Trying to buy 'stuff'

St Judith



After a glorious weekend, the weather has been ghastly today so we went shopping this morning to buy the rest of the edging for the garden paths. We are inundated every Tuesday or Wednesday with leaflets from the local supermarkets and hypermarkets letting us know what their special offers are for this week. The garden and agricultural shops let us know once a month and we were pleased to see that one of them was doing a special offer on the edging we have been using.



The offer started on 1 May so Jon jumped at the opportunity and went on Friday (shops being closed on 1 May for the public holiday), to collect as many as he could find. Unfortunately they had none. Whether they had just not yet stocked up, or whether they were ignoring what was advertised in their leaflet we just don't know.



There's another branch of the same shop in Cahors so we decided to pop down there this morning to collect what they might have in stock. Unfortunately this branch has the smallest parking area and it was not only full but four cars were trying to shuffle themselves to and fro into the tiniest spaces they could find.



We gave it a miss and pottered along to the nearest DIY (with a large car park) just to see if, on the off chance they were stocking the same thing. They were, so we piled 26 rolls of log edging onto a trolley. Of course some of them fell off but we managed to retrieve them without causing ourselves too much embarassement. While we were there we checked the stock of the floorboards we want for the loft. They have almost sold out and filled the space with something else, so we guess we won't be able to get the boards there and it will mean us going further afield.



Once again we are faced with a familiar frustration - if you don't buy what you see when you first see it, it won't be available when you go back. Unfortuantely we can't buy them when we see them as 55 square metres of floor boards will not fit into one Peugeot 106. So we want to plan a date when we can hire a van to make a trip specially for them.



Now we will have to do another recce to another DIY store to see if they have what we require and then organise the van quickly and go back for them the next day.



We've decided to forget about the loft for a week or so and concentrate on the garden paths instead. Naturally, whoever is against us has forseen this and it is now pouring with rain AGAIN, the garden is once more full of mud and we can't get on with any tidying up.



AND I won't be able to swim today!!!!