Busy Day
Gosh, what a busy day! First thing we set off for Portswood to 'Farm Foods' to get our fortnightly shop. Upon arrival in the town we were briefly confused by the high street being closed due to 'essential gas main works' - however, we found our way round the back streets and entered the town from the other side. We got everything we needed for fortnight (bar milk, fruit and yoghurt's) for £69.50 less £7.50 in vouchers we had to use - not bad at all!
I was telling Peter in the car about a TV programme I had seen where a guy - belonging to the 'Freegan' group regularly scavenged his local supermarket skip and found no end of perfect condition food in it that the supermarket had thrown out rather than reduce to sell to it's customers - it was scandalous really, the utter wastefulness of it. Peter said "are you honestly expecting us to go raiding bins now?", Well no, BUT if I knew a local supermarket of ours was throwing perfectly good food out I'd certainly have a look!
Anyway, we mooched around the many charity shops in the town and got some book and DVD bargains and then headed home.
After dumping the shopping it was off to Homebase where we bought a new patio set as we had a £25 voucher to use which ran out this weekend. It was a bit of a palaver getting the thing home as we could only get the table in the boot and not the chairs so Peter drove home with the table and dropped that off, whilst I sat on the chairs in the car park waiting for him to come and get me - well I certainly got a bit more of a tan - the car park was baking. Whilst struggling to get the stuff in the boot we encoutered a very annoying woman, who had parked next to us; she had got into the car to leave and loaded her children in the back and she could see we were struggling to get stuff into our car, but instead of moving off so we could get the side doors of our car open fully, she just sat there and lit up a leisurely cigarette and let the smoke waft into the back of the car all over her children who didn't even have their windows open - nice parent!
After a quick lunch we set to with gardening and housework (more frantically than usual as my parents are coming over tomorrow). We did a couple of hours before it started to rain - I don't think either of us were that disappointed as we were both pretty tired by then and welcomed the excuse to sit indoors for a bit.
During the evening we watched a DVD I'd bought of an Australian film called 'The Dish' about a remote satellite dish in Australia which was used by NASSA to pick up the signals of the moon landings. It was a lovely gentle film with lots of Aussie humour, we both really enjoyed it.
I was telling Peter in the car about a TV programme I had seen where a guy - belonging to the 'Freegan' group regularly scavenged his local supermarket skip and found no end of perfect condition food in it that the supermarket had thrown out rather than reduce to sell to it's customers - it was scandalous really, the utter wastefulness of it. Peter said "are you honestly expecting us to go raiding bins now?", Well no, BUT if I knew a local supermarket of ours was throwing perfectly good food out I'd certainly have a look!
Anyway, we mooched around the many charity shops in the town and got some book and DVD bargains and then headed home.
After dumping the shopping it was off to Homebase where we bought a new patio set as we had a £25 voucher to use which ran out this weekend. It was a bit of a palaver getting the thing home as we could only get the table in the boot and not the chairs so Peter drove home with the table and dropped that off, whilst I sat on the chairs in the car park waiting for him to come and get me - well I certainly got a bit more of a tan - the car park was baking. Whilst struggling to get the stuff in the boot we encoutered a very annoying woman, who had parked next to us; she had got into the car to leave and loaded her children in the back and she could see we were struggling to get stuff into our car, but instead of moving off so we could get the side doors of our car open fully, she just sat there and lit up a leisurely cigarette and let the smoke waft into the back of the car all over her children who didn't even have their windows open - nice parent!
After a quick lunch we set to with gardening and housework (more frantically than usual as my parents are coming over tomorrow). We did a couple of hours before it started to rain - I don't think either of us were that disappointed as we were both pretty tired by then and welcomed the excuse to sit indoors for a bit.
During the evening we watched a DVD I'd bought of an Australian film called 'The Dish' about a remote satellite dish in Australia which was used by NASSA to pick up the signals of the moon landings. It was a lovely gentle film with lots of Aussie humour, we both really enjoyed it.
posted by Lover of Books, Films and Good Coffee Shops Everywhere! at
6:02 AM
1 Comments:
"The Dish" is a wonderful film - glad you enjoyed it!
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