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Coming Clean
OK, so I did it. I swallowed my resistance and let the ART come and film me, and my tummy. If you've read the previous entries on here I've been a bit scathing. I've also been on the periphery of this very programme before. Boy, but it was different in those days. This time it was all very...
30/07/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

Instagram annoying the hell out of me today rant
  Grumpy today: made two enquiries on instagram that came to nought and set me thinking about my experience on there. Its not great. I mean I love it because its so visual, but that's as a poster.   As a reader of others posts I'm not doing so well. I've had three enquiries completely igno...
05/07/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

Another ticked off rant
Auctioneers ticks are getting on my nerves (again) this morning. Every time someone buys something at the lower end or over the top of the estimate the boy in charge of the gavel says “well bought”. To which my inner voice simply replies “bad estimate”. Anyway. Long sigh. Th...
15/05/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

Coming ready or not
Ummmm. Ahhhh. Should I or not? Write this?  -o0O0o- I'm nervous of the end of lockdown. It feels as if it is being pushed through by the media, mainly print, but all outlets, because their ad revenue is markedly down and they are struggling. So they want to put the world back six weeks and te...
08/05/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

Its that lockdown post
   I feel the pressure. I wish I could say I feel the popular demand, but my reader has not been inundating me with postcards (have you Mrs Trellis?) so I can't claim that. But I do see that nearly everyone is posting about Lockdown and its my turn. I am notorious for following a trend lon...
28/04/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

What a Charlie
Why? On Sunday next I officially get the keys to my new (to me) shop. And you may well ask why.It's my second go at a shop. The last one I had was in a sleepy lane way back behind the back of beyond. Its issues had issues. The neighbours were tricky, trading as they did based on stock scavenged...
20/02/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

Maybe it is a lesson
One day, a man bought something and on looking through his change saw a Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit 50p piece.“Ohhh," he thought, “I've heard those are worth a bob or two” so he rushed home and put it on eBay for £10.  Meanwhile someone else had found they had exac...
18/02/2020 Posted by Paul Hardy

All Change
   The speed has bemused even me.   There I was at a fair seeing myself as a dealer who loaded and unloaded his stock into his (very un)trusty old van several times a month and hit the road. Just like I did only last weekend.    And now here I am a dealer who doesn...
08/08/2019 Posted by Paul Hardy

Unfaired out
  So that's me done with fairs for a bit. Cancelled any and everything for the next two months, perhaps for longer. In fact, I have no actual bookings in place, so any I go to will be ad-hoc.   And while I'm going to keep one eye on the political situation (which I hold accountable), I'm g...
05/08/2019 Posted by Paul Hardy

An admission
   I've chosen this, my blog, on which to come out. Its taken me a long time, but the pressure is building and I think its time I admitted everything. OK. I know its trendy at the moment to open up, but I can guarantee when I get around to doing something it is no longer trendy, or ev...
25/05/2019 Posted by Paul Hardy

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