(Friday)The wind and cold continues. I just hope it doesn't come back stronger than ever. They have said on the weather forecast on BBC Breakfast this morning that we can expect more extreme weather, so it's a matter of 'batten down the hatches' once more. More like, tie down your wheeley bins, as they have a habit of moving when the wind is strong!
I went to Morrison's this morning. I'm looking for a broom so I can sweep the floor of the flat. How difficult is it to find a suitable broom for this job in Milton Keynes? You would think it would be relatively easy to find such a broom. I looked in Sainsbury's the other day, but no luck. You can buy a brush on a sort of long handle with a pan to collect what you've swept up, but I don't want one because I already have a dustpan and brush. I thought, if I go on line and have a look at Morrison's website I can check this out and I also want some superglue to fix on the handle of the trolley I bought on Amazon, which arrived yesterday morning, along with two books I'd ordered. The thing was easy enough to put together, except the bar which is for pushing it around has the screw holes in the wrong place and it wouldn't fit together, so I thought that superglueing it would be sufficient. I also looked for this on the Morrison's website, and there it was. Which is why I went to their branch near Milton Keynes station.
I got to Morrison's, parked the car, went up on the travelator (which, up to the point I arrived at the foot off wasn't operating, until a man came along and took away the barrier and the thing began to move. It amuses me that it moves slowly up until the point you step on it and then it moves a good deal faster.) When I arrived on the shop floor and approached the trolley park, I discovered that you now had to insert a £1 coin in order to use a trolley. Previously they didn't need a coin. I went back to the car and put the bags back in the back of the car and returned to the store and had a look for the broom and superglue and then changed my mind and decided to go to the cashpoint outside the store to take out a £10 note and then went back inside to get it changed into coins at the kiosk and began my walk around the store. Enough food to keep me going for at least two or three weeks. I found the basic brush for a broom, but there was no handle! As for the superglue, no sign, which was annoying, since I had come into Morrison's with the intention of finding and buying these items. What on earth is the use of the brush without the handle? It's not a broom until it has said handle.
I next thought was, find a member of staff and ask about the broom-handle. Surely a staff member would be able to tell me where I could get the handle to attach to the aforementioned brush? I saw a lady stacking shelves, but she moved further away when I spoke. Perhaps she didn't hear me, but I eventually caught up with her and asked about the handle. The lady said that she had wanted to buy a broom herself and found there was no matching handle and had mentioned this to the store manager and told me I would be better off going to the nearby Range store, which was a bit off, considering she was telling me to go elsewhere to buy a broom. So, on leaving Morrison's, I went directly to The Range, which is almost immediately across the road from Morrison's, in Winter Hill. I was somewhat surprised to see a large sign up on the outside of the building which houses The Range, emblazoned with the name Iceland and then, on entering the store, finding that to one end there is indeed an Iceland, taking up a considerable amount of space. I found a broom! Eurika! And after walking the length of the store, a tube of superglue, and with these finds firmly grasped in my hand, I went to pay at the till. I made the passing comment to the lady on the till about the near impossibility of finding a broom. I said that perhaps there was a convention of witches who had bought them all up, which got a laugh, and she said she knew a few witches, not, I'm sure, real, but I said I had worked with one or two, not giving names, but, again, it got a laugh, so at least it made someone smile and made their day. So, mission complete, I returned home and then took Alfie out for a further walk. It has become fairly blustery, even more than it was earlier and we walked around Oldbrook Green and then returned home.
I got to Morrison's, parked the car, went up on the travelator (which, up to the point I arrived at the foot off wasn't operating, until a man came along and took away the barrier and the thing began to move. It amuses me that it moves slowly up until the point you step on it and then it moves a good deal faster.) When I arrived on the shop floor and approached the trolley park, I discovered that you now had to insert a £1 coin in order to use a trolley. Previously they didn't need a coin. I went back to the car and put the bags back in the back of the car and returned to the store and had a look for the broom and superglue and then changed my mind and decided to go to the cashpoint outside the store to take out a £10 note and then went back inside to get it changed into coins at the kiosk and began my walk around the store. Enough food to keep me going for at least two or three weeks. I found the basic brush for a broom, but there was no handle! As for the superglue, no sign, which was annoying, since I had come into Morrison's with the intention of finding and buying these items. What on earth is the use of the brush without the handle? It's not a broom until it has said handle.
I next thought was, find a member of staff and ask about the broom-handle. Surely a staff member would be able to tell me where I could get the handle to attach to the aforementioned brush? I saw a lady stacking shelves, but she moved further away when I spoke. Perhaps she didn't hear me, but I eventually caught up with her and asked about the handle. The lady said that she had wanted to buy a broom herself and found there was no matching handle and had mentioned this to the store manager and told me I would be better off going to the nearby Range store, which was a bit off, considering she was telling me to go elsewhere to buy a broom. So, on leaving Morrison's, I went directly to The Range, which is almost immediately across the road from Morrison's, in Winter Hill. I was somewhat surprised to see a large sign up on the outside of the building which houses The Range, emblazoned with the name Iceland and then, on entering the store, finding that to one end there is indeed an Iceland, taking up a considerable amount of space. I found a broom! Eurika! And after walking the length of the store, a tube of superglue, and with these finds firmly grasped in my hand, I went to pay at the till. I made the passing comment to the lady on the till about the near impossibility of finding a broom. I said that perhaps there was a convention of witches who had bought them all up, which got a laugh, and she said she knew a few witches, not, I'm sure, real, but I said I had worked with one or two, not giving names, but, again, it got a laugh, so at least it made someone smile and made their day. So, mission complete, I returned home and then took Alfie out for a further walk. It has become fairly blustery, even more than it was earlier and we walked around Oldbrook Green and then returned home.
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