Travelling On

Karmacat

Amazon deliveries came yesterday (cleaned and set to dry).

Cheapfoods delivery came this morning (unpacked, recycled the cardboard, but not yet cleaned).

Asda is due in an hour or so, yikes 🤣 and again, 15% or so of the order not available, and not food either: washing up gloves, packaging tape, and sharing chocolates for Easter (they're not food, even though you put them in your mouth 🤣).

badmemory

Shopping yesterday was getting interesting again.  The egg section just had some at the top, extra large though & you can't really cook with those because the sizes are too off & down at the very bottom a few boxes of large eggs.  Thankfully I always check as the first box I opened only had 5 in.  How do you steal a single egg?  And why would you?  No veggie type burgers since before christmas, no shower shine ditto.  The only shower shine Tesco have are £4 each.  The last thing I need in my shower is something that makes it stink & me sneeze.  Interesting though that they can source that but not the one that is only a £1,  I'll take some convincing that it is a coincidence.

beanielou

badmemory said:

Shopping yesterday was getting interesting again.  The egg section just had some at the top, extra large though & you can't really cook with those because the sizes are too off & down at the very bottom a few boxes of large eggs.  Thankfully I always check as the first box I opened only had 5 in.  How do you steal a single egg?  And why would you?  No veggie type burgers since before christmas, no shower shine ditto.  The only shower shine Tesco have are £4 each.  The last thing I need in my shower is something that makes it stink & me sneeze.  Interesting though that they can source that but not the one that is only a £1,  I'll take some convincing that it is a coincidence.

So would I!

Karmacat

beanielou said:

badmemory said:

Shopping yesterday was getting interesting again.  ... Interesting though that they can source that but not the one that is only a £1,  I'll take some convincing that it is a coincidence.

So would I!

Me three 🙄

Asda have given me the usual number of tins busted in transit, sigh.  And I ordered postage stamps, because they're going up again, 15% at the start of next month, and they didn't even put them in a bag - lucky I saw them, their packaging trays have similar taradiddle stuck all over them.

Starting to clean the shopping, but the knee I injured a few days ago by squatting down for too long has gone again.  I'm very slow!  Still, a cup of coffee, I think, and I'll get to it.

Suffolk_lass

badmemory said:

Shopping yesterday was getting interesting again.  The egg section just had some at the top, extra large though & you can't really cook with those because the sizes are too off & down at the very bottom a few boxes of large eggs.  Thankfully I always check as the first box I opened only had 5 in.  How do you steal a single egg?  And why would you?  No veggie type burgers since before christmas, no shower shine ditto.  The only shower shine Tesco have are £4 each.  The last thing I need in my shower is something that makes it stink & me sneeze.  Interesting though that they can source that but not the one that is only a £1,  I'll take some convincing that it is a coincidence.

You could try using a spray bottle with 50-50 clear distilled vinegar and water, and add a few drops of essential oil like peppermint that will mask the vinegar. Spray and leave for 30 minutes, then rinse and wipe to remove soap scum and limescale

Karmacat

I'm getting into using vinegar at the moment, SL - one thing I'm not sure of is using white or malt, because white is 3 times the price, and I don't get it.  I haven't cut it with distilled water yet, but that sounds much better than the chemicals that we get in cleaning products from supermarkets (I'm a work in progress, what can I say, "sensitive non-bio detergent liquid" smells disgustingly perfumed). 

I still have a lot of washing of shopping to do.  Definitely want to go for a walk - sunshine here, and only a 5% chance of rain.  I'd really like to do some gardening, but way too much bending for that, even if I do tree pruning, still have to pick up the branches and twigs from the ground.  Pah - knee twinges, but not too badly, and I've no intention of making it worse.

Suffolk_lass

Distilled clear and malt vinegar are both 29p for 568ml in Asbo (5.1p litre) Washing soda and lemon juice are the other go-to products. Oh, and if you were to find a bar of the original Fairy soap, there are all sorts of things that can be used for and some involving graters!

Baileys_Babe

Suffolk_lass said:

Distilled clear and malt vinegar are both 29p for 568ml in Asbo (5.1p litre) Washing soda and lemon juice are the other go-to products. Oh, and if you were to find a bar of the original Fairy soap, there are all sorts of things that can be used for and some involving graters!

Aldi distilled clear and malt vinegars are also 29p for 568 ml.

Karmacat

Thanks for this!  When I've been scrolling online during booking a delivery, I obviously haven't scrolled enough.  Now you've both said that, I had a look further down and came across the white vinegar at the same basic price 🙄  botheration 🤣 Must try harder!

I seem to be having a very lazy day, however - maybe the stress of the knee pain yesterday?  don't know.  I know I've done nothing physical apart from cook my porridge and mix together my cooked quinoa and tinned chickpeas, with assorted sauces and spices.  I'll head out to the postbox before 5, to send my little great-niece's birthday card to London, and I might do more, but posting the card is the only thing on the actual agenda.

Karmacat

I *have* to catch up with myself, and stop reading Outlander 🙄  So, I am readying myself for this day:
- post birthday card
- take expired medications and vaguely medical stuff to Boots for safe disposal.  See if they've got anything I want - I doubt it, but they might, they're a shop 🤣
- go to the local Mountain Warehouse shop - no idea if the sale offer I've been sent applies to the shops as well, I can't tell, but I'll try out some walking shoes there - sale offer starts at £20 for wide fit shoes, which sounds too good to miss, I'm very needy of walking shoes!  I had a stash of "future shoes" at one point, but they're the wrong widths now, and not waterproof.  
- pop in to £stretcher or whatever its called now, and see if they have a diary, plus fairly good quality parcel tape - Asda have been out of stock for 2 months now, and I can't make a bundle up anywhere else to make a delivery charge worthwhile.
- get back home, shower and wash my hair.  
- collapse in my armchair ☕😎
- if I have anything left in the tank, email London buddy and do some research on lunar lander for, oops, the U3A meeting on Monday.

I'm going to the shops 😛🤾🏻‍♀️  jumpy smiley would still be more appropriate, but there we go.