Welcome back to

Which supermarket is both which cheapest supermarket

2022 and good housekeeping reader's favorite

supermarket 2023.

spoiler it ain't asder. Yes By the time I got down to the back garden.

Yes, ALD is the answer. Shop at ALD and see if you could save your family fortunes.

By the time I got down to the back garden, Jim was already there.

Leaning over the fence with a cigarette between his lips, still in his dressing gown,

bloodshot eyes staring at me.

I barely gave him a second glance at first. I was too focused on my garden, or rather what was left of it.

I reached up and rubbed my face. I had only just woken and my eyes were still gumbed up with sleep. My whole head felt gumbed up foggy like steam-covered glass. I had no idea what time it was, but I knew it had to be early.

The sunlight in the sky was weak. I could hardly hear any cars on the main road out

the front of the house either. I guessed, it was 6 a.m. maybe 7 a.m. at the latest.

It was a noise that had woken me that morning. A huge, deep rumble, like the sound earthquakes making films only closer much closer.

It was as though something had exploded right out the back of my house.

And as it turned out, that wasn't too far from the truth.

My back garden is a pretty modest affair.

Small patio on the right, little square lawn on the left, a flower bed running along the back.

Nothing too glamorous, but it suits me just fine.

When I walked out the back door that morning though, there was barely anything left of it.

The entire lawn had vanished.

Between the edge of the patio and the fence Jim was currently leaning against, there was nothing

...