I wanted to post this last Friday however I was away on a post Valentine's wee break and so today is the day instead so to speak.
This being a Market Friday post, we are going shopping, and not just any old shopping, oh no, we are going to go shopping for Valentine's Day.
Actually I have to confess, we don't really celebrate Valentine's Day anymore 🤣 Everything is overpriced and if you want to go eat it is crowded etc etc so we would rather go eat when it is quite and cheaper.
However I am a confessed shopaholic and do go out to the grocery store most days!
I am also very easy to please, gimme some chocolate and I am like a 🐷 in 💩!
The eagle-eyed amongst you will see the trolley handle does have LDI of ALDI on it, so yep I am at the ALDI by the park. You may well have noticed something else in the trolley...
Yes I got some pancake mixes for Shrove or Pancake Tuesday which was on Tuesday 21st Feb... However as it was Talk Time with Tengo on Tuesday and I had been waiting for a plumber I decided to wait until Mrs T was not working, which is today! However our shower is still not fixed and we are waiting for an electrician to come fix it, which is a pain in the arse as the weather is gorgeous! Tomorrow will probably be 🌧
One more chocolatey thing I had to get was this...
When I saw 
Like Dreemie, Mrs T is an American and she loves that pbj thingy!
For the rest of us PBJ means Peanut Butter Jam. This jar was on sale and I said thank you very much, we'll have one of those to go with my Caramel spread for the pancakes.
I will also make some pancakes from scratch, especially as there a completion in the form of an #edtopic all about PANCAKE DAY which I want to join in. 
I digress so let's get back to Mrs T.
She loves wool or yarn and cannot get enough of it! She also DOES NOT LIKE CHOCOLATES! Actually this works out perfectly because whenever we get given or she gets given a box,then yep, yours truly gets to 🐖 out with the 🍫
So as you are beginning to get the picture I got her some wool. This blue chunky wool though! Damn it looks fine, I might have to pinch some and make something with a new toy that I got last week.
Prizes for guessing what that new toy was?!?
There was something that I had spied at the front of the store... Can you guess what, now remember that this shop was BEFORE Valentine's Day!
Yep plants. I am great believer of NOT giving flowers but giving a plant instead.
How about these beauties! An orchid in a ceramic pot for $8.99 so eleven bucks or so!
A good price? I have no fluffing idea, but it sounded like it...
Into the trolley one gorgeous orchid went!
A wee Secret ... I love plants. Another wee Secret (this seems like a kind of buy one get one free Secret deal!) I love pinks purples and bright colours so that was why I choose that one instead of the white ones!
Back to our shop. You didn't think I was finished surely!
So ALDI's here in the UK, not sure about with you, have their Special Buys which start on a Thursday so I usually get up there to see what is on sale. Some of those yarns I got were on Special at £4.99 for four balls of 100g yarn!
I had seen people getting wood and seemingly burning it to make gorgeous wee patterns and things. Turns out one of Mrs T's sister does this... And look at that price £9.99! Only ten fluffing quid!!! Well that went in the trolley!
Talking of trolleys, do you say trolley or cart?
When I think of a cart I think of gokarts zooming around a track!
Seems we are talking about the USA again, so you guys have Fat Tuesday, yet Mrs T had to settle for Fat Quarters.
My eyes and grubby hands could not keep away from these Special Buys!
Remember we are shopping with Valentine's Day mind. And what is the most romantic Paris in your mind? For me of course it is Paris! And looks a Paint by Numbers Eiffel Tower project!
Ya Dancer, in to the trolley you go my friend 🗼🥐🇫🇷🥖
I did get Mrs T some sketch books, these were a fluffing bargain!
Cinderfella is never far away and he had to get in on the L O V E act and got some Tea Towels with the word LOVE all over it!
The trolley kept filling up!
Can you see what else had snuck it's way in there?
Well I moved down another aisle, and yep something grabbed my eye 👀 A Sepcial Buy of course!!!
For me it was a Dolly! Although it was labeled as Dolly Trolley!
Once our dramedy (thank you for that word Super Eli 
Into the trolley you go thank you very much!
I was getting fluffing peckish and so I snagged a bag of crisps for the walk home, and then it was off to the checkout.
Then it was time to walk home! Bing Scotland it was blowing a bloody hoolie and I had to do some adjustments so that the orchid was not blown to Kingdom Come!
Cinderfella wanted to show you one of her his new tea towels!
And that my friends was my wee bit of shopping for Valentine's Day!
This is my contribution to #marketfriday from the delightful damsel on the high seas 
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo and pictures taken with my Smartphone or Canon HS Powershot Bridge camera.
DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND DO IT OFTEN
Haste Ye Back!
PS Have you seen the new Hive Shop where you can get your Hive Merch and pay with Hive, SwapHive or HBD?
There is also a code for 10% off, so go and use HIVE10 at the checkout... FOMO anyone!
Good luck 
