Two Lidl visits in one day following this morning's shop for Mrs G at the same venue - the two couldn't have been more different, as when I arrived, the queue to pay was already snaking around two walls and every aisle was full of badly parked blue trolleys.

Thankfully Mr T's list was familiar and, this week, also quite short - so having parked the trolley next to the potato display to avoid further aisle congestion, I got to work hunting down what he wanted. Everything ticked off except the small tubs of natural yoghurt, which seem to have gone awol ("when it's gone, it's gone"...) these past few weeks - and Mr T can't consume a large single tub before it starts to go off...

As is usually the way on a Friday afternoon, it was chaotic in the paying area but a cash till miraculously appeared, and I was soon in rapid scanning and packing mode and back at Mr T's with his weekly treasure, whereupon we had a good catch on the world, and the snooker.

Mr T doesn't like to waste food, so he reached into the 1kg bag of carrots and handed me 3 "for yer tea" before I headed for home.