Primark

Down to Primark in Broadmead, Bristol yesterday to buy jeans. A year after it had become necessary, I finally downsized my trousers from 36" waist to 34" waist; an end to looking like a silent comic.

For fun I tried on an 'ultra skinny' pair - could barely get them on - and in the mirror saw an older version of a very garrulous comic.

But no, I am not Russell Brand's embarrassing dad: they went back on the rails.

As we walked around Cabot Circus, I remarked to Clare that something very strange is happening: almost none of the shoppers we saw were fat ...

Bargains! Bargains!

Nothing is more tedious than the journal of other people's shopping. Suffice it then to say that we visited Broadmead in Bristol this morning, Clare bought a Gore-Tex jacket for 144 pounds (with YHA discount) from Berghaus, and I bought three pairs of jeans (pictured below, one pair exhibited) for 8 pounds each at Primark.

Waist 40" replaced by waist 36" since you ask .. and trying reasonably hard not to be smug!