Day 1003 Britberk

Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 53

9th May 2020

The front door bell rang, “who’s that?” We both said as we sat in bed checking our phones.

I threw off the bedclothes, struggled into some clothes, putting on a hat to cover my shark fin hair, and rushed to the door.

It was Don, a family friend and confirmed flounder of the quarantine rules, he had brought round an old dining table that had come from the dumpster at his Locksmith company.

He had mentioned it to Kelli a day or so ago, and we had plans to pick it up ourselves, but he beat us to it.

I helped move it out of his trailer and leant it against our wall.

It wasn’t in bad condition, and with a few hours work could look good.

We had the buyers of the pair of dressers coming to collect at around 1.00pm. I finished waxing the top when I noticed there was a drawer runner missing from the top position.

I flew into panic mode. I had 30 minutes to make and fit it.

Scratching around for bits of suitable wood, I worked furiously to fashion something that would work. Miraculously everything went well, and it worked first time, that does not happen often.

I rubbed a generous amount of wax into the runners to make the dressers move smoothly, a feature that come up often as an inquiry.

Fortunately they loved them, and loaded them on to their truck, and drove off back to Grand Haven.

I had been having trouble tracking down a subscription to BritBox that I had cancelled a long time ago, but I noticed that a payment was still coming out of my account.

I had contacted BritBox US and they noted that my account had been cancelled, they suggested I contact Amazon in case I had set it up with them.

I contacted Amazon, they couldn’t find any record of a subscription either, so I was stuck.

Whilst contemplating my dilemma, I tried to access my BritBox account using another email address that I had, and to my amazement it worked.

This must have been the one I set up last November, that I couldn’t get to work properly.

So now I knew, it was all my fault.

I composed an email and sent it off to BritBox explaining the situation, and requesting the subscription to be cancelled.

In the meantime, I was playing around on our television, when I thought about trying to get BritBox to work on it. With the aid of my wife who gave useful advice we managed to get it to work, so we were able to watch some British TV shows at last.

“Wouldn’t it be funny if they read my email, and cancelled my account” I mused.

Well that’s precisely what happened. This morning I received a reply saying that they had cancelled it.

“ Well you need to reinstate it again, after all the trouble we had getting it to work” said Kelli.

Fortunately in the email was an option to reinstate everything, probably know as the “Dick head” option, Yep! I know what that means.