Author Nancy Jardine goes shopping - Roman style
I'm delighted to welcome back fellow Wild Rose Press and Crooked Cat author, Nancy Jardine . Today, Nancy chats about shopping. In ancient Britain! Curious? Yes, I thought so. Let's find out... Who loves shopping? Personally, I hate shopping, but I’ve recently had to indulge in a bit of hypothetical buying of goods. No, I’m not talking of internet shopping – though the internet has played a small part since it’s helped in my researches. My current work in progress (which seems to be a long haul since I started it last September) is a historical novel, a sequel to – The Beltane Choice - my Celtic/ Britain adventure. It follows on from the period AD 71 and journeys through to AD 84. There’s clearly no major time difference involved in my new work, but what is very different is that I’m focusing equally as much on the Roman perspective as on the Celtic one. So, back to shopping. Today I shopped in Asda, only one of my possible supermarket choices. Maybe not ...