Basildon Musings

We cycled in to Basildon this morning. The first shop we went to was Maplin and the lad said items over a certain amount are removed and just the empty boxes are displayed because of the incidents of theft. They can't even leave batteries out without them getting stolen, he said. Then we went into the bakers and the lady suggested we moved our bags to under the seat because there's been a spate of bag snatching.

You might be thinking the day didn't start very well, but that's not true. We stopped at one point to take a picture (see blog above ...). There were two lads sitting on a seat, one with a mobile phone. One of them asked us if we enjoyed our cycling, where we had come from, etc. There are nice lads out there - even if they are wearing hoodies!

But back to the bakery. They advertised a "Meal Deal" of a sausage roll, jam doughnut and a bottle of water for £1.49. A meal deal it may be, but not a balanced meal deal! My wife did, however, point out that it was diet water!

At this point I was making notes, so I'd remember what to blog and thinking back to the thefts from Maplins I wrote down "battery knickers", then realised there shouldn't be the 'k' at the beginning of 'nickers'. My wife, seeing what I had written, said, "That would bring tears to the eyes!"

It wasn't too serious a trip to Basildon.