Today's pre-shop Mr T story involved an exchange he had with an Irish electrician called Paul, who had come to his flat to install some new wiring. Determined to do it on the cheap, the suggestion by the contractor was not to pull through the cabling, but just install additional (unattractive) trunking on the ceiling and walls.

Well Mr T was having none of this and so made his feelings known to electrician Paul, whom it transpired (and as graphically described by Mr T), could have been a decent match up against Tyson Fury (or indeed Mike Tyson...or both at once). Suffice to say, Mr T got his way, and it's true that there is no trunking anywhere to be seen in his flat.

With this in mind, I made doubly sure today that I got exactly what Mr T asked for on his list from his local Lidl downstairs...