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While shopping for an unsustainable amount of vegetables that will likely wilt away in the crisper, a stressed out local man has today found a moment peace in his chaotic schedule.

The jumpy father-of-two feels a warm wave of folktronica dream pop wash over him as he coasts a trolley down the aisles of his local multinational supermarket.

For brief moment in time, Billy Crighton (36) finds himself free of the Monday horrors that usually come with a weekend as large as the one he’s had.

With the sounds of 1999 sweeping through the shopping centre, a weekend worth of crying babies and a few too many beers that were put away in commemoration of the pointy of the season for his favourite three codes of professional football soon becomes a distant memory.

Billy says he not a big music guy by any means, but Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong has this effect on him, not matter where he hears her music. This time it’s through the supermarket radio.

Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, better known by her stage name Dido, is an English singer and songwriter who attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999). The record-breaking album including hit singles such as “Here with Me” and “Thank You”. The record sold over 21 million copies worldwide and was sampled by Eminem in his iconic murder-suicide ballad ‘Stan’.

However, for a man only just finding half an hour to himself to do the groceries after a weekend of dirty nappies and unnecessarily late nights, the rendition of ‘Thank You’ on the in-store radio playlist is very much providing Billy with a Dido kind of moment, not a Slim Shady moment.

“And even if my house falls down now, I wouldn’t have a clue

Because you’re near me and” mouths Billy as he strolls through the confectionaries aisle and decides to purchase a half kilogram of hazelnut spread for no reason.

“I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life

Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life”