Have you done yours?
I had to go to Tesco for last minute shopping, I thought I would get there early. so as to avoid the crowds.
I arrived at 7.40 am…it was packed,
…thank God I won’t be going out tomorrow to shop,only to deliver some homemade cooked scones to my elderly lady.
I have this nagging feeling that I’ve left something off my shopping list 
Me too, my son informed me of what I’d left out, so off I trundle to Tesco, thinking no one would be there, I was shocked, the car park was full!..
I’m venturing out just now. Bored at home…
Hope you get all that you need, Minx, let us know if the shops were busy?..
I will be going to the Post Office tomorrow - have a parcel to post (not a Christmas Gift) and I need some more stamps for my ‘Thank You’ notes, which I will make today ready to write on St Stephen’s Day - when I know what is in all the lovely parcels I have received!
Other than that my shopping is complete.
Sue and I went on tuesday to Tescos and got there at 7am. Did the usual fortnight shop with 2 large wire baskets full, virtually empty when we went in but started to fill up as we left
We went to M&S food hall yesterday at our usual time and the place was rammed; people were even queueing outside to get in. It took forever to get the bits and bobs we normally buy what with all the customers pushing big trolleys round and staff refilling shelves everywhere. Thank God we’ve done with food shopping until next Wednesday.
I’m just not going. We had a Tescos delivery on Monday and what we haven’t got now, we’ll have to do without
Many years ago, in M&S in Oxford St, I saw two very posh old ladies have a physical fight over the last turkey crown 
I did the weekly Tesco shop late Tuesday evening, expecting it to be quiet, it wasn’t!
If I did forget anything we have a handy Co-op corner shop, which has also a sub post office, just up the road & around the corner I can go to, it’s a little gold mine too. About the only advantage of having houses new built, in walking distance to me. Except I don’t walk there I get someone to drive me there. 
Shops were busy. I spent most of my time playing dodgems with the virus - hopefully I won!!
Christmas Eve soon, I can’t wait to see my daughter 
When I told my brother on the phone I had gone into town today, he asked ‘oh, what was it like?’ I got as far as saying M&S was full of elderly people with sticks and trolleys, walking slowly, and then had to listen to him for a good 10m about how their roads and shops are so busy! 
. I did manage eventually to get back to what I was saying.
So, yes, I did some shopping in Asda two days ago, getting petrol, then into town today, getting bread, milk, parsnips, red cabbage, few other bits, and boxes of biscuits to give to my niece and nephews on XD, (with some tubs of sweets, already bought). And a box of M&S biscuits for sis.
Plenty of milk gone into the freezer.
The small shops near me would be open on the holidays but I try not to buy anything in there. One charges 85p for a pint of milk.
My niece got to Morrisons at 6am yesterday and was home at 7.20 having bought everything she needs for her family for Xmas. She said it was empty and so easy to find everything.
One year I had an hour to kill on Xmas Eve while I dropped my Mum off at church. They were selling fresh turkeys for £6and turkey crowns for £4 so I bought both and froze them and all the veg was literally pence. This was about an hour before they closed.
Don’t worry, there are no special days anymore, you will only have to wait 24 hours before restocking. 
My Sainsbury’s grocery delivery was slotted for 10-11.00pm this evening … I’m pleased to say they turned up at 8.30PM, excellent service! 
Trying not to re-stock 
My son did ours, he queued for 15 minutes for 2kg tiger prawns in a queue that stretched out to the car park. The shop handled it well with extra staff.
A few days ago they were $27/kg, today they were $50/kg, that’s Christmas for you
Bruce, the Son might have got them cheaper had he tried the local “Prawn Broker”.
You wouldn’t say that if you were at work till 9.30pm, and you got home to find all your shopping on the doorstep. 
I knew I’d forget something, the clotted cream for a few scones I had cooked for myself,…I am not going out today, so I will have to make do with whipped double cream.
