FINDING WISDOM IN TESCO’S Tesco has not been here as long as I have. First the store was a Co-Op where elderly ladies managed the tills strictly from 9.30 to 5.30. It closed, they told me, because they could not compete with the corner shops that stayed open till late and whose family members worked … Read more
I was standing waiting for the lights to change when a woman said to me ‘You look just like a painting by Holbein.’
I’m darning my cardigan. It was second-hand anyway; from Oxfam, but still I darn it. Years ago, in the 60’s there was a seminal article in The Guardian by Katharine Whitehorn. I think it was called ‘How to be a Slut’ and described the marks of such i.e., if the button comes of a skirt, … Read more