ABSTRACT
Amongst the forms of relating to place, one that remains common enough yet seemingly overlooked by the social sciences is ‘the regular’ (though see, Morgan 2009: 70–72). While it is the name for a repetitive, definite and predictable pattern of things happening or being positioned, it is the regular, as one of the possible forms of relating to a place, that I want to concentrate on here. The regular is the person that goes to the same place recurrently. That there are regulars for shops, bars, cafes, sports clubs, parks and all manner of other places points towards the commonality of this figure. It is not an official, legal or other institutionally defined role and that perhaps begins to explain why it has not engendered much inquiry into its nature. Yet these are persons who are of significance both to the custodians of those places and to other regulars in those places.
