Advent Calendar 2014: Day One
Christmas! Christmas is on its way! And we’re allowed to say that today, as today is actually December. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year
Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today
Tag: Supermarket
October 23, 2014
They do not love you
The problem with Robert Appelbaum’s book Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption lies with me. Read the rest of this entry »
October 26, 2013
The Saturday Morning Shop
I love Saturday mornings. I’m sure I’m not alone in that, but I really love Saturday mornings. I also like routines. So for a while as a kid it was watching cartoons. Then it was going to a local museum’s kids club, where every week I seemed to concentrate on the fine art of brass rubbing. When I was a little older I went to football practice, although there wasn’t an actual football team, which was odd. Then I was a little older still and going out to look around the local record shops, none of which exist now. By adulthood I just aimed to be out the house before the end of Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2. When I achieved that I felt I hadn’t completely wasted my morning. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year 