It’s quite hard I’ve decided to cycle around in the dark, looking at all the shops to see what they are, trying to pay attention to the road and the cars stopping in front of you, pulling out and passing you, then there’s the endless supply of pedestrians stepping out and finally trying to keep a mental note of what roads you’ve just cycled down for the first time and how they relate to where you live. Makes things interesting though.
Anyway it turns out that the Tesco’s is brand new and shinny. Why’s it cool, well all the prices are displayed on little LCD displays on the aisles making updating prices painless I guess. Also it’s got self service tills, basically you swipe your shopping in front of the barcode reader yourself and then swipe your club card and credit/debit card or give it some cash. Very novel and quite cool in a geeky way when you first meet it.
The weekend has been fairly quite, my Scouts got to take part in a district wide camp on Friday night, most of them turned up so that was good. Saturday, I watched England take on the South Africa and win in a less than convincing fashion. Then I wondered into town and went shopping. Much to my surprise there’s a huge mall in the centre of Brighton. It’s only a surprise cause it doesn’t look like a huge mall from the outside. It’s quite cool the way you get malls in the centre of old town’s in the uk which just seem to expand and grow underground. Norwich comes to mind, as does Paris though that is obviously France:) I bought the new Belle and Sebastian album.. I’ll maybe pass comment at some point.
Ireland beat Namibia today which was to be expected. I think they need to recycle the ball faster if they want to beat Argentina next week. I also cycled down to Shoreham-by-sea to check out the climbing wall there. It’s quite small, though not the smallest wall I’ve seen. It’s brand new but unlike most new walls lacks any significant featured walls. Though it looks ok and is only 6 miles down the road. All I need to do now is find someone to climb with.
And now, it’s time to sleep.