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I came downstairs this morning, and both of James' number balloons are deflated. I'm not pointing any fingers, but did
I got everything done that I wanted yesterday. The doctors for my injection first thing, then drive to the outlet retail park before the shops opened, so it was easy to get a parking spot. The main shops open at 10 there, so we tend to plan to get a parking spot early, then have breakfast at Subway. Which is what happened yesterday, with a tasty breakfast sandwich, and a not so tasty surprise of finding an insect at the bottom of the cup of diet coke we were sharing, making that discovery when we'd nearly finished drinking. As the cups are stored upside down, all I can think is it fell in from the pop machine while I was pouring, that or the ice machine. The lady serving was very apologetic and offered a bottle drink for free instead and also cookies. I accepted the drink, not the cookies, though didn't really expect anything.
Got the things I wanted from there, well mostly, the things my MiL liked have been sold, and James surprised me with a heavily discounted Yankee Candle advent calendar, so now I have three on the go, two candle and one chocolate.
From there it was off to check out the new Tesco, and it really is a very shiny shop. They've done a great job building on the old pit site and the landscaping is great. Including a purpose built path that snakes off the retail park to our estate and has benches all along the route.
Only negative thing was we stopped for some petrol, and the bank reserved £120 instead of the £15 we'd actually spent. I know it's a thing to prevent people driving off without paying as the pumps are card only, but it's something that's not actually used in any of the other garages in the area. From a FB post on a local group, it caught a lot of people off-guard, and I can see the frustration as the money still hasn't been released this morning.
Then in the evening we headed to the Indian Restaurant for our festive curries with Pauline, my brother and nephew. As always it was a good time with good food and company. My nephew made me laugh when we were leaving, he's 17 now and used to be very reserved, but is much more chatty now. I always hug my brother goodbye, as does Pauline and we ended up in this strange double hug as we both went in at the same time. But it worked out, and my nephew announced after he wanted a double hug too, so we had to do it again *g*
Tonight we're off to see Slava's Snowshow at the theatre. I thought it looks great, but Kayleigh and Lucy went to see it last night and hated it, so much so they left at half time. Kayleigh said it was weird but I'd probably love it. So, we shall see. I do like a bit of audience interaction and have been looking forward to being blasted with fake snow.
I got everything done that I wanted yesterday. The doctors for my injection first thing, then drive to the outlet retail park before the shops opened, so it was easy to get a parking spot. The main shops open at 10 there, so we tend to plan to get a parking spot early, then have breakfast at Subway. Which is what happened yesterday, with a tasty breakfast sandwich, and a not so tasty surprise of finding an insect at the bottom of the cup of diet coke we were sharing, making that discovery when we'd nearly finished drinking. As the cups are stored upside down, all I can think is it fell in from the pop machine while I was pouring, that or the ice machine. The lady serving was very apologetic and offered a bottle drink for free instead and also cookies. I accepted the drink, not the cookies, though didn't really expect anything.
Got the things I wanted from there, well mostly, the things my MiL liked have been sold, and James surprised me with a heavily discounted Yankee Candle advent calendar, so now I have three on the go, two candle and one chocolate.
From there it was off to check out the new Tesco, and it really is a very shiny shop. They've done a great job building on the old pit site and the landscaping is great. Including a purpose built path that snakes off the retail park to our estate and has benches all along the route.
Only negative thing was we stopped for some petrol, and the bank reserved £120 instead of the £15 we'd actually spent. I know it's a thing to prevent people driving off without paying as the pumps are card only, but it's something that's not actually used in any of the other garages in the area. From a FB post on a local group, it caught a lot of people off-guard, and I can see the frustration as the money still hasn't been released this morning.
Then in the evening we headed to the Indian Restaurant for our festive curries with Pauline, my brother and nephew. As always it was a good time with good food and company. My nephew made me laugh when we were leaving, he's 17 now and used to be very reserved, but is much more chatty now. I always hug my brother goodbye, as does Pauline and we ended up in this strange double hug as we both went in at the same time. But it worked out, and my nephew announced after he wanted a double hug too, so we had to do it again *g*
Tonight we're off to see Slava's Snowshow at the theatre. I thought it looks great, but Kayleigh and Lucy went to see it last night and hated it, so much so they left at half time. Kayleigh said it was weird but I'd probably love it. So, we shall see. I do like a bit of audience interaction and have been looking forward to being blasted with fake snow.
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