Back from the grocery store...what a zoo. Bah humbug!

Jeff wrote:

Back from the grocery store...what a zoo. Bah humbug!

Think yourself lucky! Apparently there were 6 hour queues to leave a southern England shopping centre yesterday! I'd rather spontaneously combust!!

Jeff wrote:

Back from the grocery store...what a zoo. Bah humbug!

I managed to do all (..most all) of the shopping on Monday and it was surprisingly calm them. Wouldn't have liked to be there today. There was no work today and the sun was shining so I took a walk to the seaside, probably the first time I've properly seen the sun for weeks. Quite refreshing. It's been a record warm December (sunday was +11C) so there's no snow, but still the length of the day is less than six hours at this latitude.

Fraid so.  I had 6 days in hospital in Septemember with an appendicitis. They couldn't take it out coz I had a chest infection (too many figs)
Hoping to give up figs on HNE 

Back in 20 or 30mins. Have to collect a relative from the station.

Puncher wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Back from the grocery store...what a zoo. Bah humbug!

Think yourself lucky! Apparently there were 6 hour queues to leave a southern England shopping centre yesterday! I'd rather spontaneously combust!!

Holy carp! Makes me realize just why I've not gone Christmas shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store for well over a decade and a half. I did take my wife to a high end yarn store last week and let her go wild in the hand dyed silk yarn section, that cost me but she's just little girl happy playing with her yarn, which makes it all worth it.

For me, I have a license to shop for myself, as the only things I really wanted (new trigger for my AR, laser sight for my carry pistol) are things she can't easily figure out what I want.

They're taking it out on Jan 28 hopefully

...height of the sun just a little past noon

jandyt wrote:

They're taking it out on Jan 28 hopefully

Hope it goes well! Must be uncomfortable in the interim I'd imagine.

I had a friend who's gall bladder went septic on him, he said he got into the emergency room quickly with almost no wait as they said his screams were upsetting the other patients in the waiting room. Hope yours is nowhere near as bad as that, but I've known a few appendix cases where the people were in real pain.

Hope you feel better soon! Heck of a way to spend the holidays.

Beautiful picture Mika, feel like I've seen it before somewhere ;-)