Christ, there's two of them

Excitable small boy tells me something about a man and a knife. Its seems that we have a thief. Small boy wants to be a policeman and wants to shoot the thief. I presume that he wants to be a Brazilian Policeman

Does Bury produce the best black pudding? I don't know but shopper is convinced. It is so black that even the white bits are black.

A picture of Cheryl Cole on a magazine. I venture the opinion that she is not the best singer in Girls Aloud. I like the Irish girl and there is general agreement about this

Man ponders why is it that women never have card or money ready at the till. Its as if they don't think that they have to pay and only come to this conclusion when prompted. I recall watching a woman take minutes to open her purse. Everything seemed to be in slow motion like a Noh play

Couple with St Bernard. I ask about the Mike and Bernie Winters show which had the dog. When they were on the Empire at Glasgow a voice from the crowd shouted " Christ, there's two of them"

No Tripe

A woman buys Bury Black Pudding and we have a discussion on offal. I ask her whether she likes tripe. She does not but tells me that she had a guest over the weekend who wanted tripe but she had lots of foodstuffs in the house but sadly no tripe.

"I" newspaper is quite popular( not as popular as Daily Mail) man says that he used to take the Guardian and gave it up because of the cost. he hated the Daily Mail and in his youth used to read the Daily Herald.  My father used to take the Guardian from the 60s when people like Neville Cardus used to write for it

Man bought £250 worth of shopping although not a record as a group of doctors bought £400 once, mainly drink, for a weekend in a house in the country. I seemed to recall offering them a biblical tract