On the news today, I thought I heard that Poundland were buying the complete 99p Stores chain. Depressing, because I always find the mixture of Polish and English staff in the 99p shops really helpful and pleasant to deal with, whereas Poundland seems to employ the borderline unemployable. On yesterdays trip to Poundland for batteries, I was checked-out by a young "lady" who said "we haven't got a bag for that", then " This till's got no change" and just stood there staring with no hint of a smile or any action.
And BT taking over Orange or whatever it is means almost all of us will be bidding by proxy for the billions for the FA rights and the billions bid for EE.
I think I've lived too long.