This morning I am upstairs, sitting at my desk in my study, continuing my listing of the serials in MANDY destined for BUNTY AND HER SISTERS, when an Amazon employee turns up with a parcel, which contains Christmas presents, three books for Aurora and a boxed game for Kelsey. Tomorrow I will be parcelling them up separately, and posting them to Maria, who will put them away until Christmas Eve. However, the girls will be very lucky indeed to be getting these presents because I didn't hear the bell or any knocking on the front door when the delivery arrived. I only became aware of the matter when I popped down to make a cup of coffee, and while the kettle was boiling I went into the porch to see if the postman had been. He hadn't, but there was a card left by an Amazon employee stating that they had left the parcel in the safe place you told us about. Actually I have never suggested any safe place to anyone, and if I had, it would not have been where they actually put it. Normally, under similar circumstances the Amazon or Parcelforce employee will push it under the front of my car if it's there, a position where it will not be visible from the pavement or the road. On other occasions they might go through the gate into the side garden, and place it out of sight between any two of the bins.
You've already guessed what this employee did, haven't you? That's because you are more intelligent than the Amazon employee. It couldn't possibly be otherwise. Yes, you're right, bang on the money. The safe place that this Amazon employee chose was.............yes, the brown bin.
