Here we are on the forecourt of the Tesco petrol station at about 3:40 this afternoon. The store closes at 4:00 pm, (British Sunday trading laws), and it is getting busy at the petrol station.

Sunday used to be such a quiet day before the Sunday Trading laws allowed 10-4 Sunday trading. I remember coming down to use the large Tesco carpark to practise roller blading on a Sunday afternoon, and there would be nobody around. Try it now in this 450th year of the Abingdon Charter and most likely I’d end up as a supermarket-trolley sandwhich….