And rained...

Despite being Mothers Day, it's still raining in Wales. And I ain't talking splishes and splashes here and there, I'm talking onslaught of equatorial monster water bombs lashing down in sheets of tsunami proportions!

Honest, there is all this talk of drought here in the UK (and in fact we're gonna have a hosepipe ban from 1st April) but if they just piped all excess water from Wales, they'd have enough water to keep the South East going and then some... I know I miss Wales, but I certainly don't miss the weather!

Anyway, since it's Mothers Day we let Mum decide what she'd like to do - and inevitably that usually involves a bit of shopping. However, since we're in the middle of nowhere that involves taking a 30 mile hike to Carmarthen, a town which actually has shops open on a Sunday. First stop is Curry's where Dad eyes up a very nice 60" HD ready plasma TV, but at £6,999 decides it's a bit pricey! We then go to Focus where my sister and future brother in law pick up some screws that they need, and then go to the Fabric Warehouse where my sister spends what feels like an eternity deciding on curtain material for her new house. I do however manage to pick up some nice cushions for the sofa's at home, pay for them and make it out of the shop in under 10 minutes leaving the others to suffer my sisters pinickity curtain sense.

After that we then go to Allied Carpets where my parents get some prices for wooden flooring (they are buying a new house, but as ever they can't possibly leave it as it is even though they'll only be living in it for a year) and I demonstrate some strange behaviour by going around stroking the various carpet samples they have on display. Typically the one I like the feel of the most was 35 pound a square metre and that was with 50% knocked off the price :)

Our last port of call was B&Q where we looked at bathroom suites and the like. This was vaguely interesting to me because after we've done the double glazing back home the next thing on the list is the bathroom. And, judging from the amount of time it takes Phil and I to decide to do something and actually implement it (roughly 11 months) I figure it wouldn't hurt to get ahead of the game! We get a nice greasy burger too whilst were there and then head back to my parents house.

Again, the afternoon is spend doing very little of anything, though I do watch Keeping Mum which was quite amusing for Sunday viewing, and help my sister prepare dinner which we are cooking for all the family. By the time we've eaten it's pretty late so I finish the evening off having a good old chat with my parents about all sorts of stuff, like remodelling houses, business ideas, retirement and emigration.

A good day then, even if it is still raining.

Posted by Abi on the March 26, 2006 10:58 PM