JUST BEEN INTO MORPETH...

And you would have thought we were in the week before Christmas. Not because of the weather, just because, I assume, people seem to have gone into party, festive, bonkers mode because of the World Cup. Parking was almost impossible, even before 10.00. The shops were crazily packed with customers stocking up on food like it's going out of fashion. Absolutely ridiculous. All I wanted was a couple of packs of bread rolls and some coffee beans and that took me two hours! I need to support our local shop more than I do. Charles reckons it's too expensive, but take petrol costs out of the equation and I don't reckon it'll cost that much more.