....and an extra plate?

Last night we spent considerable time online trying to find a new light fixture for our living room. The one we have now hangs down too low (used to be over a dining table) and it gets in the way of people near the piano. We have never particularly liked it but the array of light fittings here are very unimaginative. They all look like boobs hanging from the ceiling. We don't want boobs on our ceiling so we found something different that we did like. Tiffany style glass semi flush ceiling lights. Mostly it seems you can only order them online but Huffle found a shop nearby that sold them, so this morning we braved the -9 (-16 windchill) thinking it was considerably warmer than previous days and went to the said shop.

Fabulous ice patterns on the window

Huffle drove us to the lighting shop. Smallest said he thought they couldn't possibly make any money because of all the electricity they must use keeping all the lights lit. He made a good point! We were welcombed by a young woman who told us they don't keep the Tiffany style lights in the store and that we would have to order them from a catalogue or the website (which we could have done at home without having to come out!!!!). We were also told that buying online meant it was Final Sale so if we didn't like it when we saw it, TOUGH! We wandered around the shop looking at all the lights just in case we saw something we liked. We didn't. The woman told us Tiffany lights were old fashioned and there was no market for them! In the end we decided we would just order the one we originally liked and a salesman asked if he could help whilst clutching an IPad. Huffle told him we wanted to order a light and he asked if it was in the shop. NO! He was useless and just stared at us and pointed to the computer. Huffle got annoyed and walked away and I said DO YOU WANT US TO USE YOUR COMPUTER OR JUST DO IT AT HOME? He pretty much told us to go home and use ours which was weird but we walked away. Great customer service!!!! NOT!

On we went to get some lunch and ended up in the chippy again due to lack of inspiration and minimal places open. This ime it was very nice but the waitress asked us if we needed an extra plate when I asked for five haddocks. We looked around as if we would find someone sitting with us we had forgotten about. She thought she had counted six people and said maybe they would come and pay for the bill at the end. They didn't!

From there we drove to the harbour again as I thought it might be better for walking in seeing as the temperature was considerable warmer. If was horrific and so much colder which makes no sense. The water was fiercely choppy and still icy but the wind was biting and I really hurt my fingers trying to take photos without my gloves. The kids gave in and sat in the car and then we all sat in too. It was just too cold. We sat in the car with the heater on until we were warmer and then I realised I had dropped the lens cap on my phone telescope. Smallest thought he had seen it so Huffle went out again to find it. Moo followed him and then Smallest went out too but no one found it.

We gave up and came home. I thought it seemed warmer at home so Moo and Huffle decided to go for a walk with me. We only got to the end of the drive when we realised it was just as cold. We shovelled some snow instead and came in for some lovely hot tea.

Small decided today he wanted a trifle so Smallest and Moo made some jelly this morning and this afternoon Small and Moo made a blancmange (Moo bought us a multi packet about four years ago so it may be a little out of date but surely there's nothing in it that can go off?).

1970's inspired trifle minus the lady fingers

The boys all played FIFA and the rest of us played Skip-Bo. We all had a game of Agricola early evening. It was a good but tough brain draining game. Small, of course, won!

The boys went to bed a bit earlier. It's going to snow tonight through to the morning but it will be warmer.

 

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