so wandering round on my last day, i remember how rubbish shopping can be. lots of traping around not-quite-finding-anything, and wishing you’d actually just bought that first thing you saw, ‘cos it was quite good actually and sod the stupid price. to apply another conversation randomly had over sónar: if you can’t go back, the optimum point at which to commit to hiring a candidate, or in this case committing to a purchase, is 1/e, ie about a third into your shopping trip.
oh, and the really worrying thing was that out of the whole expedition the most exciting find was a wallpaper catalogue… really must be getting old.