Struggle yet again with the trolley coin as I have done all the other times I go to Aldi (which fyi is one of 3 as you know supermarkets here in Canberra, Sigh. Do miss Sainsbury, any how)
So after struggling with the trolley coin (they don't have baskets here presumably so you buy more or don't pinch them? I managed to get the trolley with the worse wheels ever and just ever so slightly bumping into some poor person walking past (I had no control over this thing) I manage to get inside.
Within seconds of me looking at all the rice cakes (remember the tuna episode ...... it was a bit like that but this time I just opted for barbecue flavour and not one of each) I hear a "miss, miss, miss"
I turn around and there is a very small oriental man standing there beaming at me, I felt like a celebrity and thought yup, he's read my blog, he recognises me. In my head I'm mentally thinking now how good does the bouffant look today. As I'd just finished work and hadn't washed it or brushed it since Saturday (more on this later too) I felt pretty confident that I was probably not worthy of a photo but who am I to disappoint my fan!
So I stand and beam back at him and then glance down to see he's not holding a camera but instead dried milk powder. Hmmmm I though that's a weird present to give your idol, still it's a gift so I'll act great full.
He's now saying miss again A LOT. So still beaming I say "yes" and he then thrusts paper into my hand, ooo I thought he wants an autograph, how awesome, I love signing my name. I'm ready to dive into trusty side pocket (which carries my trusty safety knife WHICH I love and carry around every day and some times sing to it when I'm bored or fed up, I honestly don't know why I haven't had one before. They are the most useful things and I love it) (hmmmm just re read that ... what has my life come to calling my work pocket trusty. Sigh)
Sorry I digress (I have a day off today hence why there is waffling going on).
Back to the paper.... it actually says on there DRIED WHOLE MILK. He's pointing at the paper and then pointing at the dried milk powder he's holding. He starts to nod, so I start to nod. He then says miss a few more times, I still carry on nodding. His wife (I'm assuming it was his wife, they looked too old to be boyfriend and girlfriend) started saying miss as well, so I'm nodding at her while still beaming. He is still pointing at the milk powder in his hand and nodding so I say .. "yes that's the one" total look of confusion from him and his wife. So then I start to nod again, and they start to nod. She then points to the semi skimmed milk powder. "Oh no I say, you don't want that one" and start to shake my head so they start to shake their head.
He then points again to the paper and the milk he's holding but also to the semi skimmed milk, I assume he wants to know the difference.
So in my best English /Spanish /Scottish /Irish /American accent I tell him one is whole milk and reiterate this by moving my hands about a foot apart and semi I go on to tell him is half and move my hands down. He looks confused so I then tell him "semi is not whole, not good" I'm drawing a blank here, so I thought I'd show him by pointing at the whole milk and standing get very tall and straight then pointed to the semi and crouching down low then beaming up at him.
They did NOT look impressed and did not keep smiling, instead held on to whole milk powder and walked off.
Well I thought. That's the last time I demonstrate the difference between whole and semi milk powder.
I also thought he forgot to take my picture. Sob.
Grabbed picnic stuff and have the usual random conversation with the till boy and quickly run as fast as the stupid trolley with the worse wheels in the world will let me and jump in my car to go home.
The picnic ..... at lunch time yesterday it was boiling and I know it was boiling because I was getting boiled while sitting in my car eating my banana. (I curse my deputy for buying a car with a metal gear knob. Burns my hand in the summer and freezes it in the winter) that's where the brain wave came for a picnic.
We drove to the lake by us (the one where Charlotte fainted) and all murmured on the way it was looking at bit grey. But dismissed it as hey we're in Australia it's supposed to be sunny ALL the time.
Got to picnic site and headed for the picnic bench sat down and ...... it was windy, cold and not at all boiling. So we ate our picnic within minutes laughed at how every one was in coats and hoods while we were sat there in shorts, tee shirts and flips flops. (They were probably laughing at us actually)
Got home had the pimms I took with us to drink and look sophisticated (having had a childhood of picnics on the side of the road regardless of traffic hammering past us and where ever we were at 1pm exactly the car HAD to be stopped and out came the cardboard box which held warm cheese sandwiches and if we were lucky pickled onion monster munch crisps) so I feel I have to provide our children with happier memories.... hence the pimms and being sophisticated! I even took houmous with us which they all hate bar me and some brie. See... very sophisticated!
Now some interesting news .... I braved another half head of foils and a cut. For once I actually got what I asked for and what I was promised. The only thing I didn't get, was charged the amount I thought it would be. I can't tell you what it is because I'm still trying to get my head around the price. But let's say in shoe value I could have had another 4 or 5 pairs sent over from the UK. Gulp.
If I'd have known how much it was going to be I would've drunk more of their coffee. At least I caught up on all the celebrity news of Australia. ... just a shame I don't know any of them. Hey ho. (The reason I didn't brush or wash my hair since then was because she made it look amazing, not at all bouffanty or like I was 105). It's been washed today though and I deliberated about posting a picture but it's erm a little wild and a little crazy so thought I'd save myself the embarrassment.
Just to please you, on my day off I planned to sunbathe and chill in my garden (which still has no snakes.... yay) but it's raining. So off to guru me thinks in a bit for a coffee and a random chat!
Xx
