Test blog. 140

Bargain hunters anonymous… That’s who I should be contacting readers. I have this fetish if you will about getting things at the right price. I wrote an entry earlier this week about a laptop bag which to be honest was pretty dire, it has been sitting on my hard drive since Sunday evening waiting for me to fettle and fart with. In fact I have fettled and farted on several occasions but it just felt wrong. A poor show. Not to the standard my fan base would expect. It was basically intended to be a review of sorts on a Laptop bag Note A Unfortunately for me, and fortunately for you, once I realised that a few pieces of canvas material the odd zip and strip of Velcro couldn’t be dragged out into more than 2 paragraphs it sort of became a ramble which even had me skipping large parts of it during the proof reading. Note B But, (I love blogging btw because you can start paragraphs with ‘but’ or ‘and’ my old English teacher would no doubt be having a fit reading this) as I was saying I love bargains. The bag in question I had been hunting down for several months, sad I know hence the reference to rehab groups. I knew that I needed one but the cheapo range didn’t run to anything that would snugly encase my wide screen crystalbrite ™ pride and joy and do it justice. I had it in my bargain hunting mind that I was not going to pay more than 13 quid. Where that figure came from I’m not sure, I think it was from several I’d looked at but were just too small or tacky to fit my pooter. Imagine my joy then when I waltzed into a supermarket and spotted my perfect man bag at £12.79 with free optical mini retractable usb cord mouse. It ticked all the boxes and was below the magical bargain price figure in my head. The mouse was an added bonus. I was beaming, with my goal achieved I almost skipped and whistled around the shop and through the checkouts that day. I have road tested the bag since and it performs wonderfully, all was right in my world… That was until last night. I saw another bag. At first glance I thought it was the same as mine, without the free mouse though and on closer inspection subtly different. Hah I thought I got a free mouse with mine, the warm feelings sweeping over me again as I recalled fondly the purchase I’d made a couple of weeks ago. Then I spotted the big £3 sign on the when its gone its gone bargain box they were in. Must be in the wrong box I thought, as the when its gone its gone range seemed to consist mainly of mini speakers, keyboards, several types of mouse (thankfully not mine though) and other peripherals. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE I was about to turn my attention towards the cat food aisle when Anton reminded me that he hadn’t got a bag yet for his laptop, and pointing out the individual price tag on the edge of the shelf where it said laptop bag, at £3 could he have one. At this point I was gutted, surely there was some mistake check the barcode numbers but no they match the bag was indeed marked up correctly at 3 golden coins. I knew I had to buy it after all at that price even if it was used just to carry the cat kibble to the car it would be against my bargain spotting religion not to. I should of course be ecstatic after all I have had two bargains but somehow the shine has been taken off by the ridiculously cheap one. Damn… Footnotes:- Note A A ridiculous subject in itself I’m sure you’ll agree. Somehow I had got the impression that I would be able to write a meaningful review on a carrier for a computer…Return to blog whence you came Note B Yes I proof read. Not that it helps much…although it did spare you the aforementioned review. Return to blog whence you came