Essential / inessential
Apr. 15th, 2021 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomust- On Monday, shops not deemed essential were allowed to reopen in England. I listened to the radio news, which included descriptions of queues outside shoe shops, and children in the queue having their feet measured on the spot. Really, children's shoes are not essential? We should send them to school barefoot, in the snow? Perhaps we should, but the risk is that we would send them instead in shoes they have outgrown...
- I wasn't tempted to rush out and shop, but I did place an order with Ocado, and was wrong-footed by the unavailability of midweek deliveries: Tuesday evening, or Friday evening? Neither was convenient, but by Friday we would be running out of essentials, so I opted for Tuesday, and hoped the delivery would arrive at the end of its allotted slot, and not clash with the Zoomed talk we planned to attend.
- Time was tight, but it really was essential to defrost the fridge before refilling it, so on Monday evening I set that going. Memo to self: durham_rambler will never notice that the fridge needs defrosting and take action, but he enjoys the challenge of the ice, and will do more than his share of the work once I take the initiative. Task completed within 24 hours, and the fridge was reinstated by dinner time on Tuesday.
- Which is just as well, because our Ocado driver was running early: he arrived before the start of his slot, so instead of the talk being at the questions stage, the speaker was still in full flood. I had to check that there was nothing frozen (even the day after ordering, I can't always remember what made it into the final order, and what didn't) but having done that, left it until after the talk before unpacking. A quick grouse about that: Ocado seems to have completely given up the pretence of sorting the shopping - three packets of cereal were in three different places...
- Today is the third Thursday of the month, which is Farmers' Market day. Or not: we went, but without great hopes, and how right we were - there were very few stalls there. I bought some bread, and some (orange and sea buckthorn) marmalade, and thought about buying some soap but decided not to. Inside the covered market I bought smoked salmon from the fishmonger, a book from the bookstall (I had been confident that I would get a copy of Richard Osman's detective story there, and I was right) and a bottle of interesting (Uruguayan) wine from the wine shop. And there were pens and a notebook from Paperchase. I'd call that a very satisfactory mixture of essentials and inessentials.
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Date: 2021-04-17 10:18 am (UTC)Clothes buying on-line is not too difficult, but shoes are impossible to guess at the fit without trying on.
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Date: 2021-04-17 04:59 pm (UTC)Luckily, I have worn shoes so little in the last year that I won't be wearing out the current pair just yet. But children outgrow them...