Boots on Silly Saturday…

The biggest shop on our High Street and the messiest. We Guernsey donkeys are not so stupid that we need a barricade to stop us going up the stairs. A rope across and a no entry sign would do.

The pic in extras is even sillier because it more or less blocks access to their most expensive products, the posh perfumes and they don’t even have an excuse for leaving stuff lying around. Yes the lift is out of order but an out of order sign is all that is needed.

Now that Superdrug has opened just a few yards up the road I will certainly be giving Boots the cold shoulder. So guess what my saying of the day is…

The phrase "giving someone the cold shoulder" means to treat someone in an unfriendly or disrespectful way, often by ignoring them or snubbing them. The phrase is thought to have originated in the early 1800s, possibly from the practice of serving a cold shoulder of meat to an unwanted house guest as a signal to leave. However, some linguistic sources suggest the phrase might have been used in Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, "The Antiquary," in a different context, referring to the act of turning one's back on someone as a display of disapproval.