Do you remember the days when a trip to the Town Centre Shops was a reasonaably nice experience? You’d walk around in your own time, do a bit of Window Shopping, sit on a Bench maybe and watch the world go by.

Nowadays it seem’s that any Shopping trip ends up with you running the gauntlet [...]

..and why never to go again
Oh joy, another trip to the Supermarket today, full of the usual calamities, annoyances with a bit of a laugh thrown in between.

It all started well until I came to the M20 Roundabout. I was correctly positioned in the third from left Lane for where I wanted to go. The [...]

Shopping locally and being frugal
The purpose, for me anyway, of shopping frugally is to buy the least expensive and cost effective item with the smallest amount of financial outlay.
This brings about a dilemma. If you follow the above code, you are, if you’re not careful, assisting the demise of the Village, Corner and High Street [...]

Something which has not so much annoyed as mystified me over the last few days is this sudden impulse we Brits have of panic buying when there’s a bit of bad weather and also how it’s all influenced by some quarters of the Media.

I can fully appreciate those living in Rural Area’s having big problems [...]

After some first hand experience of late, I think I now reached my shopping choice conclusions and as much as I’d like the results to be opposite to what they are……..
Getting there
High Street
Get stuck in two traffic jams caused by road works getting tooted at because I didn’t jump the lights when they’d changed to [...]

Last Wednesday I took a trip down the local DIY Superstore to buy a few bits and pieces and being the middle of the week, I thought it was a good time to go, not many people around and it would be a stroll - wrong.
I arrived there to find the Car Park remarkably full, [...]

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To reduce any fears the French may have had before the planned War against England, Napolean 1 said to his people “L’Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers.”
‘England is a nation of Shopkeepers’.
Maybe not altogether so, for centuries it certainly has been one of our strength’s. The Shops in Towns and Villages were a meeting place [...]

The old Victor Meldrew syndrome in me is coming to the fore again. If there’s something which usually puts me in that ‘you’ll never believe what happened to me yesterday’ flow, it’s when I’ve ventured by Car down to the Town.
Yesterday is a fine example. I had two jobs to do, 1. Go to the [...]

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Last weekend, the Electric Cooker packed up. Today I had a day off and thought I’d go and pick one up from the two fairly newly opened major Household Appliance Stores in Ashford.
I had a quick scour around the Net beforehand and found that both Stores sold the same one at the same £149 price. [...]

It was a simple plan; Get petrol, go to PC Store for Camera Case, pay Cheque in Bank (rarity), buy Cat Food and come home.
The total mileage for this should be 7 miles and take 55 minutes tops. But no, life isn’t that simple is it…..
Half way to Petrol I get held up. Two foreign [...]