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With the help of aerial photographs, diagrams and spreadsheets, Gareth Wild completes his ‘Magnum Opus’ in six years (and three cars)

UK man beats boredom by parking in every spot at local supermarket 28 Apr, 2021 07:49 PM 5 minutes to read The man said he found enjoyment in the banal. Photo / File Daily Telegraph UK By: Hayley Dixon He describes it as his "Magnum Opus", a quest containing moments of joy comparable to the birth of his first child. It has taken him six years, but UK man Gareth Wild has completed his local supermarket car park. The bored shopper has painstakingly used a map and spreadsheets to ensure that he ha...

A bored shopper went on a six-year quest to park in all 211 bays of his Bromley supermarket car park - using a map and spreadsheet to track his progress. Gareth Wild began his project, which started in 2015, as a way of making the weekly shop more interesting. Now the dad-of-two has left his car in every single space in the car park at Sainsburys in the centre of Bromley. To make it easy for me to identify which space I was parking in I assigned each ‘block’ a letter and within ea...

Advertisement A bored shopper has completed a six-year quest to park in all 211 bays of his local supermarket car park - using a map and spreadsheet to track his progress. Married father-of-two Gareth Wild began his project as a way of making the weekly shop more interesting - and has now left his car in every single space in the car park at the Sainsburys store in Bromley, South East London. The production director took to Twitter to reveal the completion of his unusual mission - including di...