Stoke on Trent

We should have avoided Stoke on Trent.  But only because it’s another place near the canal!  However Jan (correctly) believes we can save some money if she makes her own yogurt.  To do this she needs a yogurt maker, hence the trip to Stoke on Trent.

The main shopping mall in Stoke on Trent is “The Potteries”.  I think we walked all of it!  No yogurt maker.  Jan was also looking for a haberdasher because she wanted a cord for her new slacks.  When she purchased then she though they came with a cord only to subsequently discovered the existing cords were false.  As a consequence her slacks were being subjected to gravity. She was starting to despair when we found the basement floor of the “Potteries” full of small specialist stalls.  She is now pleased whilst I’m disappointed!

We eventually found an Easi Yo yogurt maker in a Julian Graves shop.  Jan was especially delighted as it was reduced in price and pink!  The Easi Yo she left behind in Oz was white.  The shop also had the sachets of yogurt powder so Jan purchased six sachets (different flavours).  This will last us six weeks.  However Jan has a method that doubles the capacity of the sachet which she will start using once we are more settled.  I’ve now looked at the Julian Graves website and identified all their shop locations close to canals and entered them into the gps.