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A few years ago, when I had the cottage in West Wales, I'd been staying there for a few days before Christmas, intending to drive home on Christmas Eve. I'd eaten all the fresh food and the cupboards were bare. I was packed and ready to leave.
Then I had a message from my neighbour in Cardiff, "Don't come back unless you have to, we're snowed in and you won't be able to drive up the hill to your house".
As I weighed up my options, stay with no food or drive and hope for a thaw before I arrive, the builder who'd been doing some work on the house arrived! Not just the builder, but he'd brought me an M&S hamper as a thank you present. There was a bottle of wine, port, cheese, biscuits, cake, chocolate and more. It was like a miracle and my mind was made up!
I stayed there for Christmas, took my hamper to my neighbours and shared their Christmas dinner and walked on the beach in the sunshine afterwards.
That's the only food hamper I've had and I still have the basket.
Then I had a message from my neighbour in Cardiff, "Don't come back unless you have to, we're snowed in and you won't be able to drive up the hill to your house".
As I weighed up my options, stay with no food or drive and hope for a thaw before I arrive, the builder who'd been doing some work on the house arrived! Not just the builder, but he'd brought me an M&S hamper as a thank you present. There was a bottle of wine, port, cheese, biscuits, cake, chocolate and more. It was like a miracle and my mind was made up!
I stayed there for Christmas, took my hamper to my neighbours and shared their Christmas dinner and walked on the beach in the sunshine afterwards.
That's the only food hamper I've had and I still have the basket.
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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