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  • April 10, 2020

    8th April 2020

    I Need To Get This Off My Chest!

    Harry The Courier Boy.
    The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment have deemed him an essential worker
     
    I have just asked my daughter, Francesca, (who's in Melbourne) as to the best way of writing this newsletter. Should I be very diplomatic and rather 'vanilla' or stay true to form and be rather opinionated and outspoken?  Her reply was, 'Hmm that's a tricky one...maybe somewhere in the middle.' There does come a time, when, as a parent, you realise your children are actually way more sensible than you,  and with that in mind I will ' play this one down the middle.' 
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  • April 10, 2020

    29th March 2020

    Working from home ain't all it's cracked up to be...

    My co workers aren't knitters!
     

    The shop security guard.
     
     Our shop and online store are now fully closed down and I've left Old Bear on security duty. You can never be too careful, I wouldn't want desperate knitters  looting the store! 
    On a serious note, I want to say a massive 'thank you' to all of you who came into the shop, and those who shopped online, over the last week or so. I guess we all had a gut feeling that we were heading for a lock down, and an emergency ration of knitting wool would definitely be required.
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