The dreaded self service till experience

 So it could have been the salad that caused my food poisoning....thanks for that, Happy Introvert, it hadn't even occurred to me.  Now I know.  Thinking on it, husband has twice had an upset stomach after eating bagged salads in the past year or so, I wasn't even aware it was a thing.

We went and did a tiny top up shop this morning.....as I only had a basketful, we went through the self service tills.  Husband is a nightmare with these tills - I reminded him to place our shopping bag on the bagging shelf properly.  But, as has been the case before, he left the bag hanging off the edge of the shelf by a couple of inches, so the scanner wouldn't work - first mistake.  Once he'd pushed the bag back, the scanner still wouldn't work - I glanced sideways to find that husband was leaning on the edge of the scanner - mistake no. 2.  Once I could start scanning (when he'd lifted his arm off), he was very slow putting the scanned items in the bag, resulting in the infernal machine announcing "Please place your items in the bagging area" three times in a row 😒.  Don't you just hate being told off by a machine?!  And then, to add insult to injury, I'd bought 2 packs of paracetamol, which meant the blasted light was flashing red and a message on the screen told us we needed to wait for someone to come and verify our ages - husband said, very loudly "Do I look like I'm 14?!".  No, I thought but didn't say, but you're acting like it 😂😒  Hence why I much prefer husband to wait in the car whilst I do the shopping by myself - he insisted on coming into the shop as he wanted to look at something.

It's gone very cold and blowy here again today - in fact it must have been pretty cold overnight as our heating came on in the early hours.  I hope the weather's ok for when our visitors arrive in a week's time.  I'm pretty much all prepared foodwise, just got to go out next Thursday to get some fresh bits for the buffet lunch. 

Husband's side of the family want to go on a steam train trip on one of the weekend days, we won't go with them as we've been on it before a few times and sister isn't that keen on going, so husband, my sis and her friend will do something else.  In any case, although it's a very picturesque journey partly along the coast then travelling inland through very rural areas, being an old heritage railway the carriages are old and decidedly uncomfortable, I had terrible backache for several days after the last time we went on the train.  It is nice watching the steam trains go through the stations though, and I love the sound of them, we can hear them from our bungalow.