Nowt so queer as folk [2]
Hey everybody! The forecast is for snow! Yippee! The kids will try and get a couple of days of school; people will be cautious about travelling – not just to work, but anywhere; and we will no doubt be pleased to admire the rare beauty of our land covered with the divine duvet of snow which makes the planet look cleaner and pure.
And – the supermarkets shelves have been cleared by panic buying!! Why? Are we unable to survive for a couple of days with what we have in our fridges and larders? Surely – this is a great opportunity to clear the last of the turkey, those courgettes that are just starting to look like Gordon Ramsey’s chin, and that odd looking fruit that we can’t remember the name of! Come on guys, it’s OK to rekindle the survival spirit, the classic British stiff-upper-lip – but clear the shelves of the supermarket? Doh!
A little amusing diversion. I was needing to get some few essentials quite late at night last week, on my way home from an appointment, and called in at the Tesco Extra on the Southampton Road out of Salisbury. I reckon you could live in that supermarket, and survive for weeks without any great loss of lifestyle. You have an optician, a pharmacy, a bureau de change, a restaurant, home and wear, toilets, electrical and kitchenware, car accessories, home decorating etc, etc, and oh yes, they stock some food [or at least they did last week!]
I wonder if anyone has actually spent the week in there – and would anyone notice?
