Oh great. Just what you all need - some newbie posting random irrelevant cr*p to increase her credibility....
OK well then I guess I'll have to ask publicly.
Erm...
OK, recently arrived in this country after over a decade in a nice sunny little paradise. (I had to: my ex was trying to kill me.) Lovely to be back again, blablabla. Anyway, I know literally nobody here (unless you count the Asda girls, who seem to know me already).
Today I did a little online research and found that there is a grower actually in this town! Yay! Only he hadn't posted on the forum (where I found him) for about 5 years. So I did a little cyber wizardry and found out where he's located. Only on his profile he described himself as a family dude, so I didn't want to waltz into his flower shop and ask to see "ganja man", in case the person I was asking turned out to be his son or boss or whatever. Remember: I know nobody so I have nobody to make introductions or referrals or whatever.
So I decided to leave him to play happy families and go on my first UK shopping trip.
To cut a long story short, I hit the city centre with my toddler (remember: I know nobody so I couldn't leave him with a "friend". I toyed with the idea of locking him in the basement until I got back but somebody told me there are laws against that kind of thing in this country). And I, well, lurked. I loitered. I dragged the brat down back streets and tied him to a lamppost while I entered seedy venues.
Nothing. Nobody. I failed miserably.
Where I've just come from, I only had to glance around for a split second to find myself besieged by hopeful vendors vying for my attention. OK, bearing in mind that I really, really want to sample some herbal medication ASAP - how should I go about things in this country?