Blog2025 ≫ DIY shopping

Went to Wickes and to B&Q today to look at bathrooms. Assumed we'd get harangued by a sales person in at least one of them, but no. No-one around in Wickes though they have about eight consultation areas for bathroom and kitchen design service. We have made an appointment online for someone from Wickes to come round.

Of the three original people from checkatrade, only two of them got back to me, and they were a bit light on the details. I have chased up the third one, he says he might have sent the quote to the wrong email. Still nothing since then though so I suppose that is not happenening. I hope we get a better result from Wickes.

Ooh there is that thunderstorm then. The weather has been odd here. On the drive back from Dover B&Q there was rain, then suddenly it was so hot again you could see the water vapour rising from the road in front of us like fog again.

Off to Tesco now for a bin food run, but I'm not confident there will be any free stuff. It's not been working out all the time they've been doing the store refit. Maybe it's just hidden away somewhere. If I can't get some good free food for my tea I'll be going out for a Chinese takeaway.

Thundery showers and a moderate breeze, 14 - 20℃.

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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Married + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.

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