big mistake!
DOH! I made a big mistake today, Jen wanted to go to the local shops to get some more comfortable work shoes so we headed off to the local retail park that has a big tescos on site too we headed into tescos first to get some essentials and it was already packed at ten to nine in the morning! of course it is the weekend before half term finishes and on top of that we have halloween and bonfire night this week too so it was not a good idea to go anywhere near a set of shops thankfully we got there early and was out of there before it got too hectic but believe me it was more than hectic enough for me. At least it saved me having to go on monday now. I hate grocery shopping but we had a list and stuck to it so it was fairly painless I guess. all the same we was glad to get out of there. We then headed over to the rest of the shops Jen wanted some comfy work shoes so we headed off to brantanamos I know that they are only a cheap shop but there stuff is ok and Jen said that the shoes that she got from evans are a little too big. its her own fault for having such big feet hehe she always says that she is living in a country of tiny footed people :)) we nipped into matalan to get some bed socks to keep Jens tootsies warm at night and she grabbed a white top as they havent got a uniform for her at work yet so they asked her to wear a "nice" white top. thankfully thats all we had to get so we jumped in the car and got out of stratford before it got too busy we was back home before 10 so thats pretty good for us as we normally get carried away with our mooching, but with the crowds rapidly building today wasnt the day to mooch.
This afternoon was great though we got Belle a little witches outfit and she looked lovely in it so at 4.30ish we headed over to my aunts to do a bit of trick or treating she had brought some little sweeties especially for Belle so she had those then we all jumped in the car and headed down the road to see one of my aunts friends who said that he wanted to see little belle all dressed up and she got some packets of buttons from him she made out like a bandit but she did look cute in her little outfit I took some piccys but I will have to see if I can remember how to post them hehe.
I have been up and down all night to trick or treaters we went out and brought lots of bags of choccys ready for the masses but it came to 6 oclock and we hadn’t heard anything I thought we might be stuck chomping into them ourselves but at ten past 6 there was a knock on the door and then every few minutes until 10 to 8 we was almost down to our last bar of choccy when we turned off the porch light, put the pumpkin away and put belle to bed to chill out infront of the TV, it was an excellent night though and the kids were fantastic all ages and all sorts of costumes from home made make up costumes to totally amazing costumes worthy of the latest Oscar nominations!. what a day.
We are all off car booting tomorrow as there is a fairly local one which is pretty big so we are off to see if we can find some bargains :) hope you have a wonderful day
Enjoy
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