Westfield Shopping Centre has opened perilously close to our home: a fifteen minute walk away, to be exact. Ordinarily, a new shopping centre might be something to shrugged at (or possibly feared, with the likely adornment of scrofulous, hoodie-wearing, scowling adolescents hanging around) – but Westfield is different. And it scares me. Westfield is no [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shopping’
The New Threat On Your Doorstep
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Shopping, Westfield, Wife on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Town For Shopping
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Acclaimed Photographer Friend, Good Friend in PR, Shopping, Soho House, Wife on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We went to a TOWN OF SHOPS. A whole TOWN. Of SHOPS. This is Wife’s idea of town planning, and my idea of hell. I don’t mean that typical male cliche of “I can’t stand shopping, me” – but let me put the facts before you. We arrived (on a coach, which was something of [...]
Wife. A Tale of Ordinary Madness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Maniac, New York, Shopping, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 26th May 2007 Yes. Yes. The dollar IS weak right now. How does that translate itself into a shopping trip that made me gasp, though? How did phrases such as “Cartier bracelet”, “Cartier rings” (note the plural, please m’lud), Dolce E Gabbana snakeskin heels and “Most of Ralph Lauren” become part (hell, most of) [...]
Bibbins and Bobbins
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Shopping, Sister on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 11th November 2007 We spent a shitload of money on utter shit today. Not quite sure how we managed to do it, but we managed to spunk away £200 and return home with almost nothing. We did get a few things: a “Christmas present” for Best Friend and some presents for Sister. Oh YES! [...]
Irresistible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Le Manoir Aux Quatre Saisons, Shopping, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 30th November 2007 Wife is accompanying me to a Black Tie work dinner at Le Manoir Aux Quatre Saisons in a couple of weeks – and her choice of outfit has been exercising her somewhat. So, today (when I had a day off), we went shopping to find her a seventh or eighth alternative [...]
