On Saturday, I took the bus into town and alighted at Leamington’s Jephson Gardens, which are expansive and many-pathed Victorian gardens worth a look if you’re ever this way and fancy visiting somewhere that won a Bees’ Needs Award in 2016 hashtag random fact.
My parents used to take me to the Jephson Gardens but I can remember absolutely zilch about them. I was always more interested in Southorne's shoe shop where I never dared venture because it was too posh, but eventually about 30 years later I bought my wedding shoes there - white peep-toe sandals to go with my white lace 1920s-style dropped-waist dress with handkerchief point skirt. Total joy (though entirely unsuited for a January wedding). I still have the shoes but can't get into them now (probably not the dress either, I haven't tried for a long time). As for waiting for a text with a discount code, or a password reset email, or anything else that the great Online promises will arrive immediately, don't get me started. But then I waited a long time for a husband, and he eventually came along...
That thing with the discount happens to me too - all the time. And worse, when I’m browsing for something, I sign up to all the websites offering me a discount for my first order, then get bombarded with multiple daily emails and have to do the ‘Unsubscribe’ dance!
If this was my birthday present, I owe you 15% of it.
That's £395.95 please I thank you.
Hahahahaha
My parents used to take me to the Jephson Gardens but I can remember absolutely zilch about them. I was always more interested in Southorne's shoe shop where I never dared venture because it was too posh, but eventually about 30 years later I bought my wedding shoes there - white peep-toe sandals to go with my white lace 1920s-style dropped-waist dress with handkerchief point skirt. Total joy (though entirely unsuited for a January wedding). I still have the shoes but can't get into them now (probably not the dress either, I haven't tried for a long time). As for waiting for a text with a discount code, or a password reset email, or anything else that the great Online promises will arrive immediately, don't get me started. But then I waited a long time for a husband, and he eventually came along...
'The great Online' - ha ha. Thanks for reading!
Brilliant! The comic writing, that is, not the scrapes you get into.... ;)
Thanks so much, Keren!
That thing with the discount happens to me too - all the time. And worse, when I’m browsing for something, I sign up to all the websites offering me a discount for my first order, then get bombarded with multiple daily emails and have to do the ‘Unsubscribe’ dance!
You have to be on top of it all, don't you, otherwise you get nobbled. As if we don't have enough to do !
Love the stuck up the tree scenario!
It was funny - afterwards!