English Rose Kitchen

Yesterday was the big run to pick up the American Style Fridge Freezer from slighty-angry-woman in Brockenhust and English Rose Kitchen units lot 3 from Mr Poole in Poole. Brockenhurst is in the depths of the beautiful New Forest down near the South Coast and conveniently only about 20 miles from Poole.

I got to Tiger Tours and picked up the van around 2pm. There was a problem with the van that they were gong to give me, so they gave me another, which was not one of their own, but rather funky nontheless.

We made it down to Brockenhurst for about 5:15pm. One of the wonderful things about running around the country acquiring bits and pieces is that you get to meet so many different people and get a 20 minute snapshot of their lives. Most of the people we meet in this way are incredibly warm and friendly and it can be a very rewarding experience.

Not so on this occasion. We were greeted by slightly-angry-woman’s slightly-interesting-husband, who showed us the fridge. To be honest out of the two of them the fridge had more personality, although their eBay description of it as being in “Excellent condition” turned out to be far fetched at best. Actually it’s only a side that you won’t see when it’s installed that has some scratches and dents so we didn’t make the fuss that we probably should.

It took the three of us, with the assistance of a slightly-interesting-neighbour, to lift the beast into the cargo compartment where we wedged it at an angle to stop it rattling about. We were desparate to empty our bladders, but as soon as the fridge was in the van I think it’s fair to say that they couldn’t get rid of us fast enough.

The nicest thing about that experience was the appearance of a family of wild ponies¹ outside their house, which unfortunately had wandered off by the time I got my phone out to take a picture, so here are a couple of pictures of what they would have looked like. Believe me, they’re more interesting than the sellers of the fridge².

¹ The New Forest in Hampshire near the souh coast is famous for a) being quite beautiful and b) being home to some 3,000 wild ponies
² Interestingly, when I first posted this article, several the Google ads that it displayed were to do with marriage guidance counselling and divorce lawyers. Maybe Google really does have special insight into all of our lives!

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