Lately we have been locked into the Lords from about 10am to 10pm every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Whips – even lowly unpaid Party Whips like me – have to stay to the bitter end. So that’s 3 days gone for shopping. Thursdays are debates from 11am-6pm, and Fridays I’m too tired to do anything. Weekends are spent contacting one’s ‘flock’, so that’s weekend shopping interrupted.
So how do Whips do Christmas shopping? Suggestions welcome!
As Peter Kay once advised, “get on t’internet”
Hire a shopper and after checking out the wanted items on the internet, take the reference numbers and have them collected, or, delivered to your door.
Or, simply shop on the internet directly, pay with your creadit card and they will be with you in an instant.
The very big problem with internet shopping, or, indeed shopping not taken on by self is, you have no idea of quality or real sizes in what they are selling. And returns are a nightmare.
Grocery shopping on the internet is definitely a no, no, unless it is pre packaged dry goods. The supermarkets cheat and send you all the stale old grub they have left over. Or, they do the unforgivable and replace items they do not have in stock with horrendous substitutes.
The very best idea I can think of, is, be like Princess Diana, have the department store, after closing time, let you shop freely with a couple of assistants to take note of all you require, and they will do the boring stuff after you have had enough. And she could even manage it after midnight.
ROTFWL.
However, with all the time your place of ‘hard work’ is closed for ‘breaks,’ I’d say you have no worries finding time to fufil your domestic duties.
On the other hand, think how terrible that must be for all the women who work morning to night, are a single family and have to do it six days a week, with no support of any kind either for them or their children.
This sums it up for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks35_R_tDLY
Best-practice Christmas activity would surely be to
1. Rest and Fast (so much ‘Christmas-fare’ is unhealthy-junk and ‘un-fair’ anyway)
2. Take Felden-‘Christ’ with you to be ‘practicing’ (sic) everywhere .
3. (‘) Commune in private with God in your own room (‘). [The Redeemer’s advice].
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[“] And may the blessing of God Almighty ‘Father’, ‘Son’, and Holy-Spirit, rest and remain with you now and all ways [“]
Being sufficiently disabled to not get to the shops and carry my own stuff home, I have used online shopping for the past 9 years.
If you make a careful list before hand and check the recorded weights carefully before buying, especially of the canned food, not buying the picture rather than the food quantity, online shopping is excellent. That is groceries done. Somebody has to be there to receive them.
For gifts all Department store have online presence, for all the purchases you should wish to make.
You do not need to stir from your armchair at any time except to open the door to the deliveryman.
You may even learn to loathe the masses, who do shop at the time of year, and the spivs who extract money for nothing in the high st. Shop in the new year. Get some bargains.
Ask your Chief Whip for a ‘slip’ in order to go x – mas shopping!
Unfortunately this blog post has incorrectly been labelled as Baroness Lister. If fact the author is a new blogger Baroness Perry. This small glitch is something we are looking into. Apologies for any confusion!
Yes, but the picture is of her? I’m surprised Lord Blaggeur has not asked for the context of Christmas, past, present or future? The answer to the question is, ‘in a hurry’.
Yes Senex the picture is of Baroness Perry!