The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ivyleaf

Sorry to hear about the dratted cold and cough, nannywindow. There's a lot of it about unfortunately! sending you get-well wishes

OH says we (or at any rate he) need/s to Go Shopping today, especially as he's run out of cereal and can't get his favourite sort in the local Co-Op or Sainsburys Local. So a shopping list it will be, then if I conk out part of the way round the store I can go and sit down and leave him to it.
What I usually try to do when I can't manage much walking is to walk along the middle, and only divert into the aisles where the things are which are on the list, but it's more difficult in bigger stores where some things are around the edges! (such as the *ahem* cake counter for instance *ahem*)

monnagran

ivyleaf: I do the same but am completely thrown when they move everything round and you end up without half the things you want because you can't find them.

You can ALWAYS find the cake counter. It calls to you.

x

nannywindow

Thank you Ivyleaf
I sent DH shopping for bread, milk and something for tea as I have passed the cooking baton to DH for a few days. You would think something as simple as that could be achieved ? Came home with the bread and milk - no problem, but what did he get for tea you ask ? " Well I couldn't make up my mind so I got these instead " - Drum roll please... A pair of bright blue fishing socks :eek: And to make matters worse he doesn't even go fishing. Honestly you couldn't make it up and he looked so pleased with his self. So now will have to drag something from the freezer !
nan

mardatha

Ivy I get Sainsbugs online, nothing on earth is going to get me trekking round a big shop every again.

VJsmum

nannywindow wrote: »

Thank you Ivyleaf
I sent DH shopping for bread, milk and something for tea as I have passed the cooking baton to DH for a few days. You would think something as simple as that could be achieved ? Came home with the bread and milk - no problem, but what did he get for tea you ask ? " Well I couldn't make up my mind so I got these instead " - Drum roll please... A pair of bright blue fishing socks :eek: And to make matters worse he doesn't even go fishing. Honestly you couldn't make it up and he looked so pleased with his self. So now will have to drag something from the freezer !
nan

:rotfl: That's classic...

my OH will often say something like "get me something with a yellow lid" when i go shopping:rotfl:. If he goes his "something for tea" is always ready made, even though i never give him ready made food....

Monnagran, you crack me up

ivyleaf

nannywindow wrote: »

Thank you Ivyleaf
I sent DH shopping for bread, milk and something for tea as I have passed the cooking baton to DH for a few days. You would think something as simple as that could be achieved ? Came home with the bread and milk - no problem, but what did he get for tea you ask ? " Well I couldn't make up my mind so I got these instead " - Drum roll please... A pair of bright blue fishing socks :eek: And to make matters worse he doesn't even go fishing. Honestly you couldn't make it up and he looked so pleased with his self. So now will have to drag something from the freezer !
nan

Oh dear, that did make me laugh :rotfl:

I managed Sainsbury's okay Will have a restful afternoon though, apart from washing my hair.

VJ'smum Does your OH have any particular thing in mind when he asks for something with a yellow lid?

mar - believe it or not, we've never tried online grocery shopping! Should do really, but I worry that they will bring a load of stuff with short dates that all has to be eaten within a day or two.

Today, as I'm still having to be very careful about not standing in one spot for too long and OH can't stand up for long at the stove either because of his hip, we bought easy to cook stuff. Will do a sausage casserole at the weekend though but I think I'll advise him to use the food processor for chopping the veg! Just to be on the safe side.....;)

monnagran

nannywindow wrote: »

Thank you Ivyleaf
I sent DH shopping for bread, milk and something for tea as I have passed the cooking baton to DH for a few days. You would think something as simple as that could be achieved ? Came home with the bread and milk - no problem, but what did he get for tea you ask ? " Well I couldn't make up my mind so I got these instead " - Drum roll please... A pair of bright blue fishing socks :eek: And to make matters worse he doesn't even go fishing. Honestly you couldn't make it up and he looked so pleased with his self. So now will have to drag something from the freezer !
nan

That is the best laugh I have had all day.

My friend who was going through a busy time was asked by her husband if there was anything he could do to help. She said that he could get the meal for them and their two daughters.
On being summoned to the table they all arrived to find.......4 bags of crisps.
She said that to add insult to injury they were prawn cocktail flavour......that they all, including him, loathed.

Fishing socks trumps that though.

x

nursemaggie

You know what, nannywindow, I think I would have cooked them.

My ex used to buy things if they were in a pretty jar irrespective of how expensive they were. I caught him one day putting a pretty jar in the trolley, I asked him why he was buying it as neither of us liked the contents and is was ludicrously expensive. I made him put it back.

He had a strange idea of thrift. I was allowed to buy 1 item of non food per week. It could be something as expensive as a car or a house but I could not buy two wooden spoons in the same week. I had to be very secretive about non food items and could not of course buy them in the supermarket because he always came.

westcoastscot

I've probably only told you a million times but would **so** love home delivery!!!! :rotfl: It must be so great to just sit with the laptop on your knee and plan your shopping, then it arrive at your door

moneyistooshorttomention

nursemaggie wrote: »

You know what, nannywindow, I think I would have cooked them.

My ex used to buy things if they were in a pretty jar irrespective of how expensive they were. I caught him one day putting a pretty jar in the trolley, I asked him why he was buying it as neither of us liked the contents and is was ludicrously expensive. I made him put it back.

He had a strange idea of thrift. I was allowed to buy 1 item of non food per week. It could be something as expensive as a car or a house but I could not buy two wooden spoons in the same week. I had to be very secretive about non food items and could not of course buy them in the supermarket because he always came.

Ooh...he'd have loved (not...:rotfl:) someone pretty literal-minded like myself then...:rotfl:

Week 1 would have been buying two spoons and telling him "Look - only one of them is wooden. But the other one is metal".

Week 2 would have been buying 2 items of clothing for my "bottom half" and saying "Look - only one of them is a pair of jeans. The other one is a pair of trousers"

....and so on ad infinitum:D