08 April 2008

08/04/08
Had a lovely shopping trip today. Walked down to Halfords, which was disappointing as they didn’t have any barrier cream, but I got a catering size can of WD40. Tescos only had Large resealable bags – will have to go to Sainsburys sometime for small and medium, although my local Savacentre doesn’t always have small ones. WHSmith provided a magnetic dry-wipe notice board which I hope will be very handy. Wilkinsons supplied their usual line in el-cheapo stuff, a handful of notepads, washing up brush, toothbrushes, little food storage pots for tea/coffee/sugar/milk. Finally, a trip to Argos yeilded a kettle for under a fiver. I’ve decided to keep an Accounts spreadsheet, and this shows I spent £25.64 today, which isn’t bad for the amount of stuff I got. I’m nearly there with the scrounging list, although I haven’t really managed to “scrounge” much of it yet… I’ll steal some teabags, coffee, sugar and dried milk (only bought for breadmaking – we don’t normally use it!) from the kitchen at some convenient moment, that’ll make me feel better about it. Now, how to get all this lot home from Uxbridge…?! I’ll have fun loading up the Skorpion tonight. It might take a couple of days… Although I always say “where there’s a will there’s a way”, so I’ll give it a good go before I leave stuff here.