Once more.....Part the second.

After lunch, I asked Neville to meet me just up the street a bit at the curtain and blind shop. I was just going to browse, as I was thinking of getting new curtains for my bedroom, as the old ones I have let in too much light in the wee small hours, and I am sick of waking up at the crack of dawn and not being able to go back to sleep.
They have a special deal for curtain sales. If you purchase certain fabrics by a certain company, they will make them up free. I liked several, but, as they were around the $30-$40 mark per metre, I balked at the idea. I was just about to give it the flick and leave, when I spied some remnants on rolls. I liked a burgundy one very much. I liked the price very, very much. $5.00 a metre. The owner and I worked out how much fabric I would need, and I bought it, and I told him I would measure the curtain rail and ring him with the details as soon as I got home. It will cost me just over $60.00 to have them made and the owner has agreed to let me pay that off gradually. He knows I will not let him down.It is good for business anyway.

Once more in to the breach, dear friends, once more.....

I am not sure if we are gluttons for punishment, or just slow learners. It might just be that we have very little choice in this burg, but the Man about the House and I went to the pub for lunch again today.
It was about 11-35 a.m., and he asked me if I would like to go to the pub for lunch, as it is seniors day, and cheaper. We were unable to enjoy our usual pub lunch last week when we were in Naracoorte, as I had had a large filling and was not allowed to eat for two hours.
We checked the menu and I decided to try the pasta, as I have no confidence in the cook's other meals. When we ordered our meals, we were told that the pasta was not on the menu for seniors. If it was with all the other dishes they could have, why was it NOT for us?
I settled for the 'beaten up butter fish' and salad, and Neville had the corned Silverside and veg. When it arrived, the salad portion was so miniscule one needed a magnifying glass to find it! Neville's meal looked passable, but the 'white ' sauce was yellow. Don't know what it tasted like. When the desserts were eventually brought round, he had trifle, or what passed for it, and I had a banana fritter. Very nice.
I will; have to finish this later as the pressure pump for our water is not working, and he needs to remove fuses to see if that is the problem.

Where do they find 'em?

Yesterday, while in Naracoorte, I was going to do an errand for my daughter, when my spouse asked me if I would put a prescription in at the chemist for him, as I was going past it anyway. I asked which one he preferred, there are two, and he said the one we were parked behind would do. I duly entered said premises, and was approached by a young female assistant, who asked what she could do for me.I said I would like the script made up for my husband. She asked if I had had scripts done there before. I told her, yes, but this was not mine, it was my husband's. She then asked if I had my Medicare card, or my pension concession card. Once again I told her it was not my prescription, and that information should be on the script. All this time she had not once looked at the script. I walked back to the counter, as I had started to walk out the door to do my errand, and pointed to the script and asked her if the numbers she was asking about were on it, as I could not see them, as I am legally blind. At this point, one of the older shop assistants came over and pointed to the script and said "There is the Medicare number, and there is the concession number." She was a bit exasperated like me. I would appear it is easier to glean the relevant information from the customer, than it is to actually look for it. How some of these young people get the job in the first place I don't know. What gets me is, how they manage to keep them. Grrrr!

Methinks something got lost in translation.

I have just opened the box containing the wonderful foot spa my son and his family gave me for my recent birthday.
I was reading the instructions before using it. I was highly amused to read some of them, as they are reminiscent of those he has posted from other countries.
To wit:- If you are pregnant, consult your health care professional before using. Please explain.
Do not use appliance if you are SLEEPING or drowsy??? Is there some danger one would pitch forward and drown? One would need to be VERY small, and an acrobat.
Never leave an appliance unattended while in use! Bit difficult, as you have to sit down and have your feet in water.
Do not place the appliance on a gas flame or hot electric element, or on a heated oven. Do not place on top of any other appliance.
Do not let the power cord of the appliance hang over the table or bench top or touch any hot surface! The mind boggles! Where the heck are you going to be using the thing?
They say laughter is the best medicine, and I certainly had a good belly laugh over these.
Enjoy!

Gonna have a gripe!

One of these days I am going to post a list of my pet peeves. Today, I am just writing about one that has me wondering about the wisdom(?) of the ad men.
I have purchased a certain brand of sugarless chewing gum now for over a year. It was always a pack of six packets. There are seven sticks of gum in each packet. Yesterday, I bought what looked like the same product, packed the same way as I have been used to. However, when I opened one I was stunned to discover three cardboard boxes of 14 inside the wrapper, each one of these was wrapped in cellophane.Now, why on earth was it deemed necessary to wrap the little boxes in cellophane?
Ok, I think it is much better for the gum to be in little boxes, as it is more convenient and the gum stays put, but, the cellophane is an unnecessary waste of paper,and resources, as the boxes are already in a wrapper, and it is not helping the environment.
This also applies to all products that we buy, as I have thought for a long time, there is far too much packaging which is a waste, and they are not always easy to open.