Hubby hates shopping though. He's the type of person who only goes to town when he needs something; and he'll go to the shop he's sure will sell it, buys it, and then leaves. The only things he enjoys browsing for are games for his PS2. But I'm a woman, and I had a great time!
I must have spent about two hours going round the department store, scanning anything and everything that caught my eye. The list is instantly updated with the selections, so all I have to do is get Hubby to have a look when he gets home, and take off whatever he doesn't like. We decided a couple of months ago that we wanted a whole selection of the volcanic Le Creuset collection:
So I took the opportunity to scan it all, 
because only a limited amount of products are searchable on their website. The prices are a little scary, but we have added the cheaper items as well as the more expensive ones. One thing Hubby banned me from adding to the list was the little heart-shaped ramekin (pictured right), which I have loved for years. Admittedly it's not very practical. I mean, it's big enough for olives or crisps or... actually I can't think of anything else - but it's cute and red and heart-shaped. So, as tempting as it was to sneak it onto the list; I resisted, and went back afterwards and bought it, yay!
I even stopped off at the café and bought a scone with clotted cream and jam and a full fat Coke. Mmmmmm...And now I'm looking forward to the Eurovision Song Contest, which is on tonight. For those of you who don't know about Eurovision; it's a song contest open to all European countries, and it actually made Abba famous (click here to see their 1974 performance). Each country chooses a non-famous singing act to represent them, and then the best go forward to the live show, which is shown annually. This year it's being broadcast from Moscow, which when I was at school, wasn't part of Europe, but I think the borders have become very vague now.
Anyway, each country competes, and then gives points for the acts they think deserve them. The results themselves used to take hours, but now they've organised it so that countries give their 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 point awards earlier, and only televise the 8, 10 and 12 point awards. It would work if the presenter from each country didn't then get all self-important and try to hog the lime-light by chatting on and on, lol! As with everything; the highest scorer wins, and subsequently host the show in their country next year. It's because of this that countries such as Luxembourg can't afford to enter Eurovision.
It's all good fun, and a good laugh; especially if you are in the UK, where, until recently, we had Terry Wogan doing the voice over and taking the piss out of it all. It makes it much more watchable. Terry has since retired, and handed the duty over to Graham Norton, who everyone hopes will carry on the tradition.
Unfortunately in recent years the voting has become more political instead of actually voting for the best act; which is why Britain is now so cynical about it; but it's still good for the giggle. And it's also great for laughing at the funny accents and attempting to learn French from presenters who can barely speak it themselves. For example, the host just greeted the audience by yelling "good evening Euro!" - But in all fairness, I only know two phrases in Russian...
If you'd like to see a few of the acts, no doubt they will be added here for all to see after the show.
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