Shopping Frenzy!!

Shopping Frenzy!!

It was quite chilly on Saturday morning so I found a nice ‘Woolly’ (as we say in Devon) to wear which had been stored in the pink ‘Hello Kitty’ wardrobe (Yes – I know – it is the only furniture other than a wobbly bookcase and sofa bed that I managed to retrieve from my ‘train wreck’ marriage) . When I put on the pale blue cardigan, which I have not worn since last year I found the sleeves stretch right over my hands and beyond my finger-tips by about 3 inches!! This is very puzzling and I am very worried that my arms are shrinking! I have read that people shrink, as they get older and this could be the start of that process. What do you think?

The sleeves kept dipping into my morning mug of Aldi “Hot Beefy Drink” and even trailing into the bowl of the “Vanilla Cushions” – which is a yummy breakfast cereal by the way (contains 10 gm of sugar and 15 gms fat per 30 gm serving – they are advertised by Aldi as ‘Now Low In Salt!’). By the time I had finished eating I was food-spattered, which is odd even for me at 8.30 in the morning. As I have no other sweater I had to rinse the sleeve ends under the Hot Water Geyser, and then leave it to dry for a while on the back of the ‘Black Faux Leather Revolving Bar Stool’ – which I recently purchased from Lidls –(What an exciting store that is!!)

Half an hour later it was still dripping wet, and some of the colour from the ‘Faux Leather’ had mysteriously transferred itself to the cardigan. I hit on the brain wave of ironing it dry. I think some value can be had from this experience if I can pass on the urgent tip that 100% nylon cardigans cannot be safely ironed. At least you dear readers will not repeat this ignominious and humiliating experience. I left the window open to dispel the stench of burnt nylon and then headed down to the ‘Castle Point Shopping Centre', the home of a variety of modern retail outlets and all styles of eateries to restock on the cardigan front.

I should not be left alone in such places as I am afraid I went on a spending spree!! Many people have discussed the credit crisis – well now I know how it originated as I am now a part of it!

I brought a large rag rug in coffee brown and a small rag rug in blue and red, a bucket, a tube of ‘Smarties’ for Geoffrey the midget Push-Me-Pull-You, some scales, and now in a kind of frenzy - a Chinese Lantern style light shade in Bright Blue and a nice cardigan in lime green from ‘Burtons Menswear’ (A very up market shop!! Mysteriously it was in the remaindered section- where I also found a musical Christmas tie that plays jingle bells!!). I also was tempted by a new triangular cheese grater, an inflatable picture frame, and a kit to build a plastic internal combustion engine! Laden down with these purchases I set off home!

Well, Geoffrey was delighted with his smarties, and the scales are fine – (I like to make ‘Mister Men Fairy Cakes’ from cake mixes and scales are useful for baking I am told). To my surprise I do not have enough floor space for both rugs, I may have to use them in rotation. Also to my surprise the Coffee coloured one still showed up the coffee stains on it which I did as a test!!

The bucket I placed under the ‘bathroom leak’ as intended. The drip makes a loud ‘Plop!’ every 20 seconds or so. The cheese grater is excellent and I grated all the cheese in the fridge – as practise. The amusing musical tie is a present for Mr Frobisher – who needs some style tips I think, and I left the engine model for Sunday!! When I put up the blue lampshade it did not as I expected produce a lovely blue light. Rather it allowed no light out at all, and it is almost completely dark in here! I have a sexy new picture of the purple haired one (sighs) which I am now exhibiting in the inflatable frame! That at least was a great success!

BUT!! The new lime green cardigan has the same huge long sleeve issue as the one I burnt! (Which it occurs to me I can wear as a ‘Tank top’ – waste not want not!!)
Whichever way I look at it I am sure my arms have shrunk!! Can anyone advise!?