Every other Tuesday we get a delivery of vegetables from Ekolådan. When we got home today, there were no vegetables, and the empty box that we’d left outside for the delivery van to pick up was still there, as empty as it was in the morning.

I try empty the fridge of fresh vegetables ahead of the delivery as much as possible, so that I can use the veggies from the box when they are at their freshest and finest. When the box did not turn up, that plan failed. But luckily “empty” doesn’t mean “totally empty” – we still had some carrots and onions and a few other long-lasting veggies at home, and there are of course also canned and frozen vegetables to fall back on.

Finally the box turned up just as I was in the middle of cooking dinner. Our ordinary driver had fallen ill and the temp driver was not at all familiar with the route, which is why he arrived so late.