All right, stop. Collaborate and listen.

[venta]

Today is not going well. I opened the freezer to begin making my bento this morning.... gosh. What a lot of ice. "Defrost freezer" moved from the hazy middle distance of something I forget to think about to "probably next weekend".

I fought a section of freezer open... oh. This drawer is full of slush puppy. And the things in it are rather... bendy for frozen goods. "Defrost freezer" upped to "something I should probably do tonight".

And then I discovered I couldn't close the door. Oh. Guess I'll defrost the freezer now, then. At 7.30. While in my fluffy grey dressing gown. Chris C (plus Batman dressing gown) came to help.

Sadly, I've thrown all the food away. Even the things that still appeared frozen solid, because I've no way of knowing if they've been consistently frozen. A few things (bread, apple purree, red cabbage) I'll risk. Prawns and chicken stir-fry mix, not so much.

The freezer is, of course, one of those alleged no-need-to-defrost affairs, so doesn't have useful features like a built-in spout to funnel the drips. There has been a lot of mopping.

ChrisC has heroically taken the morning off to keep the floods at bay. I am now heading immeasurably slowly to work, as all forms of transport out of Ealing appear to be stuffed.

Comments

[erming.livejournal.com]

Did someone leave the door open on the transport out of Ealing?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was dreadful, had to chisel the commuters off with a knife...

[lnr]

Do-do-do do do do doo (and then thankfully the Under Pressure earworm wins).

A nice excuse to buy icecream!

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo.

And you make a good point about the ice cream. I mean, it's inefficient to run the freezer empty!

[lnr]

Exactly

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Argh

I sympathise

A few months ago my freezer decided it no longer wished to be a freezer and instead wished to be an iceberg with a feature lake. Whilst I respect the lifestyle choices of my domestic appliances I felt that this was straying too far from the job description and now have a new freezer.. but not till I'd stayed up till 4AM cooking everything that could be cooked and either eaten or refrozen as a new dish... and mopping up the lake which, luckily enough, was in the garage rather than the house.