Shopping day means...

[wiseheart]

... that you can basically kiss the rest of your day good-bye. Well, I certainly can. Especially as I go walk to two-third of the shops to avoid being exposed to public transport and the many irresponsible idiots that use it.

In any case, I started with walking to ALDI in the morning, getting the basic necessities like milk, bread and the likes. Since I was moderately pissed at life in general, I decided that Mum and I needed a treat and bought croissants for breakfast (remember, we have breakfast at 11am because of my 16-hour fasting). So we had an opulent breakfast: croissants, strawberry jam and café latte. Yum!

But after inspecting the goods I've bought Mum and I decided that we could actually do with even more canned soup (or rather bagged soup: dry ingredients you have to cook up with a certain amount of water) and some more Spekulatius biscuits that have been on sale at ALDI for weeks by now. We just love those, and you can only get them around Christmas - and afterwards for a reduced price.

So, since I had to go to school after breakfast anyway, to pre-pay for my monthly order of eggsies, I made a detour back to ALDI (more walking) and buy the things. Then I caught the (fortunately nearly empty) bus to school, gave my egg orders and went up to the teachers' room to meet my girls. Much masked waving at each other was done, and Elise showed me pics of her third granddaughter, born in last October. Then I took the bus home, making a detour to LIDL, where I buy the mineral water and other heavy stuff, since that is the grocery shop closest to our building.

By the time I came home, it was well beyond 2pm, so I was glad I bought some ready-made salad I only had to chop smaller for Mum (she couldn't eat it otherwise) and some pasties. If we started to cook then, we still would be sitting at lunch now. Opulent breakfast, pathetic lunch. I think supper will be greatly appreciated.

I so hoped for a bit peace and quiet after lunch but no such luck. My insurance agent called soon thereafter, and as always, it was a tedious affair. She is loud, she talks like a waterfall and has fairly idiotic views about life in general and the current situation in particular. Fortunately, I could wear off a planned visit of hers (it is usually overly long and not very useful) and agreed to get whatever she wanted to show me in written form. Phew!

And now the day is almost over, I missed all my programmes on TV for one reason or another, and there won't be anything else to watch in the evening because the stupid TV Paprika stopped showing Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds, even though we have barely had half the series. *is royally pissed*

Well... at least I got to meet my girls. That makes up for the rest of the day.

Comments

[meathiel]

German TV does that as well to stop TV series somewhere in the middle ... and if I'm lucky I catch the new episodes when they show them months later. *grumbles*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know. It's so annoying — and illogical to the extreme!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

are those the same cookies we call speculoos in the US?
boo on them for taking away your Paul Hollywood fix!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think they might be, though I'm not sure.
And yeah, Mum and I both miss Paul Hollywood something fierce!

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Your shopping trek sounds like an ordeal. I get my groceries delivered now, but try to buy fruit and veg myself so that I can select the freshest.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is not so bad, actually; it's just so that it takes so much time! This is the only disadvantage of being retired: while working, I could do my shopping on my way home, in small rations — now I have to drag home huge shopping bags twice a week, so that I wouldn't have to go out more often.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I've been avoiding public transport, too. Too many people in a confined space, masks or not.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Especially if the idiots don't wear their masks properly.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really lovely treat breakfast. And has given me an idea — I have the not-quite granddaughter sleeping here tomorrow night to make the moving house easier for my daughter and husband on Friday. She loves croissants so I will get some tomorrow and then warm them for her to have before school on Friday as a special treat.

I love the special Christmas things when they go on offer in January, too.

I get so annoyed at the people who have such odd ideas and beliefs about the pandemic. Someone on an island FB group was saying "Don't believe the UK figures — they just put covid on everyone's death certificates if they have tested positive in the 28 days, half of them died of something else..." I actually couldn't just pass over it — I asked her what would be the advantage to 'them' to exaggerate deaths? Surely the UK government would prefer to underestimate them. If someone with covid died of pneumonia surely the doctors were right to put it as one of the causes of death? And even if only half of over 100,000 had died because they had covid, which I did not accept, surely that would be horrific in its own right?

As you might expect I didn't get any coherent reply — just 'I didn't say it wasn't horrific that people had died, I'm just saying people shouldn't believe what they read or see on the news.'

I left it there. I hope my comment made people think about what the other woman wrote.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Even one life lost because of Covid is horrible. As Mum says, all those chronically ill people (our government likes to emphasize that the Covid victims were mostly cronically ill, which isn't true, of course) might have lived on for quite a few years yet without the dratted virus.

What I hate most in the current situation is the fact that several different sides use the pandemic as a tool to gain political advantages, making unfounded statements about the virus and the vaccine and whatnot, leaving the population in doubt and confusion and very real fear.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The politics are awful. Now they are trying to use the vaccines to score points, too :(

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

My country is one that has made the virus political. I admire leaders of other countries that basically listen to the doctors and scientists (experts) and respond accordingly. Sorry you are losing some of your favorite TV shows. Seems they always get rid of the good ones but let the not so good stay on forever.