...is simply best done by bike. The traffic in two towns I went to today was the worst I've seen for ages. As for the supermarket carparks, the drama/commotion! ~2000 cars and ~800 spaces always leads to some 'situations', but add in xmas pressure and courtesy and 'goodwill to all men' goes right down the crapper. Breezed in past all of the queueing traffic on the FJ and parked right outside the doors. 10mins sorting out the last few bits/nibbles/ESB/HSB/Summer Lightning and just got to the basket-only tills when they opened another one. Sorted. It looked like it almost came to fisticuffs in Sainsburys where two fairly well-to-do women were tugging at the same package of something or other, with cries of "Bitch" etc. Quick stop at Lidls to get the Weissbier and Liebkeuchen sp? (German ginger biscuits) that the kids like and a then good thrash home. Keys hung up. Party munchies in the oven. Beer opened. Xmas now _officially_ begins. Seasons greetings from deepest Wiltshire to all denizens of UKRMl. <coherency in posting now goes totally out of the window for the next few days> <note to self: Stay away from ebay at all costs> JB
