☯ goody special 2010 to you all!

muslie

✐✎ thank you for stopping by

☃ festive shopper

coat (like marias in cori)

wolly hat

♨ stir fry tonight

brocolli

kc yogs - squezzy as well

ʚ choc lover

sachet choc

green & black

& cocoa

6oz p choc

❒ bangers

20 x sausage (beef)

⑊ italic

cust tats

black biro's

⑂⑂ notes

wholegrain mustard

pouring honey

sensation crisps

♨ dog owner or cannibal

bones

lettace

〰.. old soak

beer x100

sp onions

。° title and capitals

bannana's

wheetabix

≤ big writer

4 ban

lasgane

set + clear honey (rouses)

☙ plant hunter

✍ birthday planner

cream clearner

tar tar sauce

mirco chips

✉ chelmsford recycler

tomfish

crumble danny

deserts

≓ aisle spacer

honey & must dressing

golf balls x2

interdental brush

《 plurals man

cherios

sarney meat

¿? sweet tooth

m+s cake?

dish?

fish?

☍ scribbler

spuds

jelly

dillweed

¯‑⁃ tesco

cream - squrty

milk - oorganic

petol

ɛ: number recycler

2 parsnips

3 carrots

■ curt capital

⎛( bracketer )⎞

bis ( " )

chix

θ have got beef out

pot

veg

gel derek

syrem for my hair

❖ abbreviator

cous

mush

?oregano?

spag

⋄∙⋅colour coder

1 pt green milk

mush

apples fruit

> baby spinich

chillis

corriander

mongtout

∗ gina's lists

x.v. olive oil

string

ribbons

fabric

≡ underliner

tom's

✔ tick tick

ecover jif

w up liq

strimmer tape

⠋woman in a hurry

foot spray

cans coke

powerade

≈ dog lover

pouch - 6

belongs to Mrs J Golding

✎✐ secret colourer

pinapple chunks in nat juice

cake

tom puree

tulips and daffodils 

∴ number lover

red serviettes

1 advocado

3 juices for £2.25 (all orange)

a quote from Steve Martin 

☄ where it all began

 

Written in blue and purple fountain pen and titled 

'Weekend 22 + 23rd Aug; '53, George and Joan down for weekend 

(M,D + Mg, V at Butlins, Clacton)
Not only does it list everything they bought for their eating pleasures, it also chronicles the weekend events along with prices for train fares and treats ~
'8/- knickerbocker glories at Crescent'.


It's a beautiful snapshot of the times and a little bit of local history ~

'Sunday. NeverNeverland (walk along the front to Chalkwell in the morning)'.
The total cost *38/10* split down the middle ~
'we paid 19/2, George & Joan paid 19/8'..

And so it started. 
.... my collection and compulsion to keep these discarded pieces of someone's life. 
Little clues are left on an anonymous list ~ the handwriting, type of paper, things to buy, methodically scribbled out as they walked around the aisles, folded or scrunched, spelling mistakes, junk food, items underlined, extra instructions.

I make up images in my head of the person that wrote the list ~ older lady, widowed, careful about her diet, likes to keep herself youthful.

What sort of paper are you?

Pretty floral purpose made from a pad, with the heading 'shopping'.

A square of card cut from a teabag box.

An old birthday card or unused postcard.

Recycled envelopes or office a4 paper.

Torn.

Cut.

Do you write the list in a virtual tour of the aisles?

Fresh on one side ~ the rest on the other?

Long hand or block caps?

Most misspelled words are yoghurt and broccoli.

My boxful of paper lists has grown and I really should curb my habit. But it's not easy when I see that little piece of paper fluttering in the breeze at the outside trolley park of the supermarket ....