A contraflow am I? Au contraire. What's more, I'm not alone.
Remember Harvey Goldsmith trying to build that set for Pavaotti (another forward thinking Italian) in Hyde Park? Couldn't get the steel here, nobody was interested. Had to go to Switzerland. Switzerland! So much for Orson and the cuckoo clock.
Never mind steel - have you ever tried to buy a piece of elastic? No, not 500 metres on a roll, but just a piece to support your knickers? Yes, of course you could in Ballydehob or Bridgwater because they would have a corsetiere or a draper's shop. Try it in the West End of Londonium and you will grow a beard looking, to say nothing of the whites-of-eye behind the counter.
Tried to buy a packet of Persil the other day in Sainsburys - there's a new one opened close to us, looks like a giant Terminal 4 sized Happy Eater, complete with 'runway'. They don't make packets of Persil any more. The smallest I could find was (to stay on the carousel a moment longer) the size of a small suitcase, the bunny-dip being required to lift it without putting myself into traction. Lucky the car has a tail-lift and the house dates from 1902, or I'd have had to decant the powder into the kitchen.
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