Although delayed slightly, normal service (and life) resumes

The essential post-holiday trip to the supermarket to pick up groceries. Even on returning home, after over £100 spent, piling everything purchased up on the kitchen table I survey the produce and think ...

"What meals can I actually make with any of this?"

Following the trip to Tesco and putting said hopeless groceries away I took Serg for a very necessary valet & clean. It was desperate after our Cornish adventure; the paintwork was covered in ugly and highly corrosive seagull shit and the inside appeared to contain much of the sand from Porth beach.

For a longtime I pondered if Stone Soaps was in fact a legitimate business only open to facilitate money laundering for the mafia?!? Rather unlikely I'll admit, but it was always appeared very well-staffed but had minimal customers. Arriving with a car to be cleaned it always seemed that like a major inconvenience and the cleaning was a significant chore for them.  

Now I think it would be entirely fair to suggest that it is one of the greatest business successes in Stone, dropping Serg off for his valet they had such a back-log of vehicles waiting to be cleaned that I was told the wait would be around two hours. It's all done by hand; I make no bones that it's hard physical demanding unpleasant work (cold & wet) We rarely have the kind of weather in the Uk that makes splashing about in cold water fun. Consequently this is the major reason I sub-contract this job out to an outside agency, and by the looks of it I'm not the only one? 

They're more attentive and perform a significantly better job than yours truly (lazy man) even if they did charge me the 4x4 / minivan price today. It was pretty dirty and the sand removal would be frustrating work I'm sure, consequently I didn't really make a fuss and paid up. 

From the moment it opens to the moment they close the gates it appears to have a constant flow of clientele. In many ways their busyness astounds me, in a similar way I am astounded by the busyness of Costa at 11am on a Monday morning.

I appreciate we have entered the second week of the Easter holidays for many Staffordshire children, but their current clientele stretches right across the age demographic from toddlers accompanying their mothers to OAP's apparently almost on their last legs. But the greatest percentage are those of working age; they can't all be unemployed, on days-off or on holiday?