Continuing our occasional series on shops and shopping, Brit takes us to a rather unusual 'garden centre'... The best shop in the Bristol area, and by extension the world, is Chief Trading Post, in Oldland Common. It is, I suppose, a Garden Centre; but Chief Trading Post is a ‘Garden Centre’ ... Read More...
Dabblemongery
Shops, shopping and shopkeeping.
Today we start a new occasional series on shopping, shops and shopkeeping. I have unreasonably sentimental feelings about ironmongery. Or at least I thought they were unreasonable. As kids in South Wales my brother and I used to collect small, pearl-handled penknives, the sort you might use to scrape out a pipe ... Read More...