Having just spent two hours doing the weekly shop at Tesco at Westwood I am wondering if I have missed something important on the news, It seems that folks are stocking up for either some bad weather or a siege. I have never seen so many people there on a Sunday morning or indeed with trolleys piled high with edible goodies or fattening crap depending on you point of view.
The whole point of the trip was to avoid the exorbitant £6 delivery charge now being levied at the time of Mrs. Grumpys favourite delivery slot. Readers will recall that she doesn’t mind being called ‘love’ by the delivery driver, unlike some people who seem to object. As usual the object of the exercise was completely missed as several things were purchased that having seen the glossy packaging and lurid advertising Mrs. Grumpy suddenly decided we desperately needed.
However I digress, what I am wondering is that if the plans that Tesco and Sainsbury’s have over on the dark side of the Island will ever come to fruition and if they do what effect, if any, will they have on their respective stores over here on the sunny side. While I understand that whether you spend your hard earned cash in Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, Morrison’s et al in Ramsgate, Redruth, Ramsbottom or Renfrew it all goes into the companies coffers I do wonder if they will have a negative effect on the amount of business done in the Westwood stores. On the plus side it may help to alleviate the traffic congestion in the Westwood area and co-incidentally reduce the carbon footprint.
Sitting here idly staring out of the window waiting for the much delayed France/Ireland rugby match to start and looking at the dull, grey, damp drizzly day outside I am suddenly overcome with a nostalgic longing for the long halcyon days of summer of my youth. Of course we also had some crap weather in the winter and I well recall the strange patterns created by the frost INSIDE the bedroom windows in the mornings, no central heating back then. Now we all live in centrally heated hermetically sealed houses all that is missing from children’s life education, that and snowballs, oh excuse me! I forgot that may upset some prematurely aged, prematurely wizened, childless shreiking harridan (or male equivalent) who thinks snowballs may encourage mindless violence in young people.
Anyway back to my long halcyon days of summer, following the couple of day’s really warm weather in the week when it was nice to feel the warm sun on my back I decided to get my gear ready for this years fishing season and clear my fishing shed out as well. Now when you have been doing something for over 60 years you seem to acquire all sorts of bits some of which must be antiques by now so as well as looking forward to the new fishing season I expect a few boot fairs will be in order as well.
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