Here, There, Everywhere!

Cor, it's been a non-stop day for me today, with plenty of stuff to do that gets me out of the house and scooting about various parts of Oxford.

First things first and I do a bit of housework and put some washing on. It's the first warmish dry day we've had in a long while and so it would seem to be a bit of a shame to let the day go to waste in terms of abusing it to dry the washing on the line.

Whilst the machine finishes it's cycle I hop on to messenger where I have a bit of chat to my sister. I mentioned to her that I was nipping into town to pick up a present for a friend of mine who gave birth to a lovely 7lb baby girl called Lily Gabriella earlier in the week (Wednesday). She mentioned to me that she'd see a really cute Steiff teddy bear on QVC. I think that's a cool idea, but unfortunately I need the gift for the weekend and QVC's quickest delivery seems to be 3 working days - not good enough.

I'm not put off by the idea of getting a Steiff however and find a wonderfully helpful shop call Ashby Bears who had what I wanted and did next day delivery as well. Man, how would I cope without the internet for last minute shopping!

By this time the washing is done, and I can put it out on the line. I grab a bit of lunch and then head off to the post office to pick up yet another ebay delivery that we'd missed earlier in the week - more train carriages I've no doubt, then swing around to the south of Oxford to pick up some Mothercare vouchers for my friend (handy idea I thought). I then go into Oxford itself and pick up a variety of cards (from birthdays to births to mothersday!). Wrapping paper is on the list too so I get some of that and of course a trip to Ben's Cookies was inevitably in order too!

Finally then after all of that is done I make it back home pretty much unscathed, and all that is left for me to do for the rest of the day (not that there is much left of it) is to wind Phil up about his much wanted train carriages by telling him that they arrive horrifyingly damaged and broken and wouldn't be any good for anything other than scrap hehehe :) I'm evil!

Posted by Abi on the March 23, 2006 9:48 PM