I was walking down Kingsway this morning and noticed that the Boots near the top of the road had been completely refurbished. It’s dragged itself out of the 80’s and firmly into the 90’s, only about 10 years too late. I’m sure that there have already been others and that more will follow suit. I think I will miss the grubby grey floors, the tile ceilings and the grungy metal racks. At least now they won’t get mistaken for a pound store anymore.
Then further down the road the Wimpy burger bar had closed down. More passing of an era. Although I didn’t grow up here in the UK there was one or two Wimpy’s in NZ before Maccers took over. They are like Tuataras, living fossils, a relic of a bygone age and it’s sad to see them forced into extinction by foreign species, even if the food is crap.
