I am married with three children. I love horses and have a couple for myself and youngest daughter. ...
I am married with three children. I love horses and have a couple for myself and youngest daughter. I also love travelling. I particularly love North America and my family and I try to have a holiday there every other year.
Member since:28.05.2001
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I have had my eyes opened good and proper I can tell you. Last Saturday I was browsing through a store in a particularly affluent little village in Cheshire when I came across some funky little boxes with chrome twisted handles in beautiful pastel shades. I thought they would be ideal to go on the shelves in my new bathroom. You get the picture, some lovely soap from the Lush shop in them and perhaps a nice fluffy facecloth casually draped over the side. I picked one up to check out the price and nearly dropped it like a hot brick. £8.99! Is someone having a laugh? After all they are only half the size of a shoebox and probably only made from some kind of opaque plastic, but then again they would look lovely in that new bathroom. What a dilemma! I decided to resist and let common sense prevail.
Yesterday I had an hour to kill before picking up my daughter from swimming. I wandered around town, Marks and Sparks, Next, Littlewoods. As I sauntered back towards the car park there was Wilkinson’s, a store I have never actually been in before, as it seems to attract the rougher crowd in our town. You know the sort; maybe you’re one of them. The sort of women who are fat, tattooed, over pierced, usually heavily pregnant with a kid called Keanu or Britney in tow. You get the picture!
Well, I must have been feeling a bit brave, crazed, high as a kite, call it what you will but in a mad moment I decided to get in there and see what Wilkinson’s is all about. I strolled up and down the aisle with a little basket on my arm (I needed to look as if I was serious but no point in getting a trolley, I mean surely this store had nothing to interest me with all it’s cheap rubbish) Hello! What do I spot on the shelf ahead? Only the same funky little chrome handled boxes from the posh shop. I could hardly wait to get one down and see the price. 99pence. I nearly fainted. This was no cheap imitation but the exact same box eight quid cheaper. I ran back to the entrance to get my trolley and boy did I do some damage to my purse.
Wilkinson has everything. Clothes, toys, DIY section, household goods, plants, toiletries, rugs ornaments, just everything!!
I am a converted woman. I am booked for my first tattoo this weekend and the kids names are being changed by deed poll.
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Advantages: It sells everything, and at very reasonable prices. Disadvantages: In my local store the Security Guard is of undefined gender, and scares me ;)
Fuschia 30.03.2001 ·
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