Showing posts with label Being grateful for cricket and Hendricks gin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Being grateful for cricket and Hendricks gin. Show all posts

Friday, 11 November 2016

My Personal Recipe...

For marital harmony. Buy a new television. What were you expecting? A recipe for Banana Cake? Well, I have a very nice one of those and with the way I am going bananas this evening, there will be plenty left over next week ... They have to be very ripe, you see...
And I suppose you could say the air has been very ripe this evening...  A new television.. driven by the need for better sound, as we have rued the day we bought a sound box for our previous television.
So today was the day that the new baby arrived. Big but certainly not bouncing. Several hours to install and a brief intro to the instructions which made this TV so simple to operate.
"I can't stand it when I am patronised by people who say it is SO simple!" First demi-rant from my Dearest and Best Beloved.
Netflix let us down, you see. Failed to deliver. Said (very nicely there was a fault). I check account online (find the monthly sub has gone up: more frothing...) and try playing The Crown online. No problem: we could see it on our computer.  Fuel to fire.
Ok, so we will watch something on the Virgin Tivo box. Ah, but it keeps saying we have a problem with Netflix. It is a message that will not make itself disappear despite vigorous jabbing and it is evidently impervious to bad language which is hurled like a nuclear weapon in the direction of the screen.
"I know we have  a sodding problem with Netflix!" Rising crescendo. " I will be on the phone tomorrow! This bloody doesn't work!"
I found the cricket. I clicked the button. Peace. I never thought I'd say this:
"Thank the good Lord for cricket." ( Ok, and Hendricks.Two large ones - easy on the tonic. For me, obvs.)
It could be a long weekend.
Enough to drive a saint to cake....