I'm rather taken with Geoffrey, a friendly giraffe used to promote Toys R Us since 1965. I'm even more taken with his bench inside W H Smith in Chippenham. Prior to the chain's sale earlier this year, it was agreed that certain stores would also have a Toys R Us section within them. Geoffrey's bench marks the transition from one of our traditional High Street retailers into something more fun and entertaining, though sadly rather empty when I took this photo. At some point the name W H Smith will morph into its new owner's chosen rebrand name, T G Jones* - rather bland in my opinion which appears to have been made up, unlike the original name which refers to the company's original founder Henry Walton Smith and reaches back to the year 1792. * = it has already in nearby Malmesbury, though they have yet to erase the etched W H Smith from the glass doors. They seem to have retained the corporate blue colour on the shopfront too, for now at least. UPDATE - it tur...
You can still see green in both of them so that's makes them just squelchy but not waterlogged!
ReplyDeleteHi Flighty,
ReplyDeleteVery squelchy indeed and you can hear the water running through the soil!
I've stopped parking the car by my plot as I don't want to repeat the experience of getting stuck up there again. Luckily there's a gravelled area by the allotment gate, then a muddy plodge along to my plot...