A Man on a mission - Michael Winner’s Fat Pig Diet
I had a funny-five-minute-moment today. Whilst watching daytime TV I managed to come across a show called ‘Loose Women’, which is quite a good chatshow, not that I’m an avid fan I hasten to add. Anyway Michael Winner (currently famous for selling car insurance but formally the director of some of the Deathwish films) was plugging his new book Fat Pig Diet. This is the second time I’ve heard about it so i thought I’ll try and track down a copy.
It started at Borders who knew there was four instock somewhere but not sure where. So I was out of luck there. Seeing as I wasn’t in the mood to be beaten so easily I tried my local Asda, which has quite a good selection of bestsellers and high profile books. No sign . Nor was there any sign of a copy in my not so local but very very large Tesco though I did manage to find a very nice coat. Traveling back 7 miles the other way I made a trip into not quite local but not that far away WHSmith who amazingly had a copy in the New shelves.
I know what you’re thinking why didn’t I just give up and order on Amazon (who as an aside have opened their Prime service in the UK allowing you to free one day delivery all year on any item for just £49)? Well it’s nice sometimes to be able to get a bit of instant gratification even if it’s not so instant1
I was quite prepared to go into my not local at all Waterstones and Borders and incur the ludicrous parking charges to get it. It wasn’t the book itself it was the principle of finding a copy of the damned thing.
