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...
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ReplyDeleteTee hee - there's even less of them left now ;)
ReplyDeleteHow do you store your apples? We use an old fridge which seems to work well. Just finishing ours too.
ReplyDeleteThis year I've kept them on the tree for as long as possible. In other years I've wrapped each Apple in newspaper and stored them on shallow trays I bought for £1 each when our Littlewoods closed.
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