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Looking for a tin of oil primer, I ventured into Homebase. Normally I steer clear of DIY sheds but I couldn't be bothered to drive another three miles to our localish decorator's merchants for a tin of bog-standard paint.
On entering the paint section, was confronted by a whole shelf of paint purporting to be anti-damp, anti-mould, stabilising, 'bad surface', stain blocking, and every other permutation of dubious proposition. But no primer.
All the tins that I could see of whatever make were combined Primer and Undercoat.
Now, I have little faith in paint that claims to be all things to all men, so I went round again peering myopically at every tin, and eventually on a top shelf found a tin of Dulux Trade that was just ... primer.
Behind it the serried ranks of Dulux Trade Primer/Undercoat.
And so, another stone in the wall of the past is demolished by the lazys, who can't be bothered with two coats and are happy to kid themselves that one will do. 'Alas, poor primer, I knew ye well'.
Fortunately I have little need of primer, and with care this tin will see me out. Also, I still have an unopened tin of lead primer which I am saving for... well, I dunno really, the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse?
The small silver lining was at the till, where the end-of-era tin came up at £4 the quart, the whizzy new combination tins being £22.
Ivor ...harrumph
On entering the paint section, was confronted by a whole shelf of paint purporting to be anti-damp, anti-mould, stabilising, 'bad surface', stain blocking, and every other permutation of dubious proposition. But no primer.
All the tins that I could see of whatever make were combined Primer and Undercoat.
Now, I have little faith in paint that claims to be all things to all men, so I went round again peering myopically at every tin, and eventually on a top shelf found a tin of Dulux Trade that was just ... primer.
Behind it the serried ranks of Dulux Trade Primer/Undercoat.
And so, another stone in the wall of the past is demolished by the lazys, who can't be bothered with two coats and are happy to kid themselves that one will do. 'Alas, poor primer, I knew ye well'.
Fortunately I have little need of primer, and with care this tin will see me out. Also, I still have an unopened tin of lead primer which I am saving for... well, I dunno really, the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse?
The small silver lining was at the till, where the end-of-era tin came up at £4 the quart, the whizzy new combination tins being £22.
Ivor ...harrumph