30 days without supermarkets #5: Goodbye tabloids & loyalty cards
I started this challenge partly out of a sense of utter disgust with the whole News of the World scandal. Whatever journalists did to get their stories, they did to…
Life without supermarkets #4 again: At last, satsumas you don’t throw away
I don’t really like satsumas, but I have to buy them for my parents who like them because they’re easy to peel and eat, and if you’re lucky, have no…
Krava-hydrates
Breakfast for me is a serious business: it’s got to be slow release, with protein, and low GI. I’m not an ascetic, I just like food too much: I’d no…
InvisibleHand add-on for Firefox
If you use Firefox and do internet shopping, Invisible Hand is a great add-on. It sits there quietly and unnoticed in your add-ons in Firefox, until you start looking at…
Give your money to charity, not Sainsburys
It often strikes me that a good way to collect money for charity would be to stand outside Starbucks or Caffè Nero and invite people to donate the £2 or…
Labour party street-spam in Tooting
Now you all know how much I love Tooting, and especially the terrific range of sweet shops, grocers and greengrocers. The glory of this area is its freedom from chain-stores…