The last cheese delivery?

A couple of weeks or so ago, at reference 1, I pondered about going to get the next lot of cheese myself, rather than having it delivered. In the end I chickened out, with the next lot being delivered yesterday. But I think I really will go to get the next lot myself. The shops are open, the streets and trains are said to be quiet: it might be as good as it is going to get. Furthermore, getting the delivery day right is very hit and miss, what with the vagaries of my consumption of cheese and the vagaries of their implementation of my preferred delivery date. Going shopping is more reliable, if more expensive when incidental expenses are taken into account - although these last might be much reduced by social distancing.

On what might really be the last occasion, my two 500g pieces of Lincolnshire Poacher weighed in at just about 2lbs 8oz, which seemed a fair interpretation.

The box contained the woolly padding and the freezer bag snapped above, but not the air cushion bags. Woolly padding and its plastic bags now snipped up and in the compost bucket, awaiting transport to the bottom of the garden. Freezer bag draining before going into the green dustbin. A freezer bag which can be obtained from reference 3 for not very many pennies at all, a lot less than I had thought. And according to its web site, a freezer bag which can also be used as a hot water bottle. But we already have several, as yet unused, so this one had to go.

Perched on a old world poker, borrowed from the tub of various sticks used for gardening purposes. A reasonably complicated poker, which is mostly cylindrical but with the poking end being square in section and with the holding end being a steel ball, perhaps an inch in diameter. Very slightly bent. Well suited for its present duty. No idea where it came from.

PS: following the experiment with the air bag we got last time, I thought to hang the very similar air bags which came with our chocolates from Fortnum's out on the garage fascia, where they get the full blast of the afternoon sun. No shrivelling yet, after several days now, not even much deflating.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/07/cheese-supplies.html.

Reference 2: https://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://thergis.com/.