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Good morning everyone!

OMG - I really boobed!

I was sitting having breakfast just after 7 this morning - in my night attire - when I got a text from Oc*d* letting me know my order was being delivered between 7 and 8 am! What!!!

My fault and I don't know how I did it because usually I get all grocery deliveries between 10 am and 12 noon.

I have never moved so quickly for ages but managed to pull on t-shirt and trousers just in time cos I saw the van coming along the road opposite. I'll be double-checking everything I click from now on.

Lovely day here girls - sun is out and it is calm and dry, very promising indeed.

Hope you're all well and enjoy today. <3 :-D

Morning Joy :-D <3

Calm down dear. :-D :-D ;-)

I think we have all made boo-boos sometime or the other. As long as you got some clothes on what does it matter? :-D

Have a good day everyone. :-D <3

Morning Joy :-D :-D Well that would have blown your cobwebs away LOL It's ok to post Ocado ;-)

Morning Maddie :-D :-D - perhaps Joy was wearing Baby Dolls? Now that's a get up from the beginning of time :-0

2:43 a.m. here ... I'm fighting with the superstore grocery site to put in my order for tomorrow as I do every time I try to put in a late-night order ... either they spend Tuesday nights @#$%ing with the website so it's unusable or several thousand other people decide to put their orders in after midnight just to mess me around ...

Trying to get a slot for tomorrow afternoon and hoping they're not all gone by the time I manage to get in ... and then manage to get past the "almost there some things are running low" barricade ...

....... and ........

I just made it almost all the way to the end, and it demanded that I select bagging preferences. I CAN'T select bagging preferences because it's for delivery and thank heaven they no longer bag in plastic bags, they pack in used fruit etc. boxes. (In the olden days pre pandemic and pre all the medical mishaps we have had in the last 3 years, I ordered on line and went in to pack & pick up myself, in my permabags. Last month the chain has finally introduced a reusable bin that you return and exchange for the ones your order is packed in. But I don't have enough collected yet, at $6 a pop, and besides IT WON'T LET ME say "bins" anyway.)

So ... switching from Firefox to Chrome sometimes works ... here goes ... Ah yes, it's signed me out ...

spinning spinning spinning

Need to get it in for tomorrow because it's the last day of this week's sales and points offers, and there are big points on pet food again, with pet food including wild bird seed because I ran out on the weekend so I need it now and I want the points.

omg, it still wanted me to state my bagging preferences, but this time it offered me options. Bring my own, return bins, buy bins. So I bought one $6 bin and it was happy. Aiiieeee.

I'm a points hound. This time, I paid for exactly half my $320 order in points. ($100 of that order was cat food and bird seed. The defective cat has to eat tinned food, and it has gone up from 60cents on frequent sale from PetSmart online, free delivery, pre-pandemic, to over $1.00 a can now. The points offer is 20cents in points on the dollar. Can't pass that up. I also buy cat & dog food for the local Food Bank. Pets are people too. I do send people food too!

So after all that -- I win. Order went in. Remember I said it was 2:43? It's now 3:14. Only a half hour of doing battle this time. Well, that's after the previous attempts earlier tonight.

Fortunately, no work due tomorrow. But have to get up in decent time, to set up the delivery with Steve the delivery guy. I'm his favourite customer. I pay well (I try to get at least enough points on an order to cover the delivery charge) and when the bonus gift for a large order is, say, two giant packages of paper towel or two jumbo jugs of laundry detergent, that it would take me a year to use, I give him one. :-)

So I don't know what kind of day it is here yet! Yesterday was a bit coolish but it's supposed to be 25 today. With no pressing work, I shall shove No.1's wheely chair out to the front door and drink coffee on the veranda with him and the cat -- the cat who escaped last night when I was putting something outside in the dark, and only got back in when I panicked a bit this morning, afraid she had got herself blocked up again and was lurking somewhere out of sight, and then remembered: check outside. She had done it once before. Fortunately, spayed, and basically a wimp.

JoyLouise your order should be all stowed away by now. :-D

Island, baby dolls ... in my mum's photograph album that she put together for me (one for each kid), there is a gawwdawful photo of me at about 13, from behind, leaning on the kitchen counter reading the paper or something, in a pair of quite ratty dark beigy bloomer style nylon baby dolls -- i.e. basically a picture of my bum and bare legs. One wonders why. Not at all a Vogue cover pic.

Good morning all :-D <3

It’s bright and sunny here :-D :-D :-D

Joy deep breaths <3
Have a good day everyone <3

Morning Maddie, Island and Joonie. <3 :-D

Only a nightie my dears …. It was warm and I rarely feel cold anyway. But it knocked my routine as I had to pull clothes on before I had my shower.

OH slept through everything. :-D

Island, you took me back to the fifties when I had some, :-D :-D :-D

Morning Von. <3 :-D

Sorry, I must have been typing when you came in. <3

Second coffee of the day now. :-D

Morning everyone :-)

A lovely bright day here and mild with it :-D

Feeling a bit more 'with it' today, so I might tackle a bit of gentle gardening. I noticed yesterday that the birds must have dropped a blackberry in the front garden and a bramble has taken root :-|

That will have to go before it really invades the place. :-0

Morning Joy, Maddie, Island, JC, Von & Gwyn <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Pleased you're feeling a little better, Gwyn <3

JC hope you are able to get a bit of sleep after your online excitement :-0 :-D

Afternoon Joy :-D <3 MG :-D <3 island :-D <3 JC :-D <3 Von :-D <3 Gwyn :-D <3 Belle :-D <3

Afternoon everyone :-D <3 <3

Blue skies and sunny here for a change, am sitting in the garden doing nothing :-D :-D

OH is brewing up :-D :-D

Evening :-D

Evening Billy Fly ;-) <3 :-D

Hiya Belle :-D <3

When the sun's not out it is a bit chilly :-0

Been sunny and warm here Belle :-D dark clouds now :-0

When the sun is out it's ok but a bit overcast now :-(

The woman across the road was back again this morning.....disappeared and is back again this evening :-0

Have you been in the garden :-)