. Spring has sprung!To town this a.m., a rare foray these days. They are tarmacking the high street roadway, and the pavements as well, so fairly chaotic, but I park at the "bottom" of the town anyway so no problems. Around 75% of the shops are either empty or closed because of Covid, so little going on in town, and few people about. I started at the building society to bank my tax refund cheque following our PPI claim - it has only taken HMR&C six months to process it; I have submitted all the relevant figures to them twice and even given them a detailed calculation of what they owed me, despite which they still got the repayment amount wrong
. So I'll cut my losses, sometimes it's simply not worth continuing to bang your head against a brick wall.....Then to the Polish shop for more sauerkraut, fried beetroot, fried red cabbage and polony - I must say they are extremely well stocked and remarkably cheap. Then to the butchers to restock the freezer, but they had no boneless chicken breasts ("chicken supremes" they call them) which was a disappointment, and I'll have to go back next week, but I did get some lamb steaks (expensive!), pork loin steaks and diced beef, so not a wasted journey.
A quiet afternoon now for Ossie while Mrs O watched the geegees on the box!
Continuing thoughts for Jen and Mr E, and Cruiser, hope you are all coping OK.
Oh and next door's bungalow is "unexpectedly back on the market".
Perhaps Andy and I did put the viewers off after all! 
But I do wonder if it is a case of over-enthusiastic estate agents trumpeting they've "Sold It" when really all they have received is a very tenuous offer ......
