I know, it’s a bank holiday, but Upper Street was unusually quiet.
Upper Street Was Quiet
You couldn’t say Carluccio’s or Waitrose were busy either.
And now it’s started raining.
As I’ve said many times before, when I become the dictator, bank holidays will be the first thing to get banned.
August 27, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | World | Bank Holiday, Islington, Shopping, Weather
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
The people who were normally there had probably got a train to Manchester, acquired five small whiney children, and gone to the Trafford Centre. it was awful!
Comment by Liz P | August 27, 2012 |
I’ve been to the Trafford Centre and the only way people get there is by car. That means you take the kids. Eastfield gets its quota of kids too, but if I want to shop sensibly, I go to one of the shops in the City or Oxford Street.
When I go to M & S, I usually go to the big one at Moorgate. It’s just a bus ride away and the food is as good as any.
Comment by AnonW | August 27, 2012 |
Free buses run every few minutes from nearest tram and rail stations to TC, and it has a huge bus station at one end and an excellent us service. So it is actually well served bu public transport, it is just that it isnt very visible. The bus station is at the Debenhams end. The free buses collect and drop off by Orient main entrance, but are minibuses not big buses.
Comment by Liz P | August 27, 2012 |
I bet the buses aren’t wheelchair friendly either! Manchester buses are straight out of the 1970s.
Comment by AnonW | August 27, 2012 |
Some are, but I have never tried to use a wheelchair on one. At present I am trying to get myself able to propel my own chair rather than use a scooter or be pushed. lower arms and hands weak, and will remain so due to damage to nerve supply, but am doind a lot of upper body and back workouts.
Comment by Liz P | August 27, 2012 |
When you become a Dictator, would like you to Review Bank Executives & give Many of them a Permanent Bank Holiday {without pay or bonuses}.
Comment by Steam Lover | August 27, 2012 |
I have feeling that will happen. Over here, we’ve just started to see the effects of a ruling that financial advisors can’t take commission and must charge for their services. There are loads looking for other work.
Retail banks will be replaced by the Internet and the banks left doing this will probably be co-operatives or building societies. Do you have building societies in Oz? I bank with one! Our ancestors got it right!
My old bank manager friend always said that the 1990s would be to banking, like the 1970s were to the coal industry here. He just got his dates a bit early.
Comment by AnonW | August 28, 2012 |
In Oz fifty years ago, we had Food being produced & sold by Cooperatives {unfortunately these have gone}
Building Societies have been thriving, and are alive & well . . . thank goodness . . .
Comment by Steam Lover | August 29, 2012 |
We have a few building societies left and Nationwide is one of the biggest banks. I use it for all my money transfers, although I don’t borrow from it. In fact the way tings are going, Zopa and the other peer-to-peer lenders will take over a lot of lending. In a way, they’re a modern incarnation of a building society.
In retailing, the supermarket with the biggest growth is Waitrose, which is part of John Lewis. JL is a partnership, where all employees are partners and share in the profits. John Lewis is a very unique British institution.
Comment by AnonW | August 29, 2012 |