Here's to TJ Hughes ...nine haiku 20.08.2011.

So here's to TJHughes......nine Haiku in honour of TJ Hughes, which went into administration and did not quite make its 100th birthday, after decades of looking after its customers.


No more shoe bargains,

amazing handbags, Triumph

bras or five tog quilts.



No more basement queens

faffing about to find you

the flight case you want.



No more pyramids

of Werther's originals

or shopping trolleys.



No more Ferrero

Rocher or pound Toblerone

bars at the checkout.



No more queues at the

bedding counter to pay for

thermal vests, duvets.



No more sales counter

happy girls refunding, no

esalator hope.



No more washed-out meat

and two-veg posters that

you noticed looked rude.



No more carpetted

restaurant, extra water

jug, joke at the till.



No more sitting on

the low wall, taking the weight

off, eating pasties.



No more black cabs to

take you to Anfield and

Mam to Scotty Road.