Why do whole families go shopping together? Does it take every member of a family to choose the week's groceries? It's not as if shopping is a recommended family pursuit - I mean, life may be a beach, but Asda is not. And, they all seem to be sightless - just walking straight at you, causing you to have to duck and dive around them. When two such familes know each other, they stop right beside the very products you are trying to reach, chatting, their trollies akimbo, forcing you to swerve and reach around them, and then - oh, why? - apologise. I found myself saying "sorry" to two familes who were taking up the entire space beside the fish food chiller cabinet, and who looked at me as if I was deranged when I attempted, too politely probably, to reach around them for a packet of prawns. "Sorry," I caught myself saying, as one of their trollies banged into my hip.

My Big Bad Handsome Man is still sulking, it seems.