Nina's Blog - Monday 26th January 2026

Monday 26th January 2026, 15:55

Well that was a waste of time. Today's errand was not completed!

After breakfast at IKEA and a walk along the snowy shore of a bay I turned for home intending to get propane at Bauhaus on the way. When I got there I saw that they have 'improved' things; instead of parking one's car by the propan storage shed and walking into the drive through part of the store there is a sign saying to buy a key inside the shop which you then use to open a container and swap your empty cylinder for a full one. So I drove on the main entrance, went to the checkout and asked for a key only to be told that I have to go to the drive through. So I drive back there and this time drive up to the automatic door and drive in. I then walked into the place I used to go to to buy gas and asked there only to be told that the two people who looked like they might be assistants were actually electricians and that I should speak to the person at the exit. When I get there I encounter two people on foot and four cars in a queue. The two people in forn to me were fobbed off with instructions to enquire at the place I had just come from; they pointed out that they also had tried there and been told by the two electricians to try where they now were. I didn't catch what was said next but the headed that way grumbling. I made my presence known and that I wanted propane and was told that three cars were ahead of me in the queue. So I decided that I'd not bother buying it there and got back into my car to drive around. When I got back to the exit in my car there was no queue and the woman I'd spoken to leaned out and looked in my car saw the 10 kg composite cylinder and announced that they were out of stock anyway!

I think I'll just cross them off the list of places to buy propane!

Not a total loss, at least I got of the house into the fresh air.