Hi Lou -

and welcome back. Hope you get the job situation sorted out okay.
Michele - like Lou says - have you done a test? You've been feeling under the weather for a long while now - do you think that maybe its time to think about going to the doctor?
DH had a day off yesterday so we took the dogs to the seaside. It was Ellie's first time and I really, REALLY wish I'd taken a camera. She took one look at the sea and did that Scooby Doo thing - laid her head to the right and looked at the sea then laid her head to the left and looked at the sea. You could see 'What the

is THAT' running through her mind. G&F took off at full run across the beach so she decided it was probably okay and chased after them. Fred threw himself in to one of the shallow beach pools and she followed which took her very slightly out of her depth - she didn't panic - she tried to swim and did loads of splashing but wasn't getting anywhere so DH waded in and fished her out - then, of course, she jumped straight back in again so we left her to get on with it - she soon learned to swim.

It was a beautiful sunny day, not too cold but with a fairly strong breeze and it was so nice to see the dogs chasing each other through the shallows with the sun twinkling off the spray and water.
Back to reality today - three eBay buyers who all thought they read things in my descriptions that weren't there now want refunds. (WHY can't people read descriptions / check measurements properly... arghhh!) One woman in particular is really weird - the description and title stated item was black - all emails said it was black - PayPal confirmation said it was black - and she's emailed me to say she's disappointed because .... its black. Apparently she thought it was going to be dark blue. She also thought it was going to be embroidered - dunno why she thought it was embroidered - I haven't got anything here embroidered at all. I thought she might have muddled my item up with another purchase but I checked her buying history and she hasn't bought anything else. D'oh!
AND.... Sainsburys just delivered. All of this week's Christmas stuff is there but 13 items out of my normal weekly shopping have been subbed - mostly with totally unsuitable stuff like own brand full fat Greek Yoghurt instead of the low fat kind.

I tried ringing the complaints department to see if I could get the missing stuff delivered when they get it in store but all she kept saying was that I'd get a refund - fat lot of use that is! I think I might try Tesco again next week.