h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Went into town today, ostensibly to find some Hallow e'en hairy hands which Rog's son had said he wanted.

We passed Boots, and I said, ooh let me try some reading glasses, I'm finding the small print a bit difficult these days. And we went in and found that reading glasses were over £20, and not that attractive, and Rog said, why dont you get a proper eyetest?

So we called into Vision Express,and they had a slot available that afternoon. And after my eyetest I chose a couple of pairs and they could do them for me in an hour, so we continued our trawl round the shops.

The total haul for the afternoon was:

2 pairs reading glasses
A Vampira dress and wig for me, and a zombie pirate outfit for Rog's son.
Wasabi flavour and sea salt flavour chocolate
A bottle of water (thirsty work, shopping!)
Sensible shoes (blue/ brown German leather clog things)
5 Family Guy T shirts for Rog (they were £2 each in HMV and he cannot resist a bargain)
No hairy hands.

coolio

My haul for today was just drinks, but no less eclectic for that:

One carton of beetroot juice I've taken a strange addiction to
One carton of buttermilk
One bottle of poncy vanilla frappacino stuff (wasn't very nice)
One bottle of rose flavoured lemonade

But I'm not taking them all in the same glass...

interesting haul there

I just bought an eclectic blanket.

I blame predictive text.

Welcome to the h2g2 shopping channel.

Beetroot juice? Is this, as the commenters on Slactivist would phrase it, a thing?

TRiG.

It's a thing...but a fairly dear one. I'm considering buying a juicer and lots of beetroot instead. If I knew I'd get hooked I'd never have started.

I never realized how addictive it was. All I can say is it must be providing a necessary nutrient or trace element that you crave.

Not sure how Eclectic my purchases across the town were today... I bought ;
six new wooden coat hangers.
6 duck eggs.
a box of washing capsules.
100 meters of upolstrophy yarn/thread (for sewing).
4 kitchen rolls.
another ten pack of AA batterys.
40 cigarettes.
and a Cornish pastey, for lunch... Tommorrow I will buy Nothing... unless I go online

Picked up a matching pirate outfit for the dog......

Now wishing I'd bought a few meters of fabric yesterday whilst in the sewing shop... I was sure I had sufficient large old, but in decent enough condition shirts and old jackets, etc., to make my indistructible cushion cover out of I wonder if the upulstrophy yarn would be strong enough to sew leather... I could always 'reclaim' the leather from the gaggle of old leather jackets sitting in the cupboard under the stairs...