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Here comes The Sun |
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Interesting as the weather has been, it is great to see familiar scenes once again bathed in sunshine as the evenings draw out and the precipitation heads off into the Atlantic. Here in Larkhall there are a few more people out and about and there seem to to be more smiling faces about the place. Maybe this is the year I attemp to paint the shop's external woodwork into chocolate and cream, and I really must get another hanging sign made afterthe last one expired in the winds and rain of last year. Just as I was contemplating this Seth from upstair came in to the shop to explain that they were going to have a bit more work done on their flat and entrance and that there would be some necessary noise. No problem from my point of view, the kango hammering will hopefully happen on a Monday when I am closed and who wants to stand in the way of improvements to this wacky property anyway - it needs all the help it can get! Seth very kindly voluteered that he might also extend the work to tidy up around my doorway and by the following evening improvements were already in hand as this picture shows.....
* My very pleasant neighbours, Seth, Gemma and their charming children Nell and Jimmy who all live above the shop. |
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New Postcards
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Not long after I started this this little business back in 1994 or thereabouts, my friend Peter Barnfield let me use a lovely photograph he had taken of Limpley Stoke Station for use as a postcard. Full of optimism I had 5000 printed, which with the benefit of hindsight was probably about 4000 too many. Many of you will be familiar with the image as I use them more or less as compliments slips when I send out orders to my customers. Well, all these years later I am running out, so have decided to produce a few new postcards that I can use in the same way. Peter has very kindly provided me with two images for the purpose, and one of them is rather alarming...
The conversation at home went a bit like this. Me: Look what I bought in The Gap - it was only £7.99! There was a whole rack of them - it would have been silly not to.... Her: Please tell me you didn't wear that in the shop.... Never mind! From your point of view there are three other images and you might just get lucky..... |
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Simon Castens |
