I called into our new place tonight, peered through the windows to see what the curtain situation was...all windows have either blinds or curtains.
Our buyers are coming tomorrow morning so I needed to see if we needed any temporary curtains to take with us. I plan to leave all curtains if they want them...they can keep them until they redo each room to their taste.
This is our hardware store in Great Eccleston.
You can honestly buy anything from sewing cotton to rat poison, a real asset to the village!
Three good things:
1. The road was quiet so I was able to stand opposite the shop & get the whole front in, just in time before the bus came round the corner!
2. I’ve had a good clear out of several drawers.
3. Ginger & honey yoghurt.
What a treasure to have handy.. pleased to hear everything is progressing.. Ginger and honey yogurt sounds yum.. I have just been given a ginger balm to help with nausea it smells good enough to eat..
What a wonderful hard-wear store - you have your Alf's and I am used to Charlie's - when I was a child he had a store in Newtown Powys and I used to go there with my dad . since those days the emporium has expanded and now has many stores in mid Wales and now in Shrewsbury . Of course the stores now are more sophisticated !! That ginger and honey sounds delicious - I am very fond of anything ginger !!
@julzmaioro@beryl M&S Ginger & Honey yoghurt, my favourite! I treat myself now & again!
Ginger is very good for sickness too So hope it’s good for you Julz....Hope it helps.
This looks positively exotic, great place for a browse. I've been absent for a while so have missed all the news re your move. So pleased that it is now going ahead.
Oh I love shops like this. We used to have a similar shop near us when I was a child. I have no idea who the owners were because it was always known as 'The Pot Shop'. I think it was because you could buy one plate, one mug, one bowl etc. That shop sold everything too just like yours. I used to love Mum sending me there to buy, gardening gloves, a mop handle, a pudding bowl etc. The smells in the shop were so interesting.
@onewing Fascinating aren’t they Babs...no heating on in the winter either, they have a warm room at the back but come out to serve all muffled up! Hardy folk!
That’s amazing! I remember queuing in the small hardware shop in Tardy Gate in Preston when I was small. It was a counter with a tardis at the back and you could buy 3 screws if that’s all you wanted. I can remember there was always an air of tension and found out much later that the brothers who owns it had fallen out and didn’t speak to each other and had half the tardis each. If you queued up and got the half who’d run out of what you wanted it was hard luck!
What a great asset to your community! Nice that it is close. How are you feeling about moving? Are you moving to a new community? We "mention moving" every now and then, but have not gone much beyond that. Our move would definitely be to a new community about 150 miles away. Not sure I'm ready for that.
@thewatersphotos No we are only moving less than a mile away... earner the village but we love it here & couldn't face a new area. My husband hasn’t moved beyond a radius of a it eight miles all of his 83 years of living & that only three times! We have been to the other side if the world several times but like to live in our area!
Big step but this house is far too big for us!
We have one of those called 'Cassie's' - he sells everything, And when I was a young girl, there was a shop at the other end of the village called 'Jeanie A'things' because she sold 'a'thing'!I love these types of shops.
@jamibann They are invaluable but not so many around now but it’s a treasure! Must take a photo from inside next time I’m inside though it will be difficult as it’s quite dark with partitions separation each section...a real all Aladins cave.
Ginger is very good for sickness too So hope it’s good for you Julz....Hope it helps.
Big step but this house is far too big for us!