This Writing Life

The fancy thoughts of novellist Ian Hocking

Category: shopping

Tacitus Schmacitus

Scott Pack replies to a Guardian piece by Stuart Jeffries that (according to Scott; I haven’t read it) is another ‘why can’t bookshops be like the old days’ article. Among other things, Scott writes: Less than a decade ago it would have been possible to walk into a branch of Waterstone’s, especially some of the [...]

★ Inconvenienced

Morrisons - GrrrrPretend you’re me.

You’re about to embark on a journey to the local supermarket – the Canterbury branch of Morrisons – for the components of a picnic lunch. If you like, pronounce ‘picnic’ as Yogi Bear would: “pic-a-nic”. Just get some salad, some sushi, a couple of drink yoghurts, and you’re golden.

Ready? Set?