Bargain

Like many people, I did a fair bit of shopping in the January sales. I also took advantage of online shopping ("look! You don't even have to move from your chair!") at, amongst others, Marks & Spencer. I picked out a few items, and things went fine until I got to the delivery stage and the form asked for my address.

To cut a really long story short (and to rewrite this post, which was becoming terribly dull), nothing on earth would make that form let me enter my address. The problem was that, based on either the postcode or address details you provided, it would present you with a list of addresses in its database and ask you to choose which one was yours. Due to the fact that I'm living in halls of residence at uni (and therefore have an address that starts with room number and residence, and isn't listed in their database) there was absolutely no way to enter my actual address.

Luckily such problems are as naught when you have a loving boyfriend whose address is on their database, and who visits me every weekend :-)

Moving on to the slightly more pleasant part of the tedious story (I'll be done in a minute, honestly), one of the items in the sale was a rather nice coat. Now, I know many women have a Thing for shoes. Not me. I have a bit of a Thing for coats and jackets. Now, luckily enough, most coats and jackets — at least, the ones that I (unfortunately) like — are prohibitively expensive enough that I in my cheapskateness won't buy them often at all. In fact, I've just astoundingly worked out that the last time I bought a coat or jacket was two years ago. Shocking.

This one, though, was a snip at £19, and the website said it was reduced from £45. When the coat arrived up here, though, the label told a different story:

That's a big 80% discount. That's my kind of coat.