Out and about, at last!

January 9, 2010 9:09 PM

Ahhh, it feels like the whole world is a new discovery today as Phil and I venture out of the house to run a few errands here and there that need to be done and judging from the noise of the main road not far from our house it sounds like the road might be good enough to drive on so we give it a go.

We head towards the supermarket as I need to put some fuel in my car as it's been running on fumes for a good few weeks now and we thought it might be a good time to pick up some more pop as Phil had drunk the Christmas supplies and we were down to tonic water and russcian. The plan on shopping however quickly changed when we got to the roundabout before the supermarket and saw that the queue to get in was tailing back a ridiculous amount so we settled on getting just the fuel instead rather than battling with 50000 other people over some loaves of stale bread and 2 broken eggs (however, see picture, curtosy of Cara and you'll see we might have lucked on the bread in any event!).

After we refuelled we then decided to try Waitrose instead, but even though they had considerably less people there the idiots that were creeping around the car park made it impossible to park up so Phil lost the plot and we went home.

Some lunch ensued, toasted sandwiches, very nice, and then when Phil decided to have a nap I headed back out to Waitrose to pick up the few things we did want (note I say want, not need, we are stocked up here for a good 2 months due to my usual unabashed grocery shopping techniques). There was only about 3 people in the supermarket and I got us Pop and a few treats, like the enchilada meal they do which wipes the board with Old El "I'll passo" thanks and it seems that their delivery trucks are running to schedule as one arrived just as I was leaving. Good stuff, Waitrose is definitely winning the war on being my supermarket of choice.

Back home and I nip next door to see that they're all doing ok, which they are, and after an nice chat I go home and cook dinner.

Not much on the box, so Phil spends some time playing fable 2 on our "a bit flaky" xbox and I do some more knitting.

Hot bath and bed me thinks tonight.