Bargain!

(affects Klingon voice) "Today is a good day to shop!" Or rather yesterday was. I needed a bit of cheering up so I tootled into Manchester for a bit of retail therapy. My mum gave me some money the other week for my birthday and I hadn't spent it so I headed to M&S to buy a top I'd seen. I was prepared for the fact that M&S have a tendency to stock things for about 2 weeks and then you never see them again (I'd seen a gorgeous pair of shoes that disappeared without a trace nary a week later). I dutifully dragged myself numerous times round the store with no luck and was about to give up when I spotted said top all on its lonesome on a sale rack. Size 14 it was - which was slightly smaller than I wanted. There weren't any others so I went to try it on. And by golly it fitted. A snip at £45 - or so I thought. Did I dare hope that it was still at a sale price? There were no sale labels on it. Took it to the checkout and ker-ching! the nice lady asked me to stump up the princely sum of £15.

I love it when that happens.

But oh dear, that meant I'd have to look for more beautiful things to spend my wad, sorry, pennies on. Bimbling into the Triangle to get a coffee from Caffe Nero I came face to face with heaven itself - a Lambretta shop I never knew existed. I have to explain that I've been looking for a nice Lambretta top for ages and come up empty handed. Not so yesterday. Oh dear again, they had a sale on. I didn't find my ultimate top (with the target symbol on) but bought a very nice t-shirt and a cute little hoodie for £33. What a day!

After all that excitement I spent the evening in the company of a Southern Comfort & lemonade, watching 'I'm a Z-list Celeb and a Bit Perturbed'. I'm not sure about Tony Stockwell's abilities. As soon as someone said they were picking up on something he'd say he was picking up on it too. Adele 'Bad cat man' Silva said she was picking up on children in the fuel store. "Oh yes I'm picking up children too..." says Tony. "Was it something to do with the plague?" asked Jeff Nobody. "Yes I'm getting the plague too..." says Tony. "I'm getting annoyed by a stupid tosser." says Terry Christian. "Yes, I'm getting that too..." retorts Tony. Hmmmmm, perhaps he is psychic after all?