Stopping the flood!

I was on my own until 9am this morning and enjoyed the peace and quiet, which was a good job, as the rest of the day was not the best! Jo arrived feeling ill and coughing loudly, and she worsened as the day wore on. 

I tackled the emails and was surprised to suddenly see that the number in the inbox had climbed to over ninety... I then realised it was multiple messages saying one of our emails couldn't be delivered. I looked at the address and saw that it was an email from a company that was touting for business and had contacted us just before 10am. From then on, we were getting between five and six emails every minute! Our normal emails were being lost in the hundreds flooding in, so I spent twenty minutes on the phone with our IT department to see if they could resolve it!

As fast as I deleted them, more flooded in and I had to leave them until the early afternoon. I tried to block the address but they just kept on coming! We were also receiving repeated abusive phone calls from someone who had hidden their telephone number so it made for an interesting day!

By mid-afternoon, IT had managed to stop the flood, but I estimated we'd received over six hundred emails from this company, Apparently, when we sent an automatic reply to them, they sent one to us, resulting in a never-ending loop! Jo and Kathy had carried on receiving horrible phone calls and in the end, we stopped answering any from an unknown number.

It was heaven to escape at 4pm and go home! I pootled about and when Sophie came home we sat in the kitchen and chatted about our days. Keith hit us with the shocking news that he'd been contacted by the hospital to have his hernia operation before Christmas. His umbilical hernia, which was repaired back in 2016, has come back and it's been affecting him for about eighteen months. Last week, he'd seen the surgeon again, and now the hospital had called him! However, when he mentioned we were going to Mallorca over Christmas, they weren't able to admit him as he needs six weeks to recover before flying. He was disappointed, but we can't cancel the holiday, so hopefully, they'll contact him again in the new year.

While we were absorbing the news, I tried the second whisky of my Advent Calendar. Here are my notes from the first two:

December 1st: Quartermaster, an 11-year-old Blended Scotch Whisky at 46.4% ABV. This was delicious, sweet and honeyed with notes of raisins and dates. I loved it, but discovered it's about £75 for a bottle! I gave it 5/5.

December 2nd: Lagavulin, an 8-year-old Single Malt at 48%. As expected, it was peaty and tasted of antiseptic and put me in mind of misty mountains, wet evenings by the fire (woodsmoke) and carbolic soap. There was a sweet finish and I loved it as well. 5/5. It's about £60.

These are 30ml samples so more than enough to taste properly and mix with a little water to bring out the flavours. Tomorrow night, we're going for a meal, en famille, so I'll have to leave the 3rd whisky until later in the week!