Window shopping

St Christian

Every Tuesday or Wednesday piles of leaflets pour into our letter box. All the local supermarkets, and there are many, want draw our attention to this week's special offers. One may have pork on special offer, another will have special deals on duck. We used to spend time looking through them just to see what possible bargain we might find this week, but nowadays we give them a more cursory glance and consign them to the recycling bin.

The only leaflets we give more time to these days are the DIY store leaflets. A new DIY store recently opened and it seems to have spurred its only real rival into action. However, the rival has two branches, one in each direction, both a half-day trip, of course, and these two branches never have the same things in stock. If we see something in one and don't have room for it but happen to be passing the other a few days later, it won't have it in stock, or it will be a completely different price. It's most frustrating.

This week we had a treat, three, yes three, leaflets from the wonderful stores Gifi and Foire Fouille. Now these are veritable treasure troves of shops. Readers may recall that Gifi is where we did our 'Christmas' shopping the other week. This time they have their Christmas decoration stock it. Ooh, I can't decide, shall I decorate my house in gold this year, or red and white? What about Venetian style? The options, it appears, are endless. I could even go for a black and white theme.

But then what about all those Christmas decorations we've collected over the years? The things that we had when the children were tiny and the baubles we bought in New York? No, I think we'll just get the baubles and tinsel and all those memories out again the same as every year.

Get those leaflets into the recycle bin quickly!