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If anyone is to blame it is Charles
Welcome to the very first blog on this site I've been thinking about what to start with, and I have come to the conclusion that I ought to explain myself. I hope you are the patient type because I'm probably going to take the long way round. After all, why waste a few ...
08/04/2016
Posted by Paul Hardy
You Selling Yours To Me
One of my hopes is that by being in a bricks and mortar shop I will get more people offering to sell me stuff. And I do. People bring me stuff with increasing frequency. But the disappointment is that much (nearly all) of it is what one might politely term 'unsuitable', But I don't leave people...
23/04/2016
Posted by Paul Hardy
One of those days
There's a meme (is that too old-fashioned a phrase?) doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook along the lines of "I find it, clean it, research it, mend it, insure it, collect it....etc"...it goes on a bit, but ends up "...and you want me to take how much?!" It came to mi...
09/05/2016
Posted by Paul Hardy
A tear for the past
I'm in the process of finally clearing out my little shop. I started there in November 2015, traded through 2016 and then, in the autumn of that year added a few fairs back into the mix. My plan had been to do some of both. The footfall in the village is minescule, almost immeasurable, s...
14/07/2017
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
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
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