Maybe there is an alternative to bags.

What were they thinking? Are these the new hero products?

I knew that I wanted to have our new shop on Golborne road from about a year ago - it's such a great mix of people and shops and feels so busy all the time. We opened a week ago and all the neighbours have been in to introduce themselves and give their opinions as to whether we're needed there or not. Mostly it's been super friendly and we're looking forward to making some great friends.

Yesterday I took a walk with Leila to look at the food on offer - she was in charge, and purposefully marched into each place and pointed out the stuff she loved and the things I might have missed. Here are a few of the things we saw, all displayed in such a way as to get us properly excited. I bought these for Hamish, hope they fix his throat.

At the Garage.......

On a road that could hardly be more bleak are these lovely blue gates. Every time I see them I take another photo.

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I am sorry, I have been a hopeless blogger and haven't added anything for 2 months.(sorry Lucy and Liza) On top of that I've found that my last post was wrongly named as being in New Orleans so I just had to go there to see for myself. Quite right, I didn't find any dancing, not like that any way, but I found lots more to show so here is one little story. The Backstreet Museum in the Treme district was very photogenic and interesting.[slideshow id=3]

In the rain in New Orleans - I think.

My local mini cab office is really making a good job of their sign writing, I love this.

The writing in an alley way in Paris is in a font I'd like to use.

same every year, but always amazing. Two totally different colour selections withing a few feet of each other in Hampstead.

It's a shame we've largely lost the patter that used to go with markets, even if it did bend the truth or exaggerate the benefits of the products.