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Blackcats

Thank you @lucielle.
aw @RebeccaPAgain you are far too kind.  We recreated a holiday pizza - tuna, onion and black olive which is probably an acquired taste but reminded us of a little pizzeria on the seafront in warmer climes.

Swam my new normal 22 lengths this morningbwhich is getting easier and then did our monthly stock up shop at Lidl using our 10% off voucher.  I had a grocery underspend in January so I'm hoping to repeat that to help my focus on the health & wellbeing pot.  I did a couple of surveys too which will get this month's earnings underway.

my dad was reminiscing earlier about when he was evacuated with his 3 younger sisters.  They lived in central London so their entire school including some teachers were sent to the villages around Slough which really doesn't seem very far from London now.  He recalled that once a month one of the teachers would take him and his sisters to the local shop and buy them a small bar of chocolate to share.  It wasn't using their rations so presumably she used her own.  I felt quite emotional that an act of kindness from over 85 years ago is still thought about with such happy memories.

Sun_Addict

What a lovely memory for your dad. I bet no chocolate has ever tasted so good since. 

PennysIntoPounds

That's made me a bit teary! Just goes to show we should all remember generally but especially on these here mse boards, that it's the quiet kindnesses not the extravagant displays, that are deeply felt and cherished for lifetimes 

Blackcats

It's a lovely story isn't it SA and PIP.  Many of dad's childhood memories involve acts of kindness.  He grew up in the 1920's and 30's in a big family who didn't have much money but it sounds like neighbours, teachers and local shopkeepers were often generous with what little they had.   As PIP so eloquently says our quiet kindness can be felt long after we think about them.

I've adopted @foxgloves "love your home"  approach to housework chores.  I've just done an hour in the bedroom (wash your mind out PIP) and I've changed the bedlinen, plumped the cushions, cleaned every slat of the blinds; polished the furniture and shone the mirrors.  I listened to my audiobook and nearly enjoyed myself.

foxgloves

I do find this approach is helping, @Blackcats. I have tomorrow's home care task all lined up (which I am expecting to enjoy) then on Friday I'll just be doing an hour of vacuuming & a bathroom clean. I am already finding that the house is looking more to my liking as this approach is covering a much wider variety of cleaning tasks. 
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RebeccaPAgain

What a lovely memory Blackcats.  

Blackcats

We have had a good money saving expedition to a humungous m n s where despite loading our trolley we spent absolutely nothing.  How did we manage that?  Well MrBC finally accepted that he needed a few new clothes (like socks, pants, t shirts etc) and I had the bright idea of going to the biggest m n s in this locale and, yes, we managed to find what we wanted and headed to the checkout.  It was a bank of 4 tills behind a counter rather than individual tills and there was no other shopper looking to pay.  We realised that we had entered the paying zone from left to right rather than right to left and joked with the cashier that we'd come in the wrong way but she frowned and told us we would have to walk out and round and come in the right way.  Honestly I couldn't believe it, there was no queue and no-one else anywhere near.  We checked with her that she meant it, which she assured us she did, so we left the trolley and left the shop empty handed and full pursed, 🥴

redofromstart

That would be the kind of thing we did too, well done you.

ladyholly

I would also be emailing head office about the discourtesy to customers pointing out that you had left the items rather that be spoken to like that. I worked in retail for many years when younger and get fed up with the way customers are treated these days.

PennysIntoPounds

I'm sorry for the annoyance and wasted time but that is absolutely hilarious 😂 

https://www.marksandspencer.com/c/help-and-support/contact

From quick glimpse looks like you can complain by calling, or through their online doodah, but I definitely would, that is effin outrageous! I found m and s very good on the one occasion I needed to question something