Yesterday I went to Croydon Market. I bought 8 huge, lovely navel oranges for £1; 12 bananas for £1 (neither too green nor too black); 3 large avocados to ripen, £1; a large bowl of tomatoes (12, red and firm) £1; a bowl of 9 pears (granted, not pretty enough for supermarket shelves, but, from experience know that they will not taste any worse for that) £1; 1 pound of good-sized, white, closed button mushrooms £1. I could have also bought 3 Savoy cabbages for £1, but am old and can't carry too much and anyway how long does it take for 2 people to eat 3 cabbages?
Taking into account the huge bargaining power of the supermarkets for wholesale prices it is hard to imagine how these small traders can manage to sell their produce so very much more cheaply. Avocados, for example, are usually 65 pence each, or more in the shops.
Apart from that, it is so much more fun to go to market and have a bit of banter with the traders.
This blog is a plea for common sense in public policy. Our leaders don't seem to have any. They just make daft rules for us to follow. We need to assert our right to use our own good sense instead of ticking boxes which can only say 'yes' or 'no'.
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