (thankfully) were two tablets/pills/drugs? - one whole and the other a bit battered!!
I stood for quite a while staring at the dish. I didn't look up towards the ceiling but may as well have done. Where on earth could these have come from? What are they? How could something like that come out of a new tin? Etc., etc.,
This was Saturday night. I decided to fill in their very detailed on-line form on Sunday, to register my problem and provide details, photographs etc. As with so many online forms,, the blessed thing wouldn't send. I tried everything and eventually gave up.
This morning after 20 minutes holding and being assailed by the worst, crackling and tortured bit of classical music I had ever heard on a phone system, I hung up and decided to contact the UK. Very helpful person did confirm that I needed to contact the country where I'd bought the food. They gave me a contact number. I phoned and again, 15 minutes waiting and nothing. I then got annoyed and found a telephone number for Nestlé's head office. They actually had an English answerphone message before asking one to press the correct button. I confirmed that I would like to speak in English because the line was really bad. They put me through to someone who was very helpful but said that she was the Accounts department. I went back to reception, but on hold and then again put through to the Accounts department.
So........Accounts department (possibly bored with a slightly fractious Englishwoman banging on about their duty of care towards my cats) gave me the Nestlé email address.
Big mistake, maybe! I fired off the whole lot, including photos and a harsh resumé of their company's seeming lack of interest in any contact with the outside world. By the end of the day, we had a response in very polite English and then when I arranged to speak tomorrow, as requested, I was contacted again - after 6.30pm (possibly from someone working from home) with the promise that they would try to get to the bottom of what happened and speak tomorrow! Yaaay!
So, hope that your mornings were a lot more fun than mine today. The afternoon was spent in cleaning and laundry, but the morning was not the way I would ever want to spend most of a morning! Especially a Monday! Tomorrow, hopefully, may go more to plan. I have tea and cake on offer from a wonderful Swiss friend who has just arrived in the village, and early tomorrow I can catch up here with my lovely hairdresser who will be guaranteed to keep me in fits of laughter AND give me a good haircut into the bargain. She's the one who coughs a lot behind her mask to clear a decent space in the supermarket when people get on her nerves! She is always upbeat and fun. Just as long as she has coffee and 'something English' to snack on - she's in heaven. She says! So, ginger biscuits I think.
Love your plant, Muse. (By the way my Clematis Tie Dye has Wilt! Another reason for a bad mood today! ) I've said before how much I love Imogen's hair, Jax. Fabulous. I expect lots of us have a garage just ready for your attention, SueD !! I'll let you have my address, just in case you feel the urge for another clearout.......shall I ?
Nighty night everyone, sleep well and keep well!
Hugs to all from French France x
