Groan!

Well I decided to go to the Grand Opening of the new M&S next door. Unfortunately I am writing this with one hand and I'm using the other to clutch my groaning stomach.

I just couldn't resist the fantastic array of gastronomic delicacies on offer and decided to indulge. It was a bit of a weird event. The carpark was the fullest that I've ever seen it and there was balloons and all manor of other tat outside the shop. Inside there was a 2-piece band (whom I just missed while they were taking a break) and there was champers and bucks-fizz for free.

The shop itself was the usual M&S affair. All the layout and selection was the same as every other M&S however, the clientelle were a bit different. All the old ladies with purple rinses and too many shopping bags were replaced with suits (a fair proportion of them I suspect were M&S employees) all purchasing sushi and hoi-sin duck.

I can't say that I was that willing to leave but my basket was filling up with enough food for 2 lunches so I hoi-sin ducked out ASAP having spent £13 (about £10 more than I wanted to spend - curse you Percy Pig). I was also feeling a bit too domesticated so I've just watched Jeremy Clerkson race an Apache Helecopter gunship round a race track in an Lotus while trying to avoid getting a missile lock - Awesome!

Anyway onto the honey roasted cashew nuts...