Blog Norwich

I have to drive somewhere on Thursday evenings. It’s not a particularly difficult journey, just up the city. So why, at 5.30, is the entire combined population of Taverham, Sprowston, Costessy and Hellesdon converging up the city centre in their Nissan Bastard trucks, queueing halfway round the ring road, just to get to a shop that might be open late for 1 day a week? Its been like this since August. Is it Christmas or something? Are you people mad? What possible reason could you have for sitting in a traffic queue on Thursday teatime, watching the car park spaces count down on the big boards they have on the arterial roads? Is there a sale at Primark? Is it a 2-for-one deal at Greggs bakers?

All I want to do is take a little trip from A to B and back again, which happens to be across the city centre, and you dullards are clogging up the place with your tongues hanging out like some mad shopping dogs on heat. If this is what being the fifth most popular shopping destination in Britain is about, them I’m moving to Ipswich, for all that culture.