BARGAIN BABE
Getting the hang of shopping here..... Its not as if I've ever objected to shopping. Admittedly its one of my favourite things. No, let me say that another way...I LOVE a bargain, I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!! This could be directly related to the litres and litres of Scots blood flowing through my veins, it could be because of the global crisis, maybe its my instrinsic sense of not over-spending ( ha!))...nah, its none of those things. The real reason for my bargain, good deal, value for money attitude stems from something much more simple.....I got divorced. In France..... Divorced, alien/stranger, mother of two children under 7, no family for 15 000kms, full time teacher but as a "vacataire" /contract teacher only so no salary ( no guaranteed work for any more than a week long period....oh hello, and not talking about 40 hours here!!!), new to Bordeaux so no network, and of course, the major missing ingredient of barely any girlfriends to cry over, scrounge off, have d...