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The Old Normal And The New
Most weeks we get a food delivery from one of the big supermarkets. This week Ailz went with Waitrose- which is a novelty- and for the first time since Covid we had a delivery man who didn't just hand over at the doorstep but carried his boxes through to the kitchen. I told him how impressed I was and he seemed surprised- as though he'd never known any different.
I thought, "Finally things have returned to normal" but, of course they haven't. Since Covid the world has changed- but this was an odd little flash of how things used to be.
Talking about how the world has changed- but in a different register- I notice that journalists are using the term "Civil War" to describe what is going on in L.A.- where anti-ICE activists are now facing off against the Marines.....
I thought, "Finally things have returned to normal" but, of course they haven't. Since Covid the world has changed- but this was an odd little flash of how things used to be.
Talking about how the world has changed- but in a different register- I notice that journalists are using the term "Civil War" to describe what is going on in L.A.- where anti-ICE activists are now facing off against the Marines.....
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When we came over in 2008, I found out a week before our trip that I'd been made rendundant and thus was in a bit of a financial panic (which ended up being for nought). Just to add to it, the pound was very strong against the dollar just then so everything was a king's ransom. We ate a lot of ready-made Waitrose sandwiches!
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Waitrose has a name for being the rich man's supermarket- and their produce therefore of the highest quality. Whether this is really the case I don't know....
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