Shopping - Thematic Photography

I've made my views on shopping on here before, it's a way away from being a favourite activity of mine.

A long distance view is best

This is the garage shop at which I buy my daily newspaper.

As select as it gets

However if they have sold out by the time I get there I just have to cross another road to reach the newsagent which stocks other goodies.

I don't recognise them all

Sometimes in desperation I have to visit the supermarket round the corner - the one whose sign appeared in that first distance shot.

Parking penalty £70

How can anyone stay that long.

In actual fact that notice resulted from people parking there all day when the rail station car park is full, or to avoid parking charges in the town centre.

Sometimes however I have to load gardening products in the boot of my wife's car.

Rolls of artificial grass or water butts, for example

They never have compost when we want some it seems.

These days I prefer to shop -

With one click

I'm sure you will find more exciting shopping experiences by following others at Thematic-photographic-370.

Threesies - Thematic Photography

I've fooled about a bit today to meet Carmi's 'Threeies' theme. This Tuesday  is when our recycling  bins are emptied and there at the bottom of our drive were the empty containers for everyone to see.

Recycling containers

Blue box for glass; white bag (on side) for newspapers and on the right the larger white bag for cans, plastic and cardboard emptied every two weeks if you remember to put them out by the kerbside early in the morning.

The local fields are full of pregnant ewes; it will soon be lambing time. I see them every day when I walk to fetch a paper.

 A threesome in waiting

I have to pass the village playing field on the way and it has a colourful threesome on show.

Playground threesome

When my wife arrived home from the shops I found a threesome threesie among her goods. It didn't photograph very well.

Three threesies

If you could read the labels, reading left to right for each column, there is a threesie for £10 and two threesies for £6.

I decided I'd better be more serious for my next two threesies and return to Tresco on the Isles of Scilly.

Tresco Abbey Gardens
Statue of the Dorien-Smith children, symbolic of the freedom of the islands

This permits me to finish with a threesie of our own.

Adrian, Andrew & Rachel, Cromwell's Castle, Tresco 2008

So you have eight threesies to pick from here and I'm sure you'll find lots of others via Thematic-photographic-279.

Let's go shopping - Thematic Photography

I'm afraid that 'shop' is a four letter word to me which is not improved by adding 'ping'. I usually stay at home when someone suggests, as Carmi has done this week, "Let's go shopping."

However rather than be churlish I extended my morning walk today as far as the local shops - all five of them - that deserve our support.

Newsagent's shop

You may not realise that all five shops are shown above - four entrance doors and the white wall of the fifth. The Newsagent sells a range of stationery not just newspapers and magazines. From the front it looks like this,

Newsagents

You can spend some time studying the small ads offering goods and services displayed in its windows even if it is a cold, but sunny winter's day.

Should you get tired of all the Christmas fare you could sample some meals at home from the next two shops.

Fast food outlets

That small notice in the Presto Pizza window says that they will even be open from 4 pm on Boxing Day and New Year's Eve. Should you finish with indigestion than perhaps you may need to visit Whitworth's the chemist shop at the end.

The final shop has changed hands several times in 20 years but has always been a small supermarket. Now it is part of the Group that has been awarded the accolade of 'Supermarket of 2013' by 'Which', the consumers magazine.

If you were to look closely you might see the 'Which' award on the red sign in the front window wishing us a Merry Christmas.

Aldi Supermarket, Yarm

That concludes my shopping trip; to see others, cross over to Thematic-photographic-274.

Here's hoping you all have a very Merry Christmas.

Shopping for Thematic Photography

I have to declare that my heart sank when I saw this theme. Over the years I've worked hard at avoiding shopping,  with some measure of success. I thought I had used up all my photos, deliberately taken, of shops in my recent post Sepia Saturday takes the biscuit.

However I managed to find a few.

Stocks Hill, Ketton

If you look closely you will see a flower shop. Ketton is the Rutland village in which I was born in a house less than 100 yards away from this shop. Then it was a grocer's run by Mr Hall. It was here during WWII that I bought a gobstopper a day with pennies left for me by my brother Arthur when he went off to war.

I've mentioned several times before that I worked in Norway for a number of years. So I can add some 'shopping' pictures from Stavanger.

Stavanger - Torget - SS Norway visit

Torget means the square and this is the place where the market is held and just the place to go for fish. Away from the square there are busy shopping streets like the one below and whose name escapes me now.

Stavanger shopping street

I also caught Torget at a busy time.

Torget on Market Day

Now I live in a village in North Yorkshire a few miles outside Yarm where the High Street was once voted the Best in Britain.

Yarm - Georgian High Street

Yarm High Street on Gala Day

(Taken from a window in the Town Hall)

For more on the dreaded  theme 'shopaholics' should visit Carmi at Thematic Photographic 160