Islington Gets Another Mobile Phone Shop!
My chiropodist has gone and Upper Street has another mobile phone shop.
Islington Gets Another Mobile Phone Shop!
They won’t get me to indulge in a smart phone. In fact sometimes, I think about giving up my mobile phone altogether to annoy those that insist on having the number.
Buying Single Pens That Work
I always seem to forget something when I go out. Normally it’s just a clean tissue, but a couple of times lately, I’ve forgotten to take a pen with me to do the Sudoku.
Surprisingly, the only place you seem to be able to get a simple Bic pen that works is in Rymans. Other shops want to sell you at least a dozen, or some elaborate pen at a couple of quid.
An Enjoyable Afternoon
I must be one of few men, who likes going clothes shopping with ladies. I often did with C and I do wonder if it all started with my mother teaching me how to make clothes and making them for C in the early years of our marriage.
My mother was an expert dressmaker and in the days after the war, when money was short for us, she would even make trousers for me, by cutting the flies out of someone’s cast off and then build a new pair on them. Remember in those days, boys were in shorts until thirteen on so, probably to save money.
I suppose the best thing I ever made for C, was a long winter coat. So she had one, when they became fashionable and most of her friends didn’t.
With C, I used to have the knack of taking a dress off the rack and saying that will suit you. Sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong.
But I do know, from my computing experiences with graphics and my skill in engineering drawing, that I did have the ability to imagine well in 3-D.
Whether it is undiminished after the stroke I do not know.
So yesterday, a friend, who’s going to a wedding in New York later in the year, dragged me along, to see if I could help. She needed a smart day dress.
Her problems with clothes are two-fold.
The first is genetic, in that she is not tall at all, but with a very good figure and a very small waist. The second, is that she has no patience for clothes shopping and was very likely to do a runner.
In some ways, it developed into a scene not unlike that of Grace Brothers, more though in the jokes and things that were said, than the characters involved.
The classic was when the patience-rich assistant said that that most dresses they had were for older ladies and my friend was a lot younger. She then announced her age to everyone. The assistants had a good laugh, but the lady behind, who was also looking for a similar rather formal dress didn’t. But then she had a figure that would be extremely difficult to dress properly at all.
Some of the funniest cracks were reserved for whom the assistant thought would be at the wedding, whilst my friend was in the changing room. They were also said with actions, showing the size of people expected.
After trying on three or four dresses of the six or so, brought to her, my friend actually bought one. She liked it and I’ve had a text to say that she still does.
So we all could retreat after success.
I should have days out like this more often!
What A Name For A Shop!
The picture says it all.
hat A Name For A Shop!
They probably do sell good furniture and possibly even make it or get it made!
But it is a name with connotations.
India’s Strike Against Foreign Supermarkets
Two Tesco stories in a row, must be some sort of record for this blog. But India has had a partial strike against opening up their economy to foreign supermarkets. It’s reported here on the BBC.
Perhaps, Tesco and the others, should strike and refuse to serve anybody, who looks like they come from the sub-continent. Or perhaps they could picket Asian corner-shops.
On the other hand there must be a compromise, which would be best for all!
Good Idea, Bad Packaging
It was a good idea of Waitrose to sell prepared onions.
Good Idea, Bad Packaging
But why do they put them in such terrible packaging. It was bad enough before I had the stroke, but now it’s downright impossible.
As they stick two packets together it makes it even worse. I’d just like to buy one prepared onion. Please!!
Wobbly Carrot Amnesty
The Times reports today, that because of the dreadful weather, the supermarkets are relaxing their standards for vegetables. The Times calls it a wobbly carrot amnesty.
Where is Esther Rantzen when you need her?
Upper Street Was Quiet
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.
The Highbury Corner littleWaitrose Just Gets Better
It’s now got goat’s milk and St. Peter’s beer and look at these two images of their free-from shelves.
It’s certainly a better selection than some of their bigger stores, with a very good selection from their range of gluten free products, like biscuits, cakes and bread.
The only products I can’t get are things that are heavy with a long shelf life, like beer and cleaning products, but I get those delivered from the Waitrose at the Angel, after buying them in-store. Incidentally, I haven’t used on-line shopping for groceries since I moved here.
A further point, is that later tonight, I checked the High Holborn littleWaitrose and the goods stocked and the layout of the Free From area, appeared to be the same or virtually so.
If this is a policy, I like it, as it means I can pick up a snack by just asking where the shelves are located. Assuming of course, that they haven’t run out.
So what would I change in a perfect world.
1. Waitrose usually has the EatNatural breakfast museli with buckwheat, whereas I prefer theone with vine fruit and have to buy it from Sainsburys.
2. The St. Helen’s Farm Goats Milk Yoghurt is not available in littleWaitroses.
3. There is no gluten-free beer in littleWaitroses. But I get those in once a month with the toilet cleanser.
In other words, I can live with that. But just as the goats milk has now turned up, I feel that if too many complain, adjustments to the stocking policy will happen.
Am I Getting Better At The Waitrose Self Check-Outs?
I seem to be getting at working the self check-outs in Waitrose. Could my left hand be getting better?
I doubt it. But I’m just learning to use it better!
It is certainly more use in typing!
The Anonymous Widower 