Strange shops and big balls
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!
