Day 361: Relaxing in the City

We headed in to town for a little post Christmas shopping, it wasn't terribly exciting but Henry enjoyed our snack break at the Coffee Club. I'm pretty sure he was eating Belinda's Friand here.

Day 344: Paper Cranes

We tried to be a little organised today by going in to the Canberra Centre to start some Christmas shopping. I'm not sure how much Belinda got done (we went in separate directions for a while) but I came out all but empty handed. Luckily, I've got some stuff already on the way. Have I mentioned how much I like shopping online?

At least we saw this cool paper crane display, which I've highjacked for my daily photo. I didn't have my camera with me so I had to use the iPhone and I have to say that the image quality on my new one is so much better than that of the old 3Gs I had previously.

Day 284: Domestic Supplies

A little parcel full of more online shopping arrived today. Nothing too exciting though, we stumbled across a special deal on dishwashing tablets at a stupidly low price so we stocked up. As well as the washing supplies we found some really cheap 32GB SD cards so we bought one each of those as well.

Now we'll be able to take thousands of photos of our clean dishes for roughly the next 6 months without having to clear the camera's SD card or buy more dishwashing stuff. Life is good.

Day 269: Expanding Capabilities

This little gem arrived in the mail today, it's a funky little adaptor that lets me us Nikon F mount lenses on my Nikon V1 camera. I'm now looking forward to actually using this with some of Belinda's lenses and might even look into buying some F mount lenses of my own.

It's quite a heavy little thing, and it's got all the contact points to bring power to the lens so it will auto focus. The local camera shops were asking a lot of money for one of these and they didn't actually carry them in stock either. By shopping online I saved close to 40% and had delivery within a week. I wonder how long it will be before retail outlets are a thing of the past?

Day 204: Brunch in the 'Berra

We headed into the Canberra Centre this morning to do a bit of shopping for Henry's Birthday but our first stop had to be breakfast... at a quarter to 11. We were both starving.

After satisfying our needs for poached eggs, hash browns, sauteed mushrooms, grilled tomato, thick toast and in my case lots of bacon we got started on the shopping. Belinda had a little spending spree in Forever New and I bought a carry bag for my camera and a funky little iPad connector thing that lets me pull photos straight from an SD Card or any camera with a USB cable. We also bought Henry some Duplo/Lego stuff with farm animals, I think he'll like it a lot. All in all it was a successful day out.

Day 175: Escalation

Today we went in to Castle Towers to do a little shopping and on the way out this photo of Henry's first go up an escalator was taken by today's special guest photographer, Belinda. I loved the look of concentration on Henry's face as he was preparing to step over the part where the steps collapse and then disappear into the floor.

It's not often I get to make an appearance in my own blog and usually that suits me fine, but I'm really glad to have made it into this post with Henry.

Day 117: Rungs In The Mail

About a week ago I ordered a new ladder online, it was a spur of the moment thing with the 'deal' only being available for 24 hours. Today it arrived at the post office and I was able to pick it up on my way home from work. It's one of those multi position ladders that can disassemble and become 2 x smaller A frames, I'm sure that will come in handy eventually.

It will be interesting to see how many times I blog about my online shopping habit this year, and whilst I think this is probably one of my least exciting purchases it'll still add to the final count.

Day 96: Peristent Postal Patronage

On Monday the 26th I sent my old iPod Nano off to be replaced under a safety recall scheme. Today the replacement arrived and I think I got a pretty good deal: I sent off my old poverty pack 2GB Nano and a little over a week later I received a new 8GB Nano that's about a 3rd the size of the old one and has 4 times the memory, plus it's got a fancy little touch screen.

Belinda picked it up from the post office for me this afternoon, she'd had a parcel notification yesterday and had no idea I had one waiting for me as well (either did I for that matter). Funnily enough when Belinda arrived at the post office and said she was picking up a parcel for Moss, the counter staff asked "Is that for Dale?". I think Belinda was a little put out that they were all very aware that my mail had arrived but seemed to be completely unaware that she gets mail too. This may have been compounded when Belinda mentioned it was a little embarrassing that they knew me so well and their response was along the lines of "We know all of our best customers by name...".

I've chosen to view my "best customer" status at the local post office as a good thing and ignore the possibility that some may see this as a sign that I shop online too much. It seems that persistence pays when it comes to being known by your Postie.

As a side note: the Abundant Application of Alliteration in Today's Tale Title was for my Beautiful Belinda's Benefit.

Day 49: Shopping With Henry

We took a late afternoon trip in to the Canberra Centre today and what you see above is Henry's preferred position for negotiating the tight aisles of the shops. It was a bit of a challenge avoiding either knocking things off hangers & shelves or damaging those precious little legs on less flexible shop furnishings. 

I know Henry doesn't like being strapped into the stroller and would prefer to roam free, but at least you could say he makes his own fun when he is forced into immobilisation.