we don't do it often ...

go shopping, that is. Bristol Broadmead is horrible, filled with people with no manners, who we don't know. But I needed a tax disc for one of the cars, so off we went to brave the horrors.

and it's as well that we don't go very often, as we came home with a Gap haul of three pairs of trousers, four shirts, a sweater and a leather bag. And then there was the camera tripod, and a battery and charger for perlmonger's Canon IS90 (the latter pair costing UKP 90, if you please). And some cat fud tin covers, an extension lead, a jelly bag. Oh, and a ridiculous little Leatherman Juice XE in purple metalflake - I simply had to have it, once I realised it had a corkscrew.

oh yes - then there were the lovely little glass espresso cups with metal handles - we bought nine of them. Really, we're not fit to be let out ...