Usually we shop on Sunday but as we needed a few things and Tigger did not have to go into the office, we did it today. For a change we visited the Sainsbury’s store in Camden Town instead of the one near where we live. It is bigger and easier to move around.

Sainsbury’s, Camden Town

There are two entrances but if you want to use a trolley you need to go to this, the back entrance, where they are to be found. There weren’t many, leading to an unseemly scramble but I eventually acquired one.

We surfed the shelves and rolled our booty to the check-out. I paid with my credit card on Apple Pay and received the benefit of a speech from the check-out lady, the burden if which was “Your credit card company is spying on you”. Er, thanks, we already know that. I don’t think the check-out staff should be lecturing customers in this way.

Costa Coffee

We rewarded ourselves for our labours by taking coffee at a nearby branch of Costa. We could have sat there a long time chatting but bestirred ourselves as we had two more tasks to complete.

Building 1889

Tigger needed something from Marks & Spencer and while she went inside, I waited outside with the shopping trolley. There was a dog attached to the cycle racks awaiting an owner inside the store and so I joined him!

Looking across Camden High Street, I saw the sun shining prettily on some buildings and so photographed them. The one above bears a date of 1889.

I couldn’t see a date on this building (perhaps there is one on the façade round the corner) but it must be of similar age to the previous one. The upper stories seem to be residential while the ground floor has been converted (or was originally built) as shops. It’s sad that businesses do not respect the original design and instead create garish shop fronts that clash with it. Money was never a respecter of good taste.

We next visited Lidl for a single purchase, so I again played Fido outside.

Having done this, we hauled our heavy trolley, and ourselves, onto the 214 bus back to the Angel.

A little sheepishly, I have to admit that that’s all we did of note today. We spent the rest of it at home. On the other hand, ominous signs are that lockdown, or some form of it, may have to be re-imposed in the near future as Covid-19 infections are increasing again and so we may have to become used once more to spending time confined to home and the local area. If we can accustom ourselves to it, so much the better.