The Various Uses of Rubber
I have ordered a new pair of wellies from Amazon for the daily walk to school. My current hardly-at-all-old pair has developed a fissure along one toe. I only noticed this when I was wading along the stream that flows brownly past bobbing Argos bags en route to the afternoon pick up, and I was not pleased. They are a glamorous pair with pink spots and white swirls, bought to ease my daughter's pain in ackowledging a wellie-wearing, stream-paddling mother in public. I now distrust wellies with spots and swirls, so order a safe-looking green pair. Better to be waterproof than glamorous. Royal Mail gets them as far as my door, thrusts through a 'Sorry you were out' card, and promptly loses them. Amazon is sympathetic and dispatches a replacement pair. This also makes it to my door and again a card is left. This time I decide to pick them up in person from the Royal Mail depot. The man behind the glass screen makes off with my delivery card and probably has a cup of tea and
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ReplyDelete'What do you think to my new purchase? I kept the receipt just incase....'
ReplyDelete"They were just giving them away, with a note saying 'allergic to water but feed regularly'"
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ReplyDeleteAnd here you see the absolute pinnacle of Swedish design: the boy
ReplyDeleteI told him if he carried on i'll be returnin him to where i brought him!
ReplyDeleteoops!
ReplyDeleteAS his mother lowered him into the "high bag", he didn't have the heart to tell her he had said he wanted and "I-pad".................
She was very glad she had kept the receipt!
ReplyDeletethe red eyed monster I purchased suddenly came to life... I hope he has an off switch!
ReplyDeleteTo safeguard Sally's reputation, her above remarks were not too hot to handle; they removed because they inadvertantly named the children.
ReplyDeleteHeard of thinking outside the box? Well this is thinking inside the bag!
ReplyDeleteA boy in a bag - the perfect gift for Christmas
ReplyDeleteWith these red eyes and this blue bag I can travel back in time.
ReplyDeleteThe robot clone he'd bought himself would come in handy when he didn't want to go to school. Only the eyes threatened to give him away.
ReplyDeleteYou can get anything on eBay these days
ReplyDeleteAnd look what came free with it!
ReplyDeleteWe've all heard of Cat in a Bag, but the new fan-dangled 2011 thing is, Boy in a Bag, you heard it here first, get your's quick before the 2012 rush...
ReplyDeleteThank God it wasn't BOGOF!
ReplyDeleteMum's returning me...apparently I'm faulty!
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