Good Morning, Whatcha Up To The Day?

[Michael Rolls]

highlight of the day will be the Tesco delivery!

[GrannyMac]

I hope you've ordered some treats Mike!

Exercise class later, then I probably won't be fit for anything else. 😮�💨

[Michael Rolls]

I have indeed!

[Scrumpy]

Lottie and Bertie are coming here today.. Chicken for lunch.. 
Not as hot .. not as humid.. much better for sleeping.. 

[Alex]

No rain today   so far....
I'm having chicken too Scrumps, a curry.

[Michael Rolls]

well, thundery showers forecast by now, but so far 🤞🤞🤞

[Raven]

Been raining here off n on all night, but managed to get Dageus out between showers. Off to the Doctors soon to see the nurse, she called me in for repeat Blood Tests.....Needles, Groan. 

[Diasi]

A bit of luck this morning as I left the car window open about an inch last night but fortunately no rain came in as the driver's side is sheltered by the house wall.

Last night I signed up for an AliExpress account & ordered my first-ever items directly from China & today they sent confirmation of dispatch & tracking details.

Items that I'd bought on eBay for £26 cost me £7 + vat including postage.

[klondike]

If you are prepared to take a punt on Ali Express and can use apps you may want to take a look at the Temu app. I've not used it but my son did. He got a box full of stuff at rock bottom prices using it. Took 8 days to arrive. I have used Ali Express in the past with no issues. It's obviously Chink tat but most stuff is these days anyway.

[Raven]

That App keeps popping up in my FB Feed, some stuff looks interesting but my Highland Warning Bells were ringing.

[klondike]

All I can say is that my son's stuff showed up and pretty quickly. I got the app but haven't looked yet - I wanted to see how he got on.

Not sure how payment is made. From memory on Ali Express it was by some PayPal look alike which I was a bit dubious about but had no issues. That was several years ago. I've tended to avoid chink stuff on eBay as much of the financial saving went with a law change. That was why I was so annoyed with the supposed UK seller that was obviously shipping from China. That still drags on. I made the tracked return but the tracking shows it stuck in Birmingham. I suspect the return address was a fake. I will eventually get the money back from either eBay or PayPal. I'll probably get the item returned by Royal Mail too if they can't deliver - that has happened before.

[Raven]

Those sellers from abroad that kid on they are in the UK should be booted off Ebay. A warning first maybe and if reported again then it's the boot.
Their sizes are all to hell as well, that's why I stopped buying from them. A couple of winters ago I found a lovely jacket and ordered it thinking it was in the UK. It took ages to come, and when it did it was several sizes too small. I was going to return it but my granddaughter saw it and said Pretty Please, so ended up with it.
Didn't stop me having a right go at the seller, I also left stinging feedback and reported him. 
I always go into the setting and choose UK only before I start to browse, but these cheats get in somehow.

[dextrous63]

I know what you mean.  A few years ago, I ordered some pangolin steaks from what I thought was a small butcher in Weymouth.  Turned out that it came from a wet market in Wuhan.  Tasted alright, albeit it a bit "gamey" from it taking so long to arrive, and we had a sore throat for a couple of weeks after.  But it didn't stop us from going out and about.....

[klondike]

[Scrumpy]