What’s a Girl to do?
Today was one of those terrible, no-good, long and horrible days. While nothing majorly bad happened (we all still have our main limbs intact etc) it was one of those nightmare days when nothing goes as planned and a simple jaunt into the city which should have been all-over-red-rover in an hour took three instead. It was pretty much downhill from there. It was a good reminder that the best laid plans of mice and men can go badly awry and that a back-up plan for the back-up plan is always a good idea. So lessons before we hit the road:
- No one in this family is ever playing hide and seek again. Especially not in a shop. Enough said.
- Refillable water bottles are my new best friend. We will take these through security empty and fill them up on the other side. After that, nobody is going anywhere without one staple gunned to their forehead.
- Public Transport “time tables” should perhaps be considered “tables of intent” .
- Divide and conquer. The kids have quite different attention spans in things like the art gallery. Leonardo was miserable to have his time cut short but CityHall was going to spontaneously combust if we stayed a minute longer. I forsee “parent tag” as our new survival strategy.
- Those little ladies who carry round umbrellas for shade are onto a good thing.
Anyway, it was one of those days that was going to require copious amounts of chocolate to aid recovery or something equally indulgent. Fortunately our travels just happened to take us past a Lush store. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmmm. Of course we had to go in – but only you understand, because I was buying stuff for our upcoming trip. Here’s my little stash of loot:
I got two solid shampoo bars and a teeny tin of solid perfume. I have a confession to make in regards to Lush Lust. I don’t actually like the smell of most of their solid shampoo bars. And standing inside a Lush shop with all of the other overwhelming scents, it was very hard to tell exactly what they would smell like. We have already had one incident of some Lush shampoo being banned from the bathroom by SGM, so I really, really didn’t want anything with an offensive smell that might permeate all of our suitcases. The reason I got two was that if you bought two, you got a free tin to go with it, and in my weakened emotional state, that seemed like a good idea at the time. The blue one is,
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And the white one is
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The solid perfume I thought was going to smell a lot more caramel like but SGM’s first reaction was that it was quite floral.
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At the counter I got a very nice surprise, they were giving away excess Christmas stock and we actually came home with four additional products for free! That was a very bright spot in an other wise poxy day and now, if you’ll excuse me, I believe my bubble bath is calling me…
Sorry to hear that your day didn’t go so well.
I hope all those lovely Lush products lifted your spirits. How long does a solid shampoo bar usually last (or how many washes)?
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I’m not sure exactly how long they last (having had to throw out the whiffy one). They are a very hard soap rather than a soft squishy one. Stanford Wellsphere says
I bought them because we won’t have to declare them as part of our “liquids allowance” but what I didn’t realise is that some travellers use them to wash their clothes as well.
Plus another travel advantage is they are less likely to leak or spill. Another reason they last a long time may be the fact that kids can’t “accidentally” pour out half the bottle. Most of them are also SLS free.