Jinxed Sunday

So far today my poor DAH (Delinquent Annoying Husband) has not had a good day ..... in fact I think for him the day has been jinxed !


We got up reasonably early for a Sunday - he was up about 8ish and I followed about 9ish. He had intended to cook a full English breakfast for us all (himself, me and his son) but, being the rubbish wife that I am, I had used the eggs baking rock cakes yesterday and had forgotten to take the bacon out of the freezer. We also had no sausages and he had finished of the bread the night before so BASICALLY - he gave up on cooking brekkie. 


However, he offered to take us out for breakfast and then asked for suggestions on where to go !


We had already decided that we needed to do a little shopping today - we needed some special light bulbs (for my weird lights in the living room) - we needed to get a new pond pump - and Greg wanted to get a new coffee machine. To my mind that meant 3 locations - Sam's Home Care (our local hardware/garden place), if they didn't do the pond pump then we would have to pop to Seasons (a local garden centre) - and for the coffee machine, probably Sainsburys. 


Soooo ..... my first suggestion was to have a Sainsburys breakfast - its basic but actually quite nice - you get "what it says on the tin" ! 


Then I realised that Sainsburys in Kempston does not open until 11am - strike that one off the list ! We decided to perhaps go to Seasons to see if they did brekkie and if they didn't we would pop to Tesco's instead.


Our journey began just after 10am - Sam's Home Care was successful - we got the light bulbs but they did not do pond pumps (we had anticipated this) so we were happy with the first "stop off"


Off to Seasons ...... we got there at about 10.30 ...... they do not open until 11am ..... do we hang around ... OR ... do we get our breakfast & coffee machine & then go back for the pump ??? We decided we would come back ......... off to ONE of the big Tesco's in our local area ........ they did not open until 11am either !! 


OK - well that was still another 20mins so we decided to carry on as we were close to a carvery that served unlimited breakfast .....mmmmm .......  we parked the car and wandered in.


On requesting a seat we were informed that breakfast had just finished ....... at 10.30am !!! 


Arrgghh - we were getting hungry and desperate ....... thankfully the carvery was next door to the Hungry Horse - no problem ..... we will eat there as we KNOW they do ALL DAY breakfast ......... we popped next door ........................................ only to find them SHUT until 11.30am !!!!!


Sunday trading hours were driving us MAD !


I suggested that, as it was nearly 11am anyway, we could go to the OTHER Tesco's (which we were closest to, at this point) and hang about for 5 mins till they opened. 


We reached the car park to see it VERY full - would you believe it - THEY open at 10am ......so we could have gone there first !!! After nearly an hour and 20 miles covered ..... we finally sat down to eat ...... and it was OK - certainly value for money!


We thought while we were there we would look for the coffee maker - none available of the type Greg wanted . We were a little disappointed as we thought Tesco's would have stocked this item but were not overly bothered as we had initially seen the item in Sainsburys on-line. So we headed to the other Sainsburys - the one in Bedford not Kempston.


Grrrrrrr - we got there to find that they too had opened at 10am so we COULD have had brekkie there !!! Even MORE grrrr - they did NOT have the coffee machine we wanted in stock at the moment !!!! 


At this point I was laughing and could not believe that to have breakfast & get the 3 items we wanted had taken us over an hour so far and we had ONLY just achieved success with breakfast & one item !


Off to the retail park and Argos - they would be the saviour - we enthusiastically entered the shop - we could get the pond pump AND the coffee maker here .......... we found them both in the catalogue - I entered the catalogue number for the pond pump into the "in stock" machine ............. NOT CURRENTLY IN STOCK !!!!!! ............................I entered the number for the coffee machine ......................NOT CURRENTLY IN STOCK!


Greg was beginning to think there was a conspiracy against him ....... not to worry - we were at the Retail Park and could pop into Pets at Home for the Pond Pump ................................... 


"No sorry sir we don't do pond fish equipment here - just things for aquarium fish" 


Greg's son and I were absolutely falling about laughing !!!!!


BACK to the garden centre ................. Seasons ................ YEAH we got a pond pump (although I was not sure it was the right size but by this point I did not want to jinx it any further).


All that was left now (after 2 and a half hours) was the coffee machine - CURRYS would do it - - - - - - off to another Retail park  " No sorry sir ....................................."


Greg was now at the end of his rope - he said ONE more place - Comet - ................................


"No. Sorry sir ...................!"


He gave up .......... and bought a slightly different make - probably just as good and even better ... a little cheaper too!


Greg's son and I simply suggested that when we finally got home that he do nothing else for the rest of the day as that too would obviously be jinxed !!!


And I quietly thought to myself ......................... I would have ordered the pond pump and coffee machine on-line, saving the confusion of Sunday trading hours and saving nearly 30 miles of petrol and 3 hours of traipsing around ............... 


Although truth be known - it was actually quite fun !!!!!