Renovation Project - We're getting a new cooker but not a settee! - Thursday 11th October
Time to go shopping again, we are going to get some new
furniture today, we are down to one comfy chair and 2 plastic garden chairs,
John managed to break another plastic chair last night, he seems to be on a one
man mission to work his way through our temporary furniture!
We have seen a settee in Conforama, it is lovely and is half
price, we have looked at it a couple of times and not bought it as we wanted to
make sure it was the right one, we don’t want to spend a fortune on furniture
as it is all coming out of our limited budget and if we sell the house, it will
be getting sold with it.
The settee is in Quimper so we drive over and also find the
most amazing modern Aga on special offer, we buy this from the kitchen
department and I astound both myself and John with my language skills, I think
the shop assistant and myself use only approx 5 English words, John looks at me
gobsmacked and asks where did that come from, I have no idea, I still sound a
little bit like a sat nav but the words are all in there, it is all starting to
sink in, which makes me worry about returning to England, will it stay in there
or will I lose it again? I have decided when we are in England I will treat myself to
some new language books, as I have really struggled with the Michael Thomas
system, this is mainly due to the fact that I spend most of my time shouting at
the stupid woman who is on there. I have bought a couple of Osborne children’s
books and these are so much more useful, I would seriously recommend that anybody
trying to learn the language not to be bothered about using children’s books,
they are easy to follow and have a lot of pictures it really does make it much
easier to learn.
We then move over to the furniture department and try to buy
the settee, this is not so good, the guy is very helpful and we get the
delivery date, at this point another assistant shouts over and a lot of
discussion goes on (I struggle to keep up) but I grasp that this is not
possible, the guy is really helpful and tries different ways to explain that we
can’t have it, but goes into so much detail I get lost in the conversation,
luckily 2 other customers over hear and simply explain that all of the settee’s
have been sold, bugger, we left it to long to decide.
We leave and go for a late lunch in Quimper, this is
amazing, the Croque Monsieur is fabulous (this is a French version of a cheese
and ham toastie) which you are probably thinking yuck, but no if you can get to
have one, you should they melt in the mouth.
We do our food shop and return home, I speak to Kayleigh
that night and she asks if there is any chance we can pick up some mini bottles
of champagne for her baby shower, talk about bad timing, so explain we won’t be
going again till next week and will have a look then, but to be honest we have
not seen any small bottles and as you can buy full size bottles of champagne
for only 5 euro’s, not sure if they will do them, there doesn’t seem much
point.
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