Shopping madness
The world's gone bonkers - well the female world in the UK anyway. I just don't understand the current shopping frenzy - I mean queuing outside of Primark. Primark!!!!! There's one in Peckham and I've never seen a queue there. I'm pretty sure they sell the same gear.
The one that's actually made me cross though, is the Anya Hindmarch 'I'm not really a bag I'm just another ridiculous PR story' incident. Although to be fair, I can see how it may have started as a very worthy idea, but let me ask you this: how many of those deranged women who stood in a queue for 24 hours to get this 'carrier bag' will actually use that to get their shopping from Asda?
Zero. None. Zilch. Bugger all.
It was just an excuse to get a cheap 'it' bag, which I guarantee is already on the 'going down' bit of any deserving fashion barometer. So for all the environmentally worthwhile thinking behind it, they'll still be cramming their lasagne-for-one in a plastic bag. For the record, Waitrose do very nice re-usable bags that you can recycle when they get worn out.
So, back to the bare-knuckle fighting scenes on the High Street. The only 'gotta have it' item I can vaguely understand is the anti-ageing serum from Boots. A therapist near me has tested it on her hand and I'm telling you it's staggering. There is a patch on her hand which is smoother than the rest - remarkable - it really is.
So you'll see me at 3am queuing outside Boots Oxford St the minute they announce it's back in stock.
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