The Time Bubble

Here's a thing that's been bugging me for a while now. I've got a pretty decent size fridge in my place. Yet the space within is constantly at a premium. I get back from Sainsbury's and I'm struggling to squeeze everything in. Yeah, yeah, I hear you thinking, he loves his meat and cheese etc, he shouldn't buy so much. Thing is, it's not those things that are crowding out the fridge. My problem is that I'm a permanent shelf down before I've even started. There is just no room whatsoever on the top shelf of the fridge, and I'll tell you why. It's because of all of the sauces. Now I'm not just talking about the standard sauces we all have. Most of us have a bottle of ketchup in there and a bottle of salad cream. My kids adore ketchup and it doesn't take long to get through a bottle. No, the problem is all the other stuff. Take mayonnaise for example. How many different types of that have we ended up with? There's standard H...

I don't know why, but I always find it absolutely hilarious when I see things that are blatantly where they shouldn't be - particularly if it's been done as some sort of light hearted devilment. We're all used to seeing supermarket trolleys in ditches and such like, but there was one scene in the sitcom One Foot In The Grave that had me in tears of laughter. Clearly the writers had tried to think of the most bizarre place one could end up. As Victor turned into his street in a taxi looking miserable as ever on the way back from another nightmare holiday, he happened to glance up, and there, perched on the rooftop was an abandoned supermarket trolley. What triggered this off, well I just happened to notice today on the way to school a traffic cone perched on top of a lampost. I have no idea how many supermarket trolleys or traffic cones disappear on an annual basis, but they do seem to end up in the most unsusual places. I know it's a blight on the landscape an...