There is a rather grating local accent in use by the denizens of certain parts of the tayn (that's how they pronounce town, for example), which is arguably as bad as Estuarine. Strangely, it is not present in rural Berkshire.
Reading - proud to be home to the head office of Primark - I bet you are very proud too Andy :-)
What's Primark?
Come and see the new branch when it opens in High Wycombe. We're going up market, we are. :-)
So this is a shop?
Chav central clothing. Taking over the soon-to-be-redundant M&S in town soon.
Reading looks good when you remember that a couple of stops up the railway gets you to...
"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!"
(Betjeman, 1937)
And I'd forgotten until re-reading that another verse is
"It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead"
Nowadays of course several DAB stations *are* playing birdsong...
Andy
Its a really exclusive, up market, top quality, fashion shop Andy. So exclusive that most of the customers are A list celebs disguised to look like Chavs, so the paparazzi don't spot them.
You should try it, but wear a disguise.
Have M&S moved elsewhere?
Sort of like Prince Harry you mean?
Look at picture 7 of this set.
I like one of the middle verses:
"Come, bombs and blow to smithereens Those air -conditioned, bright canteens, Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans, Tinned minds, tinned breath."
Yes - the new "Eden" shopping centre. To open March 13. We are looking forward to it. We really are. We really really really are.
M&S supposedly much larger - but I don't re4ally know yet.
I see.
I do occasionally go to High Wycombe for one of two reasons:
- John Lewis. One can park there for nothing.
- Isaac Lord. A veritable Aladdin's cave with staff having a very good customer service ethic.
This Eden place appears to be kind of between the two.
the map under "Where's Eden" at
No, not Lidl. Thats obviously an Aldi leek.
Dreadful, isn't it? The map.
Walk from Isaac Lord (main shop - not trade counter) towards town centre and Eden looms in front/to the left of you in no time.
There are dire predictions of traffic in HW getting much worse. Parking charges are going up to discourage people parking. So the idea of attracting new customers to HW seems to have disappeared. Currently more expensive to park at Sainsbury in HW than Waitrose in Henley (before going up here).
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:34:22 +0000, Rod had this to say:
What - you PAY to park at Sainsbury's?
Around here you don't - but it's a comfortable walking distance for me from home anyway (about ½ mile, just past the dry ski slope).
The message from Andy Hall contains these words:
I think you will find that that spring onion is a small leek. No doubt an organic leek from his home farm. :-)
'fraid so. Partner has health problems but is not eligible for a blue disc. Mostly use Morrisons... even if I sometimes walk round to JS as well.
One pound for 2 hours - refundable if you spend more than £15.
30p for 30 minutes non-refundable.Henley Waitrose 40p for an hour - refundable if you spend more than £10.
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:33:16 +0000, Rod had this to say:
If a supermarket tried to charge me to park in their car park I'd tell 'em to get stuffed, and go elsewhere. You are doing them a favour by shopping there - they ought to be happy to accomodate you.
Public-type car parks in city/town centres are somewhat different.
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