Tag: shopping

  • Home deliveries

    Cherry Rogers remembers a time when deliveries to your door were common place. For our grandparents and parents, ordering your shopping and having it delivered was quite normal.  The internet was non-existent but almost everything could be delivered to the door. I can remember the knife grinder coming round.  He came once a year on…

  • Dad and his shopping habits

    An insight of the shopping habits of Cherry Rogers and her late father. Shopping when I was growing up was quite a social activity.  You went shopping with your list, to the market or to a shop, and sat down while the shopkeeper assembled your order.  Sometimes there was a discussion about your purchase with…