Wouldn't get me back to the UK.....

To date the tesco range of clothes has never been on line any time I have looked.

Please dont rant....its not good for you

I didnt mean that you were on the dole, paropeople and retired are examples of people who have have the time to go to the market or whatever.

Those with a pension or maybe savings can, however, the majority cannot and will never be able to and so yes some of them might envy your life style choice but will not be able to do anything about it.

If tesco sell it then it's of poor quality & not worth looking at anyway. Try a decent clothing store such as bbclothing.co.uk

I do not know anyone who buys clothes in Tescos.

There are lots of good online stores to look at and buy clothes from and who deliver to Spain

I can walk to Mercadona, two Indian and countless Chinese take-aways, and they all deliver too. Having been on my own for ten days, I’m pleased that my wife is returning from the UK tomorrow and she has bought me some new underpants.

Assuming you´ve lost the instructions to the washing machine and forgotten about hand washing, you could have raided her nicker drawer and worn hers

Well, my everyday clothing is subject to great abuse, and tesco's were always cheap, so easily replaceable. Getting paint on a pair of jeans that cost a fiver is far less important than a good quality expensive pair.

I’ve pretended to lose the instructions for the washing machine but I wash my hands regularly after eating curry. Her knickers don’t fit me, I’m about three times her size.

Apart from that black, silky pair that stretches, with the nice smell.

There's always the rumage stall at the market . Designer labels usually 2 for 5 euros and often brand new and a million stalls for underwear. really trendy good quality, or plain boring usually 3 pairs for five euros so no need to go naked.

or the bisto (or other similar 'helpers')

some ingredients that your wife - or I - might use regularly in the UK aren't as readily available here

I even had someone bring several HUGE tubs of bisto granules over

we can now get most - including bisto - where I live



but for several years we couldn't get that sort of thing & it took me a while to adapt my cooking to what I could get

and a while for our tastebuds to adapt

cottage pie without an oxo cube took a bit of doing - but I got there in the end

then they opened an Iceland in my town & all was available at a reasonable price & I and every English mum I know went mad buying all those things we missed


& yes, I do have Bisto in the cupboard - I looked at it yesterday & it's a solid lump in the tub through lack of use

I think most supermarkets deliver in the UK now. If one of them comes up with a service that gives them an edge then the rest follow.

Jim

You see where I live there are none of these shops; even the nearest Mercadona is nearly an hour's drive away. Thereare a few local small shops that sell things like Bisto, but that's about it.

Maybe where I live I don't have the choice that others do. Fatty pork, chicken and rabbit in the meat line, sugary bread or airy baguette and tatty veg's.

I think that must be it - location

maybe everything goes bad just there aren't enough people to buy it


we have all the supermarkets nearby & also small independent shops for amazing bread & tasty fruit & veg

the fruit & veg often does look tatty admittedly - but usually tastes good


and the fat is what gives the meat the flavour - so you don't need the bisto

lynnxa

Location: on the right side of the mountain



I'm obviously on the WRONG side of the mountain!