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Thursday, 22 October 2026

Quality Retail

What does B&M stand for?

Wonderful goods at rock bottom prices

You can tell a real Scouser

By what they call the Home and Bargain


Are yous going down the Asda?

They’re gonna do the yellow stickers

Last week me and Jonny bagged up

Sirlion steaks for 55p


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The middle of Lidl is overstated

It’s just a load of shoes and hand tools

Seasonal diversions

All you need for back to skool


The knock off crisps are good these days

They’ve really nailed the cheese n onion

Professor Peppy’s an ok replacement

Undeniably the aftertaste's a bit like chicken


But it’s a quarter of the price, man

Your palate will get used to it

You can’t refuse that kind of deal

Your wallet always thanks you for it


Have you ever seen anyone

Buying anything from American Golf?

If it’s really a soft power front

It’s a pretty pathetic efffort


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But for expertise and spices

And the biggest khoub in Liverpool

A beguiling plethora of sauces

Mattas is the king of Bold Street


I head to the Oxfam shop

To pick up something to read

For scran with extra pickles

It’s ok to dine alone in Backchich


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You know you get a better deal if you shop around

The delivery van has been to Heroin Foods

For massive pasta packs and Arabian sweets

The Bootle bus goes right past Farmfoods


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Friday, 16 October 2026

The Weeks Strewn Careless

O what have I

what have I done


it has all come

around and so


fast tho days are

slow and drag


dullard attacked

sick to the last


How wrong was I

now all is run


and wan the sun

rays sliding low


and the weeks thrown

strewn careless


mudded and cracked

kicked to long grass


And here I am

somewhere inbetween


a virus, a cure,

a symptom, really


another simpleton

greying hoping


that the distant sunset

is controllable yet


That I may yet learn

what I may yet be


absurd though it seems

deranged or defanged


when shadows are long

purple orange glows


and catches your eyes

then there is no more light.