In-room comforts are Spartan: a fridge (empty), a hot pot with packets of bad instant coffee, and some leaky paper cups.
At K's shop, the tables were scattered with notepads and packets of tea and an insane number of pots—some triangular, some heavy-bellied, some iron, some clay.
For every 10 purchases of pot — supposedly for medical uses — you get one free packet.
Much of this business is structured like the Internet, with many small nodes producing "packets" of a few pounds of high grade pot.
Jenkins has been forced to defend the pay packets of the investment bankers after raising the bonus pot by 10% during 2013, when profits fell by 32% and shareholders were asked to back a £5.8bn cash-call.
With a bit of space in pots or beds, and a few packets of seed – lettuce, radish, rocket and peas, say – for the price of a couple of bagged supermarket salads, you have seeds enough for the whole season.
Fire blazing, wood collected and stacked, pot of tea on the stove and several packets of Hob-Nobs, not to mention a meat pie and beer for dinner".
There's a small, well-chosen cheese section, a mini-meat section, fruit and veg in baskets, coffee from the Monmouth Coffee Shop, apple juice from Oakwood Farm, Steenbergs spices and shelf after shelf of packets, pots and packages, all tip-top organic - "2,000 altogether," says Craig, "more than Tesco or Sainsbury's.
