Tuesday, 10 December 2013

A successful shop



Yesterday we made a rare shopping trip into Lancaster. The main point of the trip was to go to a butcher who sells game. We duly bought a pack of mixed diced game which is in the process of becoming a casserole for this evening. We also bought some quail which has gone into the freezer for later on.

As these purchases were speedily done, & our search for calendars & diaries was fruitless, we decided to go on to our local PC World to look at computers.

We were pleasantly surprised by the staff at the shop. By repute, PC World has rather surly, ignorant staff, not the most helpful people. This wasn’t the case at Lancaster. They were extremely helpful & quickly sorted out the sort of computer we needed for our services. Needless to say we ended up buying one. Or rather we put in an order for one. We were told it would be Thursday, possibly even next Tuesday before it would be ready with it being so near Christmas.

It has to be admitted it is a nuisance having to attach the laptop to printer & scanner when they’re needed. Our patience is running out. We’re finding so many things that are easier to do on desktop. We seem to have so many scraps of paper covered in scrawl lying around, things we would normally put on computer.

You can imagine my surprise to get a telephone call this morning to say the new computer has arrived. We just have to go into town to collect it.

We have to go to the dentist – just for check-ups – this lunchtime. We were intending to go on & do the food shop afterwards, but maybe now it will be another trip into Lancaster & PC World. We’ll see.


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