I am knackered! I've just been doing shopping for the sick and the elderly but some of the items on the shopping lists are mind blowing!
First up '1litre of fresh prune juice' where the hell do you find that? Next '6 chocolate puddle duck cookies' what the heck is a puddle duck cookie? Is it on the meat aisle or the biscuit aisle? Next on the list was '6 pink ladies' what are these? Something you put in a boudoir? Eventually I thought they might be pre mixed cocktails so I searched the booze aisle only be eventually told they were apples!! The next few items were no problem; steak pies, bacon etc but then came a real mind blower: ' 1 packet of Mr Brain's Faggots' it said after I read it twice, this must be a very un PC wind up so I just ignored that one. Bread ok, butter no problem then '3 bottles of Cabernet Savignon Mud House' what the heck I thought as I haven't clue about wine and don't know a cabernet Savignon from Shiraz so up and down the half empty drink aisle I went looking for the mud house wines assuming a mud house wine was probably a bit murky , maybe a mix of red and white? I reckon I did my full weeks quota of exercise up and down the wine aisle looking for mud house sauvignon blanc. Eventually an assistant appeared (about as hard to find as a packet of paracetamol) and told me that mud house was a make not a type of wine and they were sold out as it was on special offer. I swore. I fully expected 6 dozen toilet rolls to be on the list which I thought might be handy after drinking 1 litre of prune juice but thankfully there were no loo rolls on the list, just as well as there were none anyway. Finally ' vegan hot cross buns' at which point I gave up and checked out, I've done my duty for the day although I shudder to think what might be on tomorrows lists. We volunteer shoppers deserve an 8 o'clock clap as well as our NHS heros.