Lidl in Sovereign Arcade (mall) will have tough competition from the new Aldi on Palmerston Road. Le ballon jaune et Papa. Louise Jury, Chief Arts bod, Evening Standard, report about the ‘Dan Dare And The Birth Of Hi-Tech Britain’ exhibition running at The Science Museum until 25 October, admission free. Nidl Nadl Noo Island movie opening (here in PBC) is today. Labour local swing (in the backwards direction).
04h51-BST Friday 02 May 2008-CE
Aldi on Palmerston Road opened yesterday and was packed. It is quite a big store for Aldi. The car park is an awkward shape. There are chaining bars for five bicycles. Lidl in the Sovereign Centre had its balloons, primrose yellow with red and blue logo, filled with helium and tied in triplets to bottles of water placed all around the place. The Lidl offer of £3 off if you spend ten on non-food goods only, seemed to have quite a few takers.
A boy of about seven had just checked out with his mother and he was eyeing the back of the guy in the corner who was inflating more balloons using the helium bottle. He let them float to the ceiling where he could reach the ribbon dangling from each. I was sad that the man did not notice, behind him, the boy and his obvious desire to have a balloon. The boy made several sallies forth in the direction, but eventually off he and his mother went.
After I finished packing my back-pack on that useful shelf that Lidl has (Aldi do them too) a man, with the boy following, came striding into the store. He must have been waiting in the mall getting some sanity whilst the wife and the boy shopped. So the polite little guy got his free promotional balloon. Now he knows the deal. Balloons are available to have. Next time he will be not afraid. He will ask and one shall be given unto him.
Louise Jury in the Evening Standard, Wednesday, did a small piece as Chief Arts Correspondent about the ‘Dan Dare And The Birth Of Hi-Tech Britain’ exhibition running at The Science Museum until 25 October, admission free. I will go by train or coach. It covers the post-war research & development boom. Advance is best driven by threat (Henry #8, US Civil War, WW1 & WW2) but NASA Apollo Program, a peaceful version, giant-leaped us more.
I must see Nim’s Island today if possible. I ate too many well-ripe Kiwi fruit yesterday morning and had the trots. I went and ate some more yester-eve and woke at 03h00 (2½ hours ago) with a touch of the same condition. Labour is riding the pendulum swing away from power, as is to be expected after ten years. A hard-faced, loony-Left Marxist-fascist was doing the “we are being punished by the People for abandoning our roots” usual crap.
FIN 05h48
