Somewhat of a surprise………..

This is a good news and bad news post, so I’ll get the bad out of the way first.
Hubby’s INR is still out of range, so he will be back for another blood test on New Year’s Eve. Let us hope that will see the necessary reduction so that we can start 2021 on something positive.
Good news though was shopping.
Colour me surprised, if not blushing at my previously pessimism, but it was not bad……. not bad at all actually.

I parked literally right outside the door, there were no queues, or restriction in numbers.
Inside was a different matter, surreal, and a little unsettling as many people seemed to be in a trance. They dithered as they ambled, blocking access to shelves, selecting something, holding it and looking at other items, then putting held item in trolley but not moving on.  It was like everyone was in slow motion or set in custard.

The shelves were pretty well stocked, but actually getting close enough to pick something up was trying…………. one woman lost it with me as I picked up a pack of 6 eggs. I was nowhere near her as she was moving right, so I went behind her and she turned on me!
‘Is there a problem?’ I asked from behind my mask.
‘I wanted eggs!’ she said loudly. The fact that she was standing in front of an entire rack of different sized packs of eggs is purely coincidental.
I added them to our basket and moved on. Hubby was getting angrier by the minute, so we split up and I got some bits and pieces plus a few things for our neighbour.

I’ve treated myself to a bottle of poor man’s Baileys. It was less than £4 and attracts a total of 4 syns for a 25ml measure (5½ for 35ml). I will have to allow for it in my 15 syn allowance. Hubby also picked up a rather nice gammon joint which was just the right size for us. We’ll cook it in the pressure cooker on Christmas Eve.
We didn’t have to wait long in the self checkout line, and as we ran it across the scanner, it didn’t have a bar code, so we had to call for an assistant. She processed it as a 99 miscellaneous item, said all was OK and moved on to the next person. I checked my till receipt in case I’d misread it at the time, but it had come up as 99p! I’m not complaining, especially as the bacon rashers I bought last week have gone up from £1.25 to £1.49, so I didn’t buy any, and they’d been 99p at the end of November!

Apart from the Dreamland People, it was OK as we got everything on our list plus a couple of other things to nibble, so that’s it now as far as shopping is concerned.
If we haven’t got it, we can’t have it. With the recent turn of events and possibility of out of towners coming to their holiday homes here, we will be avoiding town and shops as much as possible. Saying that, we shall still have our walks, keeping socially distant from any friends we might meet, but getting out of the way of people we don’t know.
We WILL have a merry Christmas and I don’t intend to drink the entire ‘Baileys’ to do so!

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