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Always happy to come home x

We had a truly lovely, relaxing holiday with great company but I must be slightly weird as I always get butterflies about going home, especially when I haven’t seen the girls for two weeks. It wasn’t a lively place of a night so some nights, we were in bed

NewYork ?NewYork ?

On arriving in NewYork, we found our apartment to be perfectly located but rather snug so we dropped off our luggage and went out on the town ! Thankfully, my lovely sister in law, Charlotte has been about 8 times before so, she knows all the cool places to

When will I ever learn !

Will I ever learn !?! Arranging a ? Halloween ? party ? to raise funds for Rochester United football club, two days before going on holiday, was not one of my best ideas ?? for either my sanity or marriage lol but what a great night we had ! It

I have taken the door off the van

ME AND VANS HAVE CLASHED AND CRASHED WE HAVE A LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP I had no choice right from when I first passed my test, that was my only means of transport and I quiet honestly, scared myself shitless, often just closing my eyes and squeezing through gaps! Over

Jane in the box

After fainting with excitement and making friends with all the ladies in the office of our new suppliers I, with a little bit of help from Matt, nearly managed to get us bared for life! There was one lady, Jean who was a no nonsense, don’t smile, don’t small

The Singing Recovery Man

Oh the excitement, I couldn’t even wait to get out of the carpark before getting my head in the box and have a real good rummage at our first box of catalogue stock. I needed to know if we had bought a bum box. —————————–oOo—————————— On each garment there

I like starting fires

We needed to find suppliers of stock as buying from Wendy, the market trader, was in no way ideal. Firstly, understandably, she didn’t want us buying all her new in, best bits of stock before all of her own regular customers had seen it. Obviously, she needed to keep

Dad what should I do ?

My dad loved a list he would always say sit down and list the pros and cons. And then generally, like most men, procrastinate for a few hours and let my mum decide for him lol. I, over the years, have passed this onto the girls. I love their

Do I stay or do I go ?

I loved working in Central London. Covent Garden was just such a mixing pot of nationalities, cultures, religions and generally interesting, funky, fascinating, strange characters. Oh, and did I mention the fashion I just loved it. It was everywhere, I loved that people could be whacky and different

Brown noser Jane

So, I thought I knew the direction my future was going in but that quickly went out the window, the moment I started to imagine Matt, trying to buy stock for his new business, with out little old bossy me!!! ——0Oo—— I had managed to pass my A level

A new direction for Matt

At seventeen, Matt was working for his dad selling kitchens and I was working up in London doing a YTS in graphic design, I absolutely loved it. In my lunch hour, on college days, I would fly up and down Leather Lane buying bits and then selling them to

Yesteryear Happy Memories

What a difference a few decades makes when your buying and selling. When we started out over three decades ago, before the markets, we tried to make ago of party plan. We would turn up with a rail of stock and hope the hostess had bothered to invite someone.