Ten days of shopping differently

Things have come to a pretty pass when I look back over the past week and think that the most interesting thing I have done has been shopping. Does it make matters better to point out that I regard shopping - ordinary, routine, grocery shopping - as a problem still to be solved? Despite one or two excellent shops (the cheese stall at the market, the greengrocer in the North Road) Durham is not the greatest place for grocery shopping. If we take the car into town once a week for the heavy shopping, then we don't need to hit the out of town supermarket not more than once a month, and still get everything I need - though not all of the fancier things I'd like. And if we run out of fresh veg or some basic ingredient, I can walk down into Durham: I could do this more often than I do, but I'm too lazy - and anyway, I'd end up wasting so much time checking the books in the charity shops - so I try to keep it down to once a week.

( This week has been different. )

Next time: something more interesting (probably).