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SGB Sports
Arkwright
The Independent
Voice
I
’m putting on my rose tinted
. . . that
oooing and aaahing doesn’t pay my the third was on its own in a box
glasses, forgetting the financial
someone, a
wages. You have to use it or lose it measuring 80cm x 28cm x 35cm!!
woes of the world, challenging so I think Hamish-Hamish needs a That’s 78,400 cubic centimetres for
trading conditions and grey skies to
bit bitter at
cricket bag and look, if you take the one pair of dance pants, at that rate
head off for the French Alps. one with wheels he’ll even fit inside the packer can claim a fair
Pretending all is right with the world
the
as well as all his kit. Just don’t zip it proportion of the destruction of the
shouldn’t be too hard once I’m lying up beyond his neck or you might planet as well as wasting their
back on the hotel’s sundeck with a
centralising of
forget he’s in there”. Father was employer’s money!
glass of glüwein looking up at speechless so just handed over his
Mount Blanc. Sadly, actually being
the Reebok
credit card while Hamish-Hamish, As sales of goggles are always
able to ski may be a little more aided and abetted by Saturday Boy, buoyant (as are armbands we
testing. It’s some years since I’ve
and adidas
got into the cricket bag and then hope!) I imagined our local pool
been on the piste, in the skiing clearly thought it a great laugh to must be well attended but having
sense, and despite raiding shop
warehouses,
be wheeled out of the shop with been swimming regularly over the
stock and lining my suitcase with a only his head sticking out of the last month, in an effort to counter
variety of knee, ankle and back
has decided
bag. my lack of fitness for the ski trip,
supports I fear my joints may not I’ve been surprised at how under-
allow me to reach my old Ski
to go on a
Now who’s the little joker working used the facility is; if there’s more
Sunday standards. Let’s just hope I in the warehouse at the hybrid than six of us swimming at the
get over my vertigo problem
splurge . . .
Reedidas, or should it be adibok? In same time I now consider it
otherwise I won’t even be able to these times of cutbacks for all, crowded. While this makes for a
get on the ski lift. But before I head across every overhead, I can only very pleasurable and relaxing swim
for the airport (and there’s another conclude that someone, a bit bitter it cannot make for commercial
problem because I have a fear of reflect all the enthusiasm his dad at the centralising of the Reebok success, particularly as most of my
flying) there’s just time for me to tell was displaying. Over the next and adidas warehouses, has decided fellow swimmers are likely to qualify
you about this month’s irritations twenty minutes I was glad to impart to go on a splurge of packaging and for the newly introduced over-60s
and initiatives. good humoured advice when see how wasteful he or she can be. free swimming, but at least in this
asked, I felt sure this father could Yesterday I got a delivery split, case us tax payers are subsidising
First up has to be a father and son not leave empty handed, he was unnecessarily, between two boxes something we can actually use
who bounded into the shop like a hyping the kid up so much and I with plenty of room to spare in both rather than being robbed to pay for
couple of spaniels on speed. was right; well only just. As he paid but as each box had a delivery note I bankers’ pensions.
“Hamish, Hamish, do look, a proper for an abdo guard and half price assumed it was caused by a
sports shop. Absolutely super! The pair of junior cricket gloves, so not computer on auto pilot. Today two Must be away now to finish my
type of sports shop grandpapa used much profit there, he said, “I can’t more boxes arrived, this time with packing. If I overcome the vertigo
to take me to when I was your age. understand why there aren’t more only one delivery note for a total problem and stiff joints I could be
Look they’ve got everything”. proper sports shops today, the one consignment of just three garments, reporting on partaking in
Hamish-Hamish (we came to the near us closed down”. Saturday all the same product and size so paragliding and other adrenalin-
conclusion it was double barrelled Boy stopped tidying the trainer why were they split? Two were in fuelled antics – hold a page for me
his father said it so much) was display and vaulted across the shop, the smaller box which could easily Ed in next month’s Outdoor section
probably about six and happy to “We’re not a museum mate, have accommodated more but no just in case…
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