Christmas is getting really close now, even though you wouldn't think it with the weather we've been having. It double digits today and nice and sunny.
Well getting back from Leicester was a pain, I was supposed to leave there at 12:30 and arrive back in Folkestone at 3:10pm, but for some stupid reason; a gass pipe in Essex had an issue and all the highspeed trains had been 'suspended until further notice' so I got told to go to Victoria station and get a national rail from there. So I ended up on a train to Dover Priory that took 2hrs and then had to get a connection to Folkestone Central. So instead of getting back at 3:10 I got back at 5:30. Not happy.
But I had a successful shopping trip with Heather yesterday, we headed into Canterbury and had a wander through the markets and had a browse through the main shopping precinct. We looked through Next and found some really nice tops, stored them on our internal shopping list and headed out through the town, found some nice shops, tried on some nice shoes. Found a really nice turquoise jumper in M&S (might get it tomorrow or saturday in Dover) but we headed back to Next and tried on the tops we'd found. We chose two of them, one a magenta 3/4 sleeved top with lace detail on the neck line and the other a navy top, loose styled and with split sleeves with a butterfly pattern on the front.
In the markets there was a shop that was selling gemstone jewellery, so I had a look and found some wonderful Amber necklaces all set in sterling silver. I found a red one that I really liked and got it as a Christmas present to myself (it was under £40 too) but most of the time was spent looking for critters that might've been caught in the amber.
Funniest thing though, I got home and found that Colin and the family had been over and had left my birthday present for me... they'd gotten me a smaller amber pendant as well. An orange cube of amber also in silver. So now I have two to choose from :D I'm very happy with all the purchases as well as all that I got some souvenir-y stuff for people. Nothing that's going to push my baggage limit; I've started to pack all ready.
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