Christmas Shopping Nightmare

I have to admit it. I have one Christmas present so far. Just one.

It's not that I can't be bothered, I have tried. But, I can't cope with shopping at the moment. In fact, I've tried three times so far, with disastrous results:

Attempt one...

On Thursday night, I thought it would be a good idea to pop into Manchester and have a little look around the Christmas Markets. Big mistake. I drove around for 40 minutes trying to find a parking space. It took me 30 minutes to get there, 40 minutes to try to find a space and 30 frustrating minutes to get home, having not even managed to get out of the car!

Attempt two...

I went to the local John Lewis on Saturday, just for a little browse, see what I could find.

Good God.

Everybody, his brother, auntie, grandmother and cousin was there. It was a Christmas Shopping Nightmare. I'm not doing that again - I couldn't park, there were cars off-roading on the pavement and I got the back of my legs clipped about ten times by browsers' trolleys.

Attempt three...

Fancied buying a yoga mat from Tesco for a friend, I'd seen some quite nice ones. So, off I popped. They've added a second floor to Tesco for non food products so I thought I'd have a little browse at the clothing section whilst there.

Before I'd even got up the escalator, I was nearly mowed down by hoards of people coming down from the new Tesco second floor. I would have had to queue with thirty others to get up the escalator. Good grief.

Three attempts at Christmas Shopping, three attempts failed. And they wonder why we're all going onlineto buy presents? I'm off to do a bit of online shopping from the comfort of my sofa with a nice cup of tea.

Stuff shopping!

Eva xx

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