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Out to the shops early today. The local (huge) Drugstore was having one of its one day sales. Many of the groceries and household things they sell are similar or cheaper to supermarket prices, but today there was a shedload of stuff for between a third and two-thirds of it's normal price.

They actually do it on a much smaller scale (but the same great deals) every month but for two days. When it's a big one and just one day, you need to be there fairly early or it's all gone. I was there an hour after opening and half of some of the stuff had sold already.

What's annoying is that on some things they limit how many you can have. I actually think that's fair. What's wrong is that they simply allow the customer to buy too many and the cashier puts it through as two transactions.

I probably feel more strongly about this as I can't do that as I'm limited to what I can carry by bike or even on foot, while the rest of the population loads up their cars.

There are a few elderly or disabled people who are restricted in what they can carry too. They struggle with their 'walker' and basket, hoping to get their fair share of cheap butter, eggs, cheese, salmon, cookies etc and then they can't because some thoughtless people have taken a lot more than their share. The old story I suppose.

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International weekend today. England play a friendly with the main qualifier next week. But there are some attractive games I can watch on TV. Denmark-Portugal is one I can definitely watch. I'll be booing Portugal of course. Spain and Belgium I might see. It's on a channel I don't get but the free preview still seems to be on.

Might go and cheer on Macedonia against Scotland in a mo.

Oh....Argentina V Brazil later. Might be able to get that too.