General Chat

I am fluent in waffle :-D :-D

Several years ago there was a shop here that only sold refills - take your own canister, box or whatever.

I walked in one day, looked around and walked straight out. It did not seem too clean to me.

Since then we've had nothing else like it here.

Remember when Woolies sold sweets that you filled yourself in the bags supplied. One of the tubes sold wrapped sweets and the other sold child-like sweets. One lunchtime I saw a child twist the handle and some of the unwrapped sweets scattered all around the floor. I often wonder whether Woolies thought it was worth it because there must have been more children doing the same thing.

I hate trailing round food shopping and have stuck with weekly deliveries since March last year and I love it. I had forgotten how easy it was to have Iceland deliver when I was working in the mid- to late-1990s. They were the only ones who delivered at that time in this area. Now, it's fab - everyone delivers!

It was more relaxing in the 'olden days' when you went into the shop (with or without a list) and could sit while the assistant filled your order for you into the basket you took with you. I have found myself poignantly thinking about that relaxed way of shopping. Also, remember fondly, when twice a week someone from the local grocery store would visit our house and Mum would tell her what she wanted - then the stufff would be delivered a day or two later. Even better!

That was before I was old enough to take the basket and list to the local grocery store on Saturday mornings and wait and wait and wait and wait .... (that's what it seemed like as a girl about eight or nine years of age) ..... for one of the assistants to fill it.

I think Mum must have disliked grocery shopping too.