A stressful shop

 Been to Aldi this morning to do our monthly store cupboard stock up shop, it was quite stressful with some of husband's obsessions and compulsions in full flow.  And when we got home too - I have repeatedly asked husband to leave the unpacking to me and not to put anything away.  The reason being, he just grabs things and shoves them away anywhere, in any cupboard where there's a space, having no regard for like going with like, or putting new stuff at the back and pulling older stuff forward.  Drives me nuts, I spend ages looking for things and having to sort out the cupboards after he's done.  I went to the loo when we got home, only to find he'd already unpacked and put away 1 1/2 bags whilst I was in the loo.  And this was after I'd asked him, once again, as we arrived home to let me put everything away.  It's a compulsion with him, he just can't seem to help himself.  Or he could be doing it just to annoy me!!  (I don't think he is, although it does annoy me!).  I'm relaxing in my room now with a coffee to calm my nerves 😂😒

I buy enough store cupboard stuff each time to last a full month....for the next few months I'm now buying a few extras on top of the normal amount, in order to build up an extra stock for when we get rid of the car in summer.  All the extras are going in 2 large plastic lidded boxes under my bed.  I was pleased with the amount I spent - £89 for 6 bags worth of goods, a month's stock plus the extras, I'd expected it to be around £100.  I wish there was an Aldi in Minehead - there's a Lidl instead, which I'm not so keen on, although I do buy a few things in there from time to time.

We stopped off at the garden centre on the way, I got 2 bags of early potato sets.  No banana shallot sets, although they did have some round ones which I didn't want.  They had banana shallot seeds though, so I got a packet of those instead.  It's forecast to be sunny and dry (hooray!!) on Saturday, albeit colder, so we'll be able to get that tree we bought last month planted.  We'll cover up the beds where the veg seeds are going, to warm up the soil before we sow the seeds next month.

My cleaner popped round yesterday afternoon to say that the next time she's due, she'll actually be on holiday (she'd forgotten!), so she's arranged for a colleague to come and do the job instead.  I've already met this colleague, she cleans for one of our neighbours, she's also very nice.  On the subject of neighbours, we've been told that new neighbours, a married couple, are moving into the empty bungalow across the road within the next couple of weeks, that'll be good (hopefully).