Shopping trolley

Posted on October 28, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Basket, cart, disability, Food, Life, Parkinsons, Shopping, shopping trolley, SupermarketLeave a comment

I just went shopping and they have changed the trolleys. They used to be shallow so that you didn’t reach down too far into them. The new ones are small, but deeper. If you want to get shopping out of it you have to reach down into it. Because I have Parkinsons I feel like I’m tipping forward and in danger of falling into the trolley.

If I use a basket I have to use a walking stick and it’s hard to put things into the basket without finding somewhere to put the stick down. Sometimes I hang it off shelves. Also the weight of the basket seems more everytime I shop.

I know this is a first world dilemma and I should be grateful to have supermarkets. I just feel frustrated that even when disabled people are catered for the company can change it’s mind and make things worse. I just want people to recognise the problems we can face.

Lemon tree

Posted on October 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Green, Growth, Lemon, lemon tree, Plant, Plant pot, potted on, Ripening, Supermarket, Yellow2 Comments

We have a lemon tree from the supermarket and after six months the lemon has grown and is turning yellow. There are a few more small lemons on the plant so once we pick this one they may start growing. It’s propped on the lip of the pot so it can catch the sun and get warmed by the radiator when it’s on.

The plant had to be potted on because it was root bound and it has grown really well with glossy green leaves. I like the texture of the lemon and leaves in my photo which I took from below to get a better view and catch the blue sky and dream catcher in the background.

Changes

Posted on July 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoyed, Art, Change, Jetpack, Leave it alone, moving things, rant, Supermarket, WordPressLeave a comment

Why do people change things?

You’re just getting used to a place, and then someone decides to change things around. Like our supermarket. It was recently ‘refurbished’, in other words taken apart like a jigsaw and put back together in a different way. They increased the stock but moved everything round. The problem is I can’t find things. The signage doesn’t correspond with what’s on the shelves! A shop used to take 10 minutes, now?

So I go somewhere else now for the majority of my shopping. Leave things alone! If it isn’t broke don’t try and fix it!

Facebook does it all the time, just when you think you know what you are doing they change it. So you get questions asking if you want more or less posts…. When you just want the same as before.

Today, jetpack has added a ‘me’ option. Plus some sort of acceptance request, it’s changed stuff…. Leave it alone so I know what I’m doing. I’m an artist, I paint blue sky, I don’t paint it green for a change and tell you all future skies will be green! Going from WordPress to Jetpack was annoying. I did it. Don’t mess it up!

Shopping bag cat

Posted on March 1, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, canvas bag, Cat, lidl, Mat, Sleeping, Supermarket, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was supermarket. My cat loves sleeping on a supermarket canvas shopping bag. It’s better for the environment too I think?

Going out

Posted on January 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Escape, Getting out, Icy, Life, Out, Snow, Supermarket, trolley, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

I just got out of the house, only to go across the road to the supermarket, but it was definitely ‘out’. I leaned heavily on the shopping trolley to support myself, the cold air had got to my lungs and I felt short of breath again, but at least I didn’t cough. I was out yesterday, but only to walk from the car to the pharmacy and back again, so this was actually more of a test. The snow had all melted except in patches where it had been sheltered by the shadow of some bushes. In those places where the sun hadn’t penetrated there was crispy icy snow, glassy from compression by feet. I avoided those areas because I didn’t want to slip. Now I’m home and keeping warm. I’m wearing a fleece and my dressing gown over my clothes to keep warm!

Shopping

Posted on January 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bagging area, Exhausted?, Food, Illness, Lost, rearranged, Shopping, Supermarket, superstore, Tired2 Comments

I have just been shopping, for the first time in a week. But really I’ve only been out a few times in a month through ill health. The trouble is the superstore I go to was refurbished in the summer and because I’ve been going to a cheaper, smaller, super market I don’t know where things are. It took me about half an hour to get eight things! I used to be able to go in and get what I wanted in about five to ten minutes. Now I have to search. Plus they have added a lot more self checkouts. I prefer the manned tills, but there were big queues today so I used the self checkout. I had several ‘unexpected item in the bagging area’ situations. Partly because I took my own bag and it didn’t like it. Then it kept telling me to put the last item back in the basket? A woman manning the checkouts had to come over and sort out the computer screen. Oh for old fashioned checkout people. I went home and vowed not to go out again tonight.

A supermarket ‘present’

Posted on December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged carrier bag, cloth bag, free gift, premium price, premium product, Supermarket, tea towel, voucherLeave a comment

A local supermarket keeps sending me letters to try and get me to come back (I’ve been using the cheaper one down the road). Most weeks I get a letter and vouchers, but because of the post they are generally due to expire on that day or the next. But today I got a package which looked like it was a cloth carrier bag, plus four lots of 500 ‘point’ vouchers and you only had to spend one pound?! Whoopee!

I went to the shop, got a few things I can’t buy at the ‘cheap’ shop and proceeded to the till where I spoke to a nice man. I got the ‘bag’ out and unfolded it…. I didn’t understand, it was plain on one side. It was a TEA TOWEL! No! Not a bag! Botheration…. I bought a thirty pence!?! Carrier bag. At least I could use one of the 500 point vouchers? No. I hadn’t selected one of the supermarkets premium brand products! Botheration again.

Wear a mask

Posted on January 3, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Cough, Covid, Illness, Life, Mask, omicron, sneezing, Supermarket, Woman2 Comments

Oh dear! I went round the supermarket today and about a third of the customers were not wearing masks. One woman in particular looked really ill, sneezing and coughing. She was struggling to get what she wanted. When we got to the till she was ahead of me, she looked flushed and hot. I stood well back even though that meant the person behind me was getting close. I tried to keep away from them too.

I won’t go back to that supermarket for a couple of days. I hope the woman is OK. I hope I don’t catch her illness. Meanwhile I’m keeping my mask on!

Self service

Posted on July 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Annoyed, money saving, out of work, self-service, Shopping, Supermarket, Thinking, tillLeave a comment

Someone asked if there should only be self service tills in supermarkets. I aid no. I went to our local supermarket yesterday evening. I had to get a lot of stuff so we got a trolley. Have you ever tried balancing everything from your trolley on the tiny platform at the self service till? balancing it and then putting it in bags and balancing them on the other tiny platform that weighs your goods? It was crazy. There was one woman helper. She had to let me move stuff so I could carry on.
Plus it puts decent people out of work!

Knickers!

Posted on April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Covid19, Face mask, Getting prescription, Going out, Ignoring rules, Knickers, Life, Men, Social distancing, Supermarket4 Comments

This is how I went to get my prescription from the supermarket today. I couldn’t see a mask so stuck my head through a new pair of knickers, gave them a twist then put the other leg hole over. Someone in the shop complemented me on the pattern!

Lots of young to middle aged blokes standing chatting together. The security guard asked them if they lived together, one said yes, the other no! One of them kept sitting down and wiping his forehead, like he had a fever! He went to the cash machine. I told the guard, he said oh the cleaners come out and wipe it over every so often.??
I tried using the touchscreen on the self checkout with my wooly gloves, that didn’t work. So had to touch it. I also tried the card reader, but that didn’t work so had to tap in my pin number.

Then when I came out there were three blokes chatting round the car next to mine… No social distancing….

Anyway, came home and put knickers and gloves in the washing machine. Washed face and hands. Relatively safe but don’t feel safe.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Supermarket