First thing this morning, once the troops had arrived (my Mum, eldest Niece and my godson), we all piled into my car for a little shopping trip to Canterbury.
First stop of the day, The Marlow theatre were I bought six tickets for, what I'm expecting to be a rather fantastic and fun-filled night of singing and revelry at, Sing-Along-A-Grease!!! can you imagine just how much fun and laughter this is going to be!!! not one of us can hold a note but we sure can belt a song out!!! I already feel sorry for the rest of the audience!
Once they were safely packed away, off we trotted to the large Art supply shop - Chromos Art Supplies - which is sadly closing down.
The supplies in there were very hit and miss as you can image with a Closing Down Sale, and I had a sad but brief look around (an Art Supply shop is not the place for an impatient eighteen month old). The few bits and pieces I got (3 pots of Screen Printing colours, 2 brushes, a sponge brush, 2 meters of acetate, some silver & gold foil) rung up to £30 - £35 as they had already been reduced by 50% - so I was almost speechless when the lovely man on the till told me that as of today, everything had 90% off and so the total payable was £3.50!!! I was speechless...gave him £5 and told him to keep the change - which he refused. He told me that they are staying open until Saturday. I will almost definitely be making a return trip during the week...there was a large variety of pencils/pastels/paper that I want to take a proper look at and I have another 'artist' friend who is on leave this week who may well be interested.
We then had a slow and steady pleasant drive home and stopped off at the local garden centre (my garden is an empty shell of a garden, bereft of any foliage and flowers!) - we all had a 'free' hot drink curtesy of some vouchers and then had a pleasant mooch to see what plants were looking their best. Being unable to make a purchase (there was nowhere left in the car to put any plants or pots....my Godson's buggy had taken up all the boot space that was available), a mental note was made of what I wanted (its going to cost a bit...!!!) and then we took the Godson round the corner to see the fish in the aquarium - he loves them!
Once I'd dropped everyone back home, I headed out into the garden, and enjoyed the last bit of homemade chocolate cake and a pot of tea for one...with a few art books to while away an hour or so....
afternoon tea in the garden...a perfect start to some well earned annual leave!
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