#BlogLife1020 - Trying Waitrose.. Never again! 4 hour wait

I am the opposite of fancy schmancy and this is an upmarket shop, they predict from 40-60 minutes which is a lot longer than the 15-20 minutes I usually get.

But Iceland was sold out of bread and I wanted to make toasties so I had to decide on Ocado Zoom, which has Waitrose stuff I think or Just Eat which sometimes has no minimum spend.

Thankfully what swayed me was I remembered I had a £10 voucher from Just Eat and if I use it before the 25th I get another £10 off which is really handy for a small top up shop or to get snacks.

It's really horrible to use, difficult searching for things with a huge lag, so I couldn't be bothered to use it for long, they didn't have the usual things I wanted like chicken samosas or spring rolls..

And I really fancied sushi, at first I was going to get plain avocado but that seems boring ha...

I've been wanting to try chicken katsu dragon rolls x6 so I bought that from the Taiko brand £5.70 for it, ouchy but I had to make up £15 I think so I could be frivolous really..

They also had jam doughnuts for £1.60 x5. The bread was x2 for £3.60 yowser.

Lastly there was a chicken and avocado sandwich so I thought yay I get my avocado fix after all for £4.80 yeesh.

The bag fee was 40p, the delivery fee was £5 (are you insane)?

The service fee was £1.72 and altogether it was £22.81 but with the tenner off £12.81 which is much better:) for 5 items really.

Interesting they've added a delay to the time. I don't feel hungry yet so that's fine, by the time 1pmish rolls around maybe I will be.

Just as I typed that the time reverted back ha. I hope they find my place ok and everything is in stock.

I feel tired today. Oh I was going to get the soup, shoot I should have looked at the beauty, lip balms and face washes..

Oh well next time. 1 hour 20 minutes from 11.40am.. Still waiting.

Once it's passed the 2 hour mark, I wish they would just cancel so I can use another grocery store.

At this rate everywhere will be closed and I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

I won't choose them again. Oof I really thought they were going to refund me and cancel it but it arrived.

It's silly but I was kinda hoping they would throw in extras, for keeping me waiting, no apology, they found my place just fine but yeesh, horrible service.

I can't believe it took 4 hours. I hate to say it because I'm mad at them but the doughnuts are really soft and sweet, very sugary which they usually skimp on..

The price £1.60.. Hmm I guess that's not bad. The chicken avocado sandwich I think it was with rocket leaves that taste of nothing, I picked out.

The avocado and chicken though was soft and tasty enough, I would maybe get that again, providing I had a discount, £4.80 is a lot..

Considering most places do a meal deal, where you would get a drink and a snack for the same price all included, it's pricey.

I had to try the chicken katsu sushi rolls and again, it's got a bit of a crunch and is seasoned nicely.

I would get that again for sure. A really nice balance of flavours.

7x pieces included and a dip and a sachet. It expires tomorrow, wow they could have given a reduction on that. Meanies.

The dip is sweet yuckity, not sure of the flavour because I'm not trying that again.

Sweet chilli or sweet and sour I don't mind but anything else puts me off.

I am knackered, washed the sheets and duvet at long last, changed the bed, hung out some washing and that's it for today.

At least that's done, I was only going to change the duvet, but I thought let's do it all with loud party music.

Tomorrow maybe the floors or the bathroom, I hope the bedlinen doesn't take long to dry.

I should eat soon but I'm not peckish yet. It's funny I forgot I had like a burgundy sheet and it matches the duvet cover which is supposedly grey but it looks like a light mauve, happy accident.

Steam mop - friend or foe?

I absolutely hate cleaning with a passion. If there is anything else that needs doing I will be involved in that instead. 

My floors seem to perturb me the most as they are magnets for dirt and always need maintaining so having seen a YouTube demonstration on steam mops I thought great, this will make the work much less tedious and slow.

I was not going to pay a fortune to purchase one so I shopped around and saw that the supermarkets had the best rates and would arrange delivery for me also.

I couldn't wait for it to arrive and transform me into a cleaning wizard. The day arrived finally and panic set in as I saw the different parts that need assembling. 

The mop head. Two parts of the handle and lastly the velcro cleaning pads. 

I skimmed through the instruction manual with their vague instructions and even more general illustrations and then set to work putting it together.

Firstly I managed to jam the mop head on to the body of the steamer in about five minutes of twisting, pulling and gritting my teeth. 

Next I attached the velcro pad and that was straightforward enough. There was even actually a spare pad included. 

The final challenge was attaching the handle which first needed to be connected together, only it was unclear which frigging way it was to be affixed.

Trying out all the combinations possible and nothing working was starting to vex me. My own steam mop was mocking me. Sitting there all smug and superior will all the answers as to how it was supposed to be arranged. 

Finally I gave up and used it without the handle which was a real pain. It did a thorough job but it was really awkward bending down to use it.

I had a brainwave and decided I would use good old fashioned sellotape to seal everything together but within seconds, the handle came off in my hand, so then I decided to look for the stronger masking tape that had a better grip.

Only suddenly it was nowhere to be seen and things I had thought of as forever lost were turning up as though they were part of a scavenger hunt.

I was determined to use my steam mop as intended so I kept looking until I found it and then used it on the two handle pieces to further cement them together and then as I was holding the handle over the slot that it refused to click on to..  

The damn thing magically just slid in and clicked into place. Typical grrr!!

At least now it's mostly all correctly attached together and I can use it with the handle to make my life easier.

Moving on to the actual usage. I prefer to fill the water tank completely and that way I get 10-15 minutes of use. It leaks everywhere though and that is frustrating.

It doesn't take long to get steamy but I leave it an extra few minutes to get really piping hot. All the better to tackle the floors. The cord seems really long but when I am mopping the bathroom it barely reaches.

Are cordless mops even available? If I were shopping again. I would invest more and get something more powerful and less leaky.

I know that you are supposed to sweep first and use the mop more as a polish but when you are sick, you need a one stop solution. I just use the mop as a general cleaner because it takes it out of me.