Upmarket snack bars are a heck of a good start
Many years ago, before satnav, I used to navigate, while my partner drove, with the excellent Reader’s Digest road atlas open on my lap (how I miss it). I’m a skilled, ex-military-trained navigator. One famous day, after he hadn’t listened to my instructions, we ended up lost. He threw the atlas back into my lap saying, ‘Get us out of this mess.’ Reader, I did.
You’d think with satnav the arguments would have stopped, but they have not. Now it’s a case of whichever satnav I choose isn’t quite right: the writing isn’t big enough, the instructions not clear enough. Thus it was that we were driving back from York arguing about the relative merits of Apple v Google v the car’s satnav when I decided to stop talking. We got to a service station. ‘Do you want anything?’ he asked. ‘No,’ I said, my voice thick with sulk. But, actually, I wanted a Snickers and I thought about it all the way home.
Continue reading… Upmarket snack bars are a heck of a good startMany years ago, before satnav, I used to navigate, while my partner drove, with the excellent Reader’s Digest road atlas open on my lap (how I miss it). I’m a skilled, ex-military-trained navigator. One famous day, after he hadn’t listened to my instructions, we ended up lost. He threw the atlas back into my lap saying, ‘Get us out of this mess.’ Reader, I did.You’d think with satnav the arguments would have stopped, but they have not. Now it’s a case of whichever satnav I choose isn’t quite right: the writing isn’t big enough, the instructions not clear enough. Thus it was that we were driving back from York arguing about the relative merits of Apple v Google v the car’s satnav when I decided to stop talking. We got to a service station. ‘Do you want anything?’ he asked. ‘No,’ I said, my voice thick with sulk. But, actually, I wanted a Snickers and I thought about it all the way home. Continue reading… Food, Life and style, Chocolate
