How do you do your weekly shopping then? 4 people in a house can total
20
bags - wouldnt like to carry them 5 miles home. Wouldn't like to carry
them on the bus either!

Well, Tuesday I cycled into the nearest town with a trailer and brought
back
about 30kg of goods. We also use the local shops for fresh produce - we
have a
good local butcher and greengrocer, and we make a lot of use of internet
shopping, using two main suppliers who have proved to be very reliable.
I also ride up to an organic farm about two miles north of here that has a
farm
shop and another farm supplies eggs etc. I can get the latter within
walking
distance but its a pleasant trip;-)

Fair enough. Internet shopping is becoming a much better way to shop anyway
these days, and I'm sure the cycle ride with the trailer does you good. A
helluva lot more good than lardy-arsed me in my car! Actually, the other
day in London, on Leadenhall Street, I saw a pedal-operated vehicle whereby
the operator laid back a bit (making the pedalling easier), and had plenty
of storage in the back. It had DHL plastered all over it. What an
excellent idea, I thought. Around town that is most definitely quicker than
any car. If I could get from Slough (where the courier company I work for
is based) into the centre of London in around an hour and a half I
definitely wouldn't bother using a car/van for work, but I suspect it would
take much nearer 2-2.5 hours. And most of the time I can easily get in or
out in an hour (thanks to the very handy route through Lambeth/Blackfriars
instead of using the horribly congested Victoria Embankment).

Peter