Paranoid

Woman listening to “Black Sabbath” approaches till. “Paranoid”, I say adding I am not casting aspirations on her mental health

She is listening to “Masters of Reality”. Come to the wrong place I fear”

Rant against Daily Mail tho comment about unemployed wearing stars to distinguish them from Community Payback goes over head.

Work colleague agrees with me” All there is are zero contracts jobs”

Turns out she used to work for a clock makers in Longnor which went bust. Time ran out in a real and figurative sense.

Customer moving to Wales.Imagine he could buy a whole row of terraces in Blaneau Gwent for a few quid and have change for a pint and chips.

Man likes the Rudyard piece I wrote and is very congratulatory.

OAP buys Playboy body spray. “ I hope it works out for you I say”

Number of the beast

Big funeral in Leek today. Apparently the manager of a local football club. The side streets were packed around the Church. A shopper speculated that it was the biggest funeral in Leek with the possible exception of Steve Povey's a couple of years ago. I remember the coffin on the back of a horse and cart with a scout band playing the European theme " Ode to Joy". Ironic considering Steve was a UKIP member.

Told a bloke about the research I did in the William Salt Library on the emigrant to the States Isaac ball and the Oregon Trail. I have a notion of writing a quartet of accounts of emigrants in the 19th century from the Staffordshire Moorlands. I have Isaac bound for the States. I found a bloke transported to NSW in 1839 for stealing bacon from Upper Tean, two brothers who fought in the Second Sikh Wars 1848-9 and a judge born in Leek who was involved in the Ballarat Gold Fields. Should be interesting.

Man has a big rant about paying for plastic bags, we don't do it and I suspect he us getting us confused with Wales about 40 miles away.

Very wizened man possibly from the hills gets a bill for 6.66. I smell sulphur. I have always suspected the beast lives in Onecote