Shopping and lunch at the pub.

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Today we went shopping and had lunch at the pub. I got up at 7:00am to encourage Mum to get ready quicker so we could be out by 10:00am, because I know it takes my Mum a long time to get ready. In the end we were out of the door at 10:10am, which wasn't too bad. We walked round the top path round Stowe Pool again. Mum saw a friend from Church and stopped chatting for a few moments. And we saw two dogs chasing the geese. We managed to get to the pub by about 11:30am. We both had a large vegan breakfast and a lemon and lime. It was very nice. My Mum went to the toilet in the pub and she was taking a long time. Then a guy came up and said, "Was there someone else with you?" and I said, "Yes," and he said, "Well she was stuck on the toilet. I think she's managed to get up now though." So I went up to check and she was fine, so I went to the toilet myself. Afterwards my Mum told me that when she couldn't get off the loo, she managed to use my walking stick that I had leant her to undo the latch on the door so she could shout someone to help her off the toilet! She came back to the seat and finished off her lemon and lime which I made sure the fella didn't take when he came to collect the plates. Mum said she wished we could go out for lunch or something without there being some kind of disaster or mishap! Then we went to the Oxfam shop to give my donations. They were in a big bag that got stuck in the trolley and it needed a good yank to get them out! Next we went to the Halifax and Mum transferred some money from her passbook account to her cheque book account and also took out some cash. After that we went to Holland and Barrett where Mum got some liquorice, some sugar free sweets, some sugar free chocolate and some sugar free chocolate chip cookies, and I got a large bottle of Kombucha. Then we went and sat on the bench outside Holland and Barrett. There was a pink stuffed toy thing on top of the post box there that someone had left. People were talking about it and pointing and laughing! We ate a few of Mum's sugar free sweets. Next we went to Rileys and got some pears, a whole cucumber (the half ones are too small), some lettuce, some sweets for my step-dad and some sugar free Marie type biscuits for my Mum. After that we went to Wilkos. My Mum was treating me to a pair of magnifying glasses as a late birthday present. We also got some bird seed for the birds in our garden. I wanted to get some LR1130 batteries but we couldn't get any. They just had LR44. Mum wanted to get a defuzzer, to defuzz our clothes when they've got bubbles on them but we couldn't find one of those either. Then Mum was going to enquire about getting a walker for when she's out and about but when we got to the mobility shop she couldn't see any looking through the window. We could see mobility scooters and recliner chairs and stuff like that but not walkers. That, plus the fact that there was quite a few people in and it said it closed at 4:00pm and it was already a quarter past, meant my Mum didn't bother going in. So instead we headed straight to Iceland where I got 3 lots of sea bass (3 for £10, or £5 each), and Mum got some mini sausage rolls, some lamb burgers and some other stuff. After that we headed for home. First we went past where the old auction house used to be, because I wanted to show Mum that it really had been demolished to make way for retirement homes. All the walls of the retirement homes have been built now, in bricks that look very red, and they just need the roofs putting on. Shouldn't be too long till they're finished. So we walked round Stowe Pool on the top path again, and sat on a bench for a bit. Actually we sat on 2 benches, but because the first was in the sun we moved to one a bit further down that was in the shade. We eventually got home at approx 6:30pm, and I unpacked the trolley while sneaking peeks at Hollyoaks. After I'd packed everything away I poured a glass of Kombucha and drank it while watching the end of Hollyoaks. After that I watched The One Show. It had Noel Fitzpatrick, the Supervet, on. He was talking about a stage show he's going to be doing where he will talk about some of the patients he's had in his surgery and the love bond that people have with their animal companions. He said if more people could learn to love animals then maybe we could also learn to love each other. He's a lovely guy that Noel Fitzpatrick. After I'd watched The One Show I washed up while Emmerdale was on. How was your day? Picture: the pink stuffed toy on top of the post box.