10am on a Friday morning is quickly becoming a recurring “meeting” in my work diary – one which involves a trip to Waitrose for the lovely Ms J. After exchanging pleasantries, Ms J explained a few curveball items she had added to the list this week – she wanted a block of vanilla ice cream, and some tinned soft cod roes in place of a few of her usual suspects (once again, to my surprise, there were no lamb chops on the list!)

I thought I’d be able to pick everything up from Waitrose in one fell scoop, but alas – they were completely out of ice cream! A quick trip down to Tesco set me straight; although the vanilla ice cream was not a ‘block’ as requested, but more of a rounded tub. Nevertheless, Ms J was very grateful that I had managed to find some for her. We wished oneanother a nice weekend, and I headed back to work to round off another week.