Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Socialising and shopping

Someone wrote a play with ‘shopping’ and er something else or other in the title, didn’t they? Well enough of that – we went to another neighbour drinks thing on Sunday night and yesterday, Christmas Day, to M’s brother, who produced roast turkey with all the trimmings for us. Excellent job. It was rather a lazy day, and we watched Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone on the TV – and a number of other things. Having read the first four books for my dissertation in 2002, I watched it (although for the second time) with interest. It was a very faithful version of the book.

We made up our minds to go to Comet today to get a new microwave and this was surprisingly effortless. We managed to get a reasonable parking space; we found the microwave we wanted and a nice young salesman carried it to the car; we then hunted for a digital radio and found one of those too. Then we took ourselves off to see carpets and suites to assess prices, etc., our living room carpet having developed a worn patch and our suite having been deserving of the elbow for some time. I can’t decide if the worn patch is due to my aerobics period (although I haven’t been energetic enough to do this recently) or the fact that the Dyson seems to eat up half the carpet on every tour of duty. Typically, M on seeing the pattern books in the furniture shop was reluctant to agree to a dark brown suite to replace our green one. I could see what he wanted, as he has never stopped hankering for a white carpet – he wanted the cream coloured one, so that he could pour coffee over it and decorate it with tar and oil. I had to concede that the dark brown would make our lounge look rather depressing and cream was actually the right colour for the room. The salesman in Furniture Village – very helpful and not at all pushy – nearly sold us the idea when he told us about the guaranteed protective surface which could be sprayed on. We left without making a decision though. New suite requires a little mulling over.

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