Archive for November 2006
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Christmas creeps
Debenhams had a sale on today, slashing prices by up to 25%. I was, naturally, happy with this when I entered the store after work. The queues were long, but tolerable. The piped Christmas music, however, jarred.
We are only halfway through November. The outside air temperature is an unseasonal 13 degrees. Debenhams, for crying out [...]
Reading spurred on
A confession: I was in town, on a shopping mission, and missed the bulk of arguably Reading’s best game of the season to date, their home clash against Spurs.
Drifting into the electronics section of House of Fraser (ground floor, if you’re interested) I was suddenly drawn to a large Bose screen broadcasting the match. I [...]
Choc to the system
Hotel Chocolat, a shop that sells grown-up (as I like to describe it) chocolate products, has opened in The Oracle. Hotel Chocolat offers all sorts (and I don’t mean of the liquorice kind) of luxury goodies, such as highly creative-looking half-kilo slabs (slate-like bars containing pieces of fruit) to more conventional drinking chocolate.
As a fan [...]
A taxing issue
What is it with Reading taxis?
Last Sunday night, I called three taxi firms, requesting that they send a cab to my place. Two failed to turn up. The fact that a driver finally presented himself 45 minutes after I made that initial call (arriving at 12:30am) is unacceptable.
Yet again, poor customer service let me down. [...]
