Yesterday, on our way to the Grand, we saw two slightly odd shops. The first was a sex shop.
Nothing odd in that, other than what it said in the window…
(Well, it made me smile…)
The other shop was a very smart looking bookshop called Wesley Owen. This, I rapidly discovered was a Christian Bookshop, although it looked like a cross between Borders and HMV (apart from the stock, of course!) Traditionally, most British Christian bookshops were run by little old ladies at the SPCK (the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) but it seems that there has been some form of coup and many of them have recently closed. (Lots of info over at Dave Walker’s Cartoon Blog).
There was a little bit of snow yesterday morning but it had mostly cleared by lunchtime. Today, there was a lot of snow, so much that David wanted to go out and play in it. His idea of fun was to make a snowball, throw it in the air and then head it. In Newcastle, we used to call people that did that sort of thing heed-the-baalers.
He didn’t try it with this one though!
Straight into the focus.
Comment by jameshigham — March 24, 2008 @ 6:56 am
Ha I found this funny, made me laugh
On the snow, am envious.
Comment by nunyaa — March 24, 2008 @ 7:29 am
Made me smile too
I am jealous you had SNOW!!!
Comment by CherryPie — March 24, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
A tad offensive?
Comment by Jeremy Jacobs — March 24, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Still giggling! We have hail here! Btw, Ian, every time I
visit your blog IE decides to close. Then I come back and
it’s OK the second time. Any idea why? Buona Pasqua from
Sicily - a bit late!
Comment by Welshcakes Limoncello — March 24, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
Very good. I thought this was a family blog.
Comment by Colin Campbell — March 24, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
JJ- you were spamtrapped again, hence the delay. You don’t say what you found a tad offensive, I found the religious bookshop the most uncomfortable experience that day.
WL- no idea on IE, it doesn’t do it for me. (I thought I’d replied on this already, obviously not).
CC-This blog features a family, as does yours. It isn’t necessarily intended for one though, the Internet is for “Consenting Adults”.
Comment by Shades — March 26, 2008 @ 3:59 pm