Kate's blog: Lucky Packet

So this is just an assortment of random events/things that have amused me but I forgot to add into my other posts....

I went grocery shopping yesterday. It's the easiest way to entertain me at the moment. There's just such a huge variety of food and so much prepackaged stuff. Anyway, I was in the (enormous) fresh fruit and veg section when I heard thunder. I thought I was dreaming! Then I noticed that the light on top of the one open fridge thing of fresh veges was flashing. The next thing this Dad calls his two little girls and says "Girls - come quick, its going to rain!" And sure enough it did. Mini sprinklers between the vegetables started spraying out a fine mist of water (and all the while the thunder continued). I have never seen anything quite as entertaining in a supermarket before! Why that section of vegetables was special and deserved to be watered while the one right next to it did not - I have no idea!

Earlier this week Sarah and I went shopping for the final things we needed for our apartment - like everything you need in a kitchen! The basic idea when I moved in was that I only needed to get stuff for my bedroom - she said she had everything else. Then she discovered she'd left all her kitchen stuff at her ex-boyfriend's and hence the reason for the shopping trip. I'd already moved into my room and discovered that I had more space than anticipated to decided that I wanted to get a chair for the corner by the window. We were in Target (the most amazing store that literally sells everything! And it's cheap - just not as cheap as Walmart) and I saw a chair that looked really cool. The easiest way to describe it is as a half sphere on a metal frame. It was on special and looked comfy but there wasn't one set out that you could try (the whole chair folds up into a carry bag). So Sarah and I decided that it was rather daft to buy a chair you hadn't even sat in so we unpacked the chair and set it up in the isle in the store!