Help me shop!

Dear Gourmands,

I need to buy a tin of rillettes. Any flavour. By Thursday night.

If you know of a retail outlet (supermarket or specialist shop, though the latter may be tricky to get to!) please drop me a comment.

Sadly, I do not have time to go cross-Channel and pick up a gross for a couple of euros.

Online Shopping: good and bad

Good online shopping experience:
Amazon. On Saturday I received a parcel that only contained 2 of the 3 items I'd ordered. I emailed them on Monday morning: within two hours I'd had an emailed apology and a new order (at no charge) had been raised for the missing item.

BAD online shopping experience:
Tesco. They were generally very reliable when I was in L__sham and B___ Hill. Last week I put in an order for a delivery to Tonbridge, for Friday morning. On Friday morning they phoned to say the van had broken down, could we reschedule? 20 minutes on hold, and yes, we could. I was unimpressed.

I've just had another call* -- the driver is 'sorry to have missed me'. WTF? swisstone has been in all day. I have expressed this to them. They will be trying again. And they had better succeed or else.

*Good thing my phone, switched to silent as usual at werk, was in my hand at the time

Sun, wheel, Disney

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Originally uploaded by tamaranth.

Some of my photos from the California leg of my trip are now up over at Flickr. See Pirates! Seabirds! Me, looking inane!