Surprise...

Really nice warm day here today, so we went over to Aintree to the Sainsburys for our Friday outing. The racing has well finished now, so the traffic is much quieter. The other reason was that V had got a coupon for 5p a litre off petrol so he wanted to use that I think. £40 that cost me..but since he uses the car to drive me to appointments etc., that's onluy fair. I remember when I started driving, petrol was 3/6 a gallon!!!! Then when i finished work, we used to put around £20 at a time in..now it is £40..I wonder how much further it can go. Gosh 3/6 a gallon, that was about 18p !! you would be hard pressed to buy a chocolate bar for that now.
Bit disappointed with Sainsbury's they don't seem to have so much stock as usual, and a few things were fairly expensive too. No stir fries, and the salad that I wanted was really expensive, more so that Waitrose, and that is saying something.
We had a lovely coffee in their large car park though so that saved us a load of money.
Odd event happened..we were sitting there enjoying our coffees when a teen rode over to a car parked quite a bit away from where we were. he went to the side window, and we looked at each other and said.."Oh Oh " thinking that it looked like a drugs pick up. When, lo and behold, a man got out of the car, went round to the boot, and took out about two small bicycles, and a couple of other kids got out of the car. They all started riding around..all quite innocent. Not what we were thinking at all. Just us with suspicious minds!! They were taking advantage of a nice big empty safe car park!!
Another thing that surprised me today, was when we were having a small coffee after our lunch and getting a glimpse of "Flog It". There was an older man on that who was selling a lovely diamond ring that had belonged to his grandmother ..it was a wartime german story, But he also had a sword with him, and he told a tale of being a balancing act in Butlins all over, years ago. He used to balance the sword on his nose!! You would never think it to look at him, he just looked like a grandfather type. Another older man came on a bit later, who was a teacher of synchronised swimming!!! So many stories behind peoples faces...
Tonight we are having:
Vegetable pasties
gravy
Rice puddings..a real treat.