Mr T had neatly divided today's list into Tesco/Lidl, and after we'd caught up with each other over our respective Christmases and then embarked on a long and fascinating conversation involving most of Mr T's neighbours of times past and his more recent kitchen plumbing travails, I took the trolley for one of it's longest excursions to date to the larger Tesco near Goodge Street to hopefully find the soup, bread, milk and burgers that he particularly wanted.

With part one successfully completed, it was then a quick trip around the familiar aisles of lidl to pick up the remaining items on his list, including the Brussels sprouts (where were you before Christmas?). After negotiating the usual mayhem at the cash registers, I was soon back to drop off his supplies for another week.