Standard list of staples. Bread, milk, butter, cheese etc. interesting the items are grouped into categories. Biscuits appear twice.
Ruled paper has rounded corners on the left hand side and slight tear marks on the right, suggesting it has been torn from a note book.
Morrisons, Reading, 27th November 2022
This list was very kindly donated by Matt from Dudley.
Firstly, pink pen and beautiful cursive script is not a common occurrence in the world of shopping lists. A colourful and welcome addition.
Secondly, the reader of the post on tittles will notice the circle above the first letter i. Circles are replaced by dots further down.
On apostrophes, there is ‘Choc’s’ and ‘Dogs Food’.
Other items include some staples including crisps, gravy, biscuits, cheese and jam. What is slightly unexpected are the ‘bum wipes’ and two types of shampoo.
What a great list. Thank you Matt!
10th September, Aldi, Dudley
Predominately non food items. Of the 3 items which are edible, it is unusual to see gum on a shopping list.
After sun speaks to warm weather or a holiday.
Jammy Dodgers are sandwiched biscuits with a sugary red jammy goo exposed in a heart shape.
A5, spiral bound, in pencil.
Sainsbury’s, Reading, 5th July 2022
Predominately non food items. Of the 3 items which are edible, it is unusual to see gum on a shopping list.
After sun speaks to warm weather or a holiday.
A5, spiral bound, in pencil.
Sainsbury’s, Reading, 5th July 2022
Nice writing. Very clear. Top up shopping list on torn quarter of A4 paper.
What are roosters?
Sainsbury’s, Reading 20th July 2022
Some people, instead of using a simple dot above the Latin letters i and j, use full blown circles. The owner of this list was one of those people.
Did you know, this tiny, little superscript dot has a name? It is called a tittle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle
The tittle on milk is nearly a heart. The tittles on high juice are just the start of circles. The tittles on Pinot Grigio are more fully formed. The tittle on veggie burgers is an ambitious galaxy of a swirl.
Morrisons Bridport, U.K.
16th July 2022
Written on a torn off rectangle from an insurance company letter, there is some small print on the reverse.
I am not sure what the horizontal line represents here. It is not likely to be different shops or days.
Morrisons, Bridport, 23th July 2022
A4 Lined, spiral bound, folded. Black biro.
A short list of items, maybe somebody planning a barbecue for Saturday. They need fire lighters and ‘lighter long. Maybe this is long matches or an actual long lighter.
Speculating, they needs rolls for sausages and burgers and maybe a salad to go with it.
Cake for afterwards.
Sainsbury’s, Reading, 9th July 2022
3 Items. Balsamic glaze for a salad. Beetroot and cold coffee.
All nicely written on purpose build shopping list note paper. Don’t see this very often.
Morrisons, Bridport, 16th July 2022
This could be described as a mixed list.
It looks like it is written on a piece of water colour paper or heavily textured writing paper, itself unusual in the genre.
The items here are not natural bed fellows. Stock, masking tape, compost bags and breadsticks are followed spread, jam and oats.
Further down the list are hairbands and chips, then a horizontal line indicates the point where I can no longer decipher what is written.
The natural thing to do is to place these words into an automatic poem generator.
This is the result:
Where are the misty hair clips?
Travel roughly like warm oats.
All hair clips desire old, big compost bags breadsticks and spread.
Sunny, rainy hair clips calmly pull some cold, cold masking tape.
Endurance, endurance, and courage.
Hmm…
This poem was generated by:
https://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm
Sainsbury’s, Calcot, Reading, 9th July 2022
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