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[ladymuck]

Some random posted doughnuts to my address.

They didn't travel at all well and they never put a return address on the courier label so I can't advise the sender that they didn't reach their intended recipient.

I've never seen so much blue icing

Binned.

[NickFitz]

The recycling crew have been early today, so a quality orange bin has been securely corralled in the back yard

[ladymuck]

Suddenly feels rather dark in my little office.

Had an early lunch of a hot dog in one of those 'sub' rolls. I didn't have breakfast and I'll be in meetings 1230 - 1530 so 1145 seemed like a good time to eat.

[eek]

At this moment I should be preparing to catch the train to the CUK Xmas do

[SueEllen]

Afternoon.

The sky is blue and it's Friday.

[NickFitz]

At this moment I should be preparing to catch the train to the CUK Xmas do

Same

[NickFitz]

I need to nip down to Sainsbury's so I can forget something I needed and have to go to the Co-op for it instead

[NickFitz]

Sainsbury's nipped to. The car fired up with vigour, and although it's only been three nights and not so cold, this tends to confirm my suspicion that the problem was a duff battery and not a parasitic drain. But I'll give it a bit longer and check again

At the shop I finally succumbed to the lure of the SmartShop™, which I kept meaning to do with the app, but my phone can't get a signal inside the store. But I had a £5 off voucher if I did it, so I got one of the handset thingies instead. It's kind of convenient, but I'm used to packing things a certain way at the till once I've got everything and can map it all out in my head, so I need to adapt to that. Also, the checkout procedure is mildly confusing due to unclear instructions, but that's only a problem once I suppose

Mince pies were obtained, in a vague nod to the season of the year

[ladymuck]

Official fun due to start in 10 minutes.

I think it's time to crack open the Baileys.

[NickFitz]

Sainsbury's nipped to.

While I was standing looking at the varieties of sugar (which is at one end of the baking aisle), a store "colleague" asked me if I was the gentleman who'd been asking her about desiccated coconut. I said I wasn't, and she carried on her way. Shortly after I passed her explaining something about a desiccated coconut shortage to said gentleman; he was Afro-Caribbean and about four inches taller than me. I hadn't realised that a simple blue facemask could do such an effective job of concealing my identity that she mistook me for him