MONDAY is a Mummy and Erin day in the Hitchings household.
We often like to head out somewhere in the morning, mainly to keep the little monkey occupied and prevent me from getting cabin fever!
Today’s choice was a quick trip to Hucknall High Street, the primary target being the brand new Costa, which has just opened its doors.
Costa? I hear you say.
In Hucknall?
It makes our very proud North Notts town a veritable metropolis!
Oddly it really did feel different going into Hucknall knowing there would be something so cosmopolitan at the end of my wander. When I say Cosmopolitan, I realise anyone who lives in a city centre, or London, will think I sound positively prehistoric. But something like this does make a huge difference to the experience of a parochial high street.
The manager of the Card Factory store next door must be ecstatic for the amount of footfall Costa’s arrival is going to cause, and I can imagine Peacocks is expecting a distinct rise in profits for its position in the runway to Double Caff Skinny Latte Shaken not Stirred heaven.
Interestingly I don’t like coffee. But I would happily sit with a hot chocolate, a blueberry muffin and a flapjack (for Erin, I’m not that greedy) watch the world go by and await the next retail giant to shift its game-changing bottom into the empty unit that formerly housed Bon Marche.
It’s going to happen, I can just feel it. I will put my money on Dorothy Perkins to be the next arrival - I have no basis in fact, just wishful thinking!
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