Had to go shopping today - which meant going by train, as it happens. The shops in Epsom are pretty much useless these days.
Just to re-assure you lot that I wasn’t blundering around London at random or slipping a sneaky bashing trip in, here’s my phone trace for the day ( image at bottom of post )!
Plus, surprisingly, I was able to get everything I aimed to get in the one shop; I had expected that I might need to visit two, three, even four different shops to clear my list. Which is another reason for using Thornton Heath – there’s several other large shops within a couple of miles. Contrast that to my normal regular Tesco, which is a 10 – 15 minute walk from a station between Epsom and Wimbledon but with no other shops nearby.
What I was after today was mainly meats and frozens plus a few snacks for the cupboard to keep the family going during the day and two packets of cereal.
There were, however, still a lot of empty shelves, just not for products on my list today. These were mainly the usual suspects; toilet roll and related products, milk, cheese, bread, potatoes. There was stock of most other items, although a bit thin in places.
Destination: Tesco store at Thornton Heath ( nearest big one which is next door to a station ).
Route out: Epsom to Clapham Junction, change there for Thornton Heath. That’s the straight line showing from Epsom to near Putney / Fulham and then diagonally down right to the big circle on the end.
Route back: Thornton Heath to Tulse Hill ( there’s a cross-platform connection there; no footbridge needed – useful when carrying loaded shopping bags ). Tulse Hill is the big circle near Brixton. From Tulse Hill to Sutton via Wimbledon; the reason I didn’t get off at Wimbledon was the connection just missed and I could get home just as quickly by carrying on to Sutton and getting a train from there to Epsom. At both Wimbledon and Sutton there’s a footbridge involved so it made no difference in that respect either.