Retail & Shopping
Just when the expensive summer holidays have been safely waved away – the thoughts of that lovely sunny villa holiday on the Algarve rapdily fading as the normality of domestic life hits us as we land, instead of crying in our beer, coffee, lemon green tea . . . now is just the right time […]
My word the airports in May were grim. Because the pandemic had caused airlines to revisit how they retained staff during pandemics, many of the cheaper end of the market find themselves without enough staff to do each plane. The airlines accepted furlough cash from the Treasury to offset the cost of paying staff salaries […]
Well after two years of covid restricted life, lockdowns, companies going bust, more people estimated to be at risk than actually happened etc. the country was in no mood for another set of regimented issues. This year when the holiday season started, slightly earlier in February, many families just went berserk with their spending. they […]
There was an occasion not too long ago when I was charged with escorting two granddaughters down into their city centre for the purpose of getting addiitonal items of school uniform and a present for their Dad’s birthday. Apparently this was a much dreaded expedition – the younger lass had been banging on about the […]
I thought I was dreaming a little while ago – living in a nice family house on an executive style estate with a standard sized back garden, I was surprised to hear chickens making that familiar clucking, hiccing sort of noise that chickens do. I didn’t think too much of that at the time, until […]
It can be so difficult in the winter months to generate any interest in shopping and retail therapy of any kind. I tend to stay indoors much of the time and only venture out for a healthy walk a couple of times a week. My mind cannot cope with the rest of me feeling utterly […]
Knowing all the way to shop for gifts, homeware, kitchenware, every kind of ware . . . . At one time we were content to go down to our local high street accepting whatever was in stock and, in our price range. For the longer term purchase such as new lounge suite, then travelling to […]
We’ve seen so many changes to our ways of operating in recent years that it’s hard now to think back to the days of automatically strolling along the ‘high street’ for whatever we needed. Definitely gone are the trips to get a fancy dress for the lady wife from one of the selection of independent […]
Many of the things we buy via the internet are causing a bit of a problem on arrival now that brexit has actually occured and is in place. All the political wrangling and back biting has nearly gone away. Only to be replaced by confusion and mayhem when goods arrive at the port or at […]
Holidays are a mute point just at the moment. So many cruise lines have had problems that it’s a worry that my favourite form of holiday will not be able to survive! In these days of ever more exotic travel, in a normal years, it’s possible to plan and book trips to the most deserted […]