Is this the Ugliest Mug You've Ever Seen?

If you ever visit me you can guarantee I'll never offer you a cup of tea out of this mug.  It was delivered, for free, to my front door a couple of days ago.

It seems that ordering online has really taken off here, basically you can buy anything online, nothing too different from anywhere you may say, but here it actually works.  I ordered a book from The Book Depository in the expectation that I wouldn't see it for about 3 weeks.  In Australia you order something online, wait awhile, forget about it, then when it arrives it's like a surprise all over again.  Here I ordered the book on Friday, and by 9am Monday it had been delivered, so whilst I lost out on the secondary joy of receiving something that had long been forgotten about, I had the book in less than 24 business hours.

In this fever of online ordering I decided to try and get some new gym gear, having culled everything for the move.  I'd already been to a few stores in person and was starting to despair, it was either all really running specific, not what you want to wear to yoga, or too expensive, or it was like visiting a Target shop.  The people from Canberra will know what I'm talking about, you walk into a store which seemingly has a lot of stock, and you find that actually there's not a thing that you could buy. 

So in a fit of people hatred I resorted to the internet.  And a few days later my things arrived, along with this incredibly hideous mug.  I can see why they are giving these away.  The placemat underneath the hideous mug is from another online purchase, like I said I've been going a bit crazy.

On another note we're off to Barcelona tomorrow evening.  It's going to be interesting to return, last time I was there was in 2007/2008 and I really loved it.  But maybe that's because I didn't really have any expectations and the place turned out to be just what I needed at that point.  So I'm hoping I like it as much the second time round, when there is the large weight of expectation hanging on it.